Album Reviews

LINK: https://orcd.co/cernybroslftgl 2019 has been a huge year for artists in Americana, but few in the movement have been enjoying the buzz that The Cerny Brothers have. While The Cernys aren’t a straight-up Americana crew, they’ve got an old fashioned, roots rock-inspired sound in songs like “Night on the Town,” …

Galloping grooves. Massive synth melodies. Basslines that threaten us with their physicality while embedding a subtle, textured emotionality into the rhythm. Drums that devastate, guitars saturated in a guttural flange, vocals that are velvet-soft but rife with a psychedelic bend that will haunt us long after their presence is no …

URL: https://www.alexiskeegan.com/instagram In the last few of years, Alexis Keegan has turned out some soul-stirring material ranging from the freewheeling “Gospel” to the holiday harmonies of “It’s Christmas Everywhere” and a rollicking indie folk/pop hit in “Everything,” and this April she submits a lovely slice of R&B in the form …

A mischief-laden groove sparks the title track in White Owl Red’s Existential Frontiers to life, and on the whim of this romping rhythm, we enter the a realm of melodic Americana that is as classic as apple pie and yet still as refreshing as any of the new movements in popular …

URL: https://littlegalaxiesband.com/ A rollicking rhythm and a decidedly swanky string play are all that it takes for Little Galaxies to entice us into the melodic web of songcraft that is their new single “It’s Natural.” The guitars patiently strut across the first few bars in the song with a swagger …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TheSweetKill/ The Sweet Kill flanks paralyzing industrial grooves with lush melodicism of the most erudite variety in his latest release, the stunning Love & Death, a six-song extended play that presents listeners with a sleekly-mixed collection of dirges and devastatingly cathartic electro-power ballads alike. In songs like the brooding …

Pop power trio Cynister are stirring up a storm of attention this spring with their new single “No Man,” and it doesn’t take much more than a cursory listening session with the bruising electronic jam to understand precisely why. Cynister uses a blushing bassline to frame some of the fiercest …

2019 has been producing some horrific hybrids and painfully mundane melodic rock, and I think that is the main reason why Safe as Houses’ “Lucky Lucky” (from the album Lucky Lucky) is the breath of fresh air that so many critics are describing it as this month. Fashioned like a …

More than any other performers in the country, Canadian singer/songwriters have been all the rage this spring, and though some of my peers might be inclined to disagree with me, I don’t think that Whitebeard fits the conventional profile of his peers in this movement. While his new single “Paris” …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Jon-Dowling-123571992875/ Music is one of the most expressive forms of communication known to humankind, as it allows us to translate emotions that words simply cannot convey on their own, and in Jon Dowling’s “Don’t Wanna Own the World,” the rising indie star shares the intimate relationship that he has …

URL: https://www.brooksforsyth.com/ Pulsating strings give way to muscular strands of melancholic melody in “So Much Beyond Us.” A slow-churning percussion opens up the door to a heroic swing in “Anna Lee.” “Girl from Caroline” aches with all of the yearning that a disheveled heart holds so close as it tries …

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/2k05vn2KVMGeuTKhQeLEvL?si=H8QproQXTEOv8pkmw6h57Q If you’ve been following indie pop lately, it’s more than likely that you’ve already heard about the guy I’m reviewing today. Jerad Finck, the pop singer who wowed us over the holidays with his ornate ballad “White Christmas” is back this spring with an all new single titled …