Album Reviews

One part hip-hop ballad, another part progressive R&B experiment, Christopher Watson’s “Truth Is” isn’t exactly the easiest of singles to categorize, but when taking a look at its music video, there’s no denying that its composer has a very stylish and appealing persona no matter what you call his sound. …

Brooding isn’t a word that I would normally whip out to describe a synth part in any album, but in the case of Paul Jacks’ “Into the Silence” and the other nine songs found on Black Jackal, no other will do. In Black Jackal, Paul Jacks is seeking to change how people …

Getting started with The Dead Daisies’ “Holy Ground (Shake the Memory)” isn’t that much different than playing any of the other single/video combos they’ve released since first getting together just a little while ago; the biggest difference, I suppose, is how quickly things evolve into brilliant bedlam for the players …

Money. Swagger. A total disinterest in the stress of 2020. These are the themes of GoodLook’s “Rich Dance” music video, but beyond its cosmetics, this video is sporting a soundtrack that is enough to make anyone feel like a millionaire at the right volume. GoodLook is entering the market at …

Sixstrings is the project of Jose Salvador (Barcelona, 1988), whose first album ‘Cries of the Soul’ was released on January 14, 2019 with excellent reviews in Powerplay Magazine and Fireworks Rock&Metal Magazine UK, and various specialized media and online radios. This album was composed, recorded, produced and mixed by himself. Before …

Exceedingly minimalistic and rural in spirit – yet not quite devoid of the polished tonality commonly associated with mainstream pop – there is nothing but purity to behold in the performance Grey DeLisle gives in her new single “O Holy Night” and its companion video. Released just in time for …

Five minutes is a rather long running time in most of the contemporary hip-hop that I listen to, but in the case of Neff Nuffsed’s “Stranger Things,” this all-new single doesn’t feel like a bloated document at all. Joined by Mr L-BO and Mic B, Neff Nuffsed launches into an …

Newcomers Danny Artuso and Victor Nesrallah are already making waves. Their musical collaboration has a ring of something distinctively modern and progressive in an otherwise old-school, red state sort of medium. There’s a noteworthy exoticism that underscores each song on the album, be it certain lyrical, musical, or other creative …

Riddled with textured but far too streamlined to allow for us to get caught up in its many details, “Culture War” wasn’t designed for the wallflowers or music snobs – it was written for the people, and Paul Maged is giving it to us in all of its uncut, ferocious …

Drifting through the stratosphere and coming across shapes and symbolism of great but ultimately unknown origin is something I would expect in a journey through the deepest parts of outer space, and in the new music videos for Sonarpilot’s “The Last Machine” and “Cathedral,” we’re taken on this adventure both …

There’s a passion just waiting to come pouring from the speakers at the onset of Kamoken’s new single “Higher Love” with Malou Beauvoir, and while the song was recorded decades ago by Steve Winwood to enormous success, at no point does this performance sound unoriginal. We’re met with a haunting …

Crashing into existence and pummeling just about everything within reach with as furious a kick from the percussion as can be mustered from inside of a recording studio, Lost Romance’s “Heart on a Wire” isn’t the sort of single that leaves us wondering what its performers’ ultimate goal in life …