Album Reviews

Many listeners admire and relish when an artist’s work draws deep and unambiguously from their personal life. Others recoil. It is safe to assume, after hearing Ben Bostick’s new album Grown Up Love, more will embrace this collection rather than reject it. Timeless truths and experiences will sustain a creative work …

Alternative singer/songwriter history is certainly colorful and filled with unique personalities, and in his new album Florescence, the player known simply as Timberline throws his own stylish hat into the fold and produces what could be one of the best records of its kind to debut in the last couple of …

It’s an interesting time for post-rock, and I don’t think you need to look much further than the new album The Fury of Lullabies by emerging heavy music titans Gorazde to know exactly what I’m talking about. Although not a straight post-rock effort in the way of Pelican, the atmospheric, ambient-influenced elements …

Songwriters Michael “The Metropolitan Cowboy” Coleman in collaboration with long time See Your Shadow partner J. Richard Murray, has released the highly-anticipated track, “Showdown.” The result of a songwriting completion where the two had one day to write a track and present it to a panel of judges. Although, the …

With a gently rollicking beat and guitars that flank the lead vocal leaving only the most melodic points of interest in the song at the forefront of the master mix, it would be accurate to say that the new single and music video “Still” by Burn the Ballroom has pop appeal. There’s …

With about 6 months since the release of Something Worth Remembering, Gary Pratt is enjoying the success that comes with a great album. For those unfamiliar with this Rockin’ Country gem, Something Worth Remembering is an eleven-song follow-up to the highly acclaimed Angels In The Snow album released with Dawn …

 Denver, Colorado’s Jeffery Dallet isn’t breaking new musical ground with his work, but polished and high quality songwriting always has a seat at my table. The Dallet Band’s latest collection Acid Tongue is a nine track outing and the quartet’s fifth release since May 2018. Dallet’s considerable skills are undimmed by the …

Talitha Jae has an expressive, warm, inviting voice that lends itself well to her bluesy indie pop sound. The Queensland, Australia-based singer/songwriter recently released her debut EP, “Spilt T,” which showcases both her vocals and her strong songwriting ability. Her music has been referred to as “the feels,” and it …

Abrasive and a little affectionate at the same time, the rhythmic dispatch of the synths in Matthew J Van Howe’s “Reborn the Warrior” is a feature listeners should expect to get a lot of in the new album Legend of the Galactic Princess this summer, but it’s far from the lone …

Emo and pop-punk aesthetics have been coming back in a big way this year, and although she was barely a few years old at the height of both genres’ popularity in the mid-2000s, singer/songwriter Ally Eandi takes great influence from the two schools in her new single “Home” this summer. …

Pulsating with a groove distinctive of slow, clubby jazz but emitting a harmony more akin to something on the pop end of the spectrum, there’s hybridity to the initial bars we make contact with in “Any Moment” by Le Sonic that is impossible to ignore. In this track, which features …

Aching with a tension that only gets stronger as we press on in the track, the beat that immediately welcomes us into the crushing “Eme Jota” is as much a centerpiece of the song as it is a theme in Monsieur Job’s new album Música Para Mi Madre. Although there’s little …