Album Reviews

Colorado’s Rich Hall and Portugal’s Pedro Almeida have released “Bring Me Peace.” It’s the follow-up to their airplay chart single, “Fear No Evil.” “The song is mid-tempo, edgy and liberating. It is extremely radio-friendly, and its lyrics are pure poetry. **** ” – Markos Papadatos, Digital Journal “They managed to …

Rob Equiza is a Filipino singer-songwriter from Calbayog City, Samar. Although he has been writing, recording, and producing his own music since 2007, only recently has he made it available on major streaming platforms as of last year. Equiza’s sound was developed through various endeavors, including his home-based alternative folk …

Creatures of the Night (C.O.N) brings you a brand new single featuring C.O.N’s Big Loots and a upcoming artist from the city of TDOT named SHOOTER SHANE from the Westside of the Toronto city. This banging new single has a catchy chorus and grimy bounce, to put you in a …

Swigga Geovanni’s new single “DMLY (Daddy Mi Love You)” opens with a smattering of chiming guitar seemingly broadcast through a transistor radio before expanding in full. There is a strong hip hop influence present from the first, but it runs parallel with a rousing reggae-like delivery in Geovanni’s voice. Despite …

Like a long-legged spider slowly creeping out of the shadows, the strings that greet us at the start of “Luv U Girl,” the first single from Jon Patrick Walker’s new record Welcome to the Edge Times, are hypnotizing and yet subtly threatening. Over the next ninety seconds of play, we’ll become …

I am a fan of the early 80’s European/British New Wave bands that TLA seem to be aping with their EP release New Language so this brief release has an early hold on me. Subsequent listens reveal the depth of the material this unit has put together for this EP and, as …

Produced by the group’s bassist Mike Morello, Ultra Black is the follow up to American Grim’s full length debut Freakshow. Throughout the thirteen tracks, lead singer Ryan Grim displays a talent for finding hooks. One of the first things that stuck out to me is there are a lot more …

When you think of new age music, you won’t be too far from it if a sci-fi movie comes to mind and its instrument and synthwave-filled soundtrack. That is why Forest Robots’ style is so unique. As with their other albums, this brainchild of Francisco Dominguez is in his own …

In Manuel Aspidi’s latest single, “Let out This Light,” the acclaimed Tuscan vocalist incorporates colorful influences into what is inarguably an already iconic sound. At the onset of the song, a gentle piano melody awakens the treasure chest of tones that will form a sonic backdrop for Aspidi’s magnetizing vocal, …

Pulsating grooves are woven into an elegant swing in “Hush Hush,” and though they render a hard rock rhythm into something far more balladic in nature than what we hear in “Only American in the Room,” the emotion in the former song is as obvious and transcendent as it is …

Randi Fay is a multigenre singer/songwriter based in Green Bay, Wisconson. Initially, Fay held an extensive career in veterinary medicine before a debilitating hand injury would force her out of it in 2001. A decade later, after regaining her momentum by way of non-profit work, music fast became one of …

The harmonies float as high as the heavens can take them in “Wait Wait Wait Wait Wait for Me,” and while Streaking in Tongues stir up a similarly transcendent vibe in the Harry Nilsson-reminiscent “Inside out and on My Ass,” they’re no less a captivating gem as they are in …