Album Reviews

The Sweet Kill have been setting 2019 on fire with their one of a kind beats and sensationally sharp electronic pop melodies, but in the shocking and seductive new video for their single “Night Terror Creeper,” they issue what is perhaps their most haunting work of art yet. Brilliantly directed …

  Colors fusing together just as quickly as they spread apart into fine lines of light-drenched vitality. They mirror the beat of a distant percussive element, but at the same time they create a mood and an energy all their own. We are at once transported to another reality while …

The Cold Stares’ new album Ways is a varied and smoldering thirteen song collection jumping out of the speakers. Chris Tapp and Brian Mullins are a decade in to their time together under this banner and still sound every bit as invigorated with this new collection despite the miles and previous releases …

Flat River Band are releasing “Go Tell It On The Mountain” to radio. Songs from “Christmas Time” appeared in a 2018 movie with Duane Allen (Oak Ridge Boys). “Christmas Time’ is destined to be an American Christmas classic…this is everything Christmas should be all about: down-home simplicity, family, faith, and …

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 …