Album Review: Initial Mass “Bending Light”
Catastrophic bursts of percussive thunder are met with gargantuan basslines, strutting string melodies and a smoky lead vocal that will entrap anything that comes within its reach in Initial Mass ‘s Bending Light, an album that I find best described as a sonic journey with as many raging riffs as …
Read More »Album Review: Oliver Ray – Out Passed Nowhere
Out Passed Nowhere, the new album from Oliver Ray, starts off in with a subtle swagger in the string arrangement comprising “Ol’ Coyote,” one of the record’s star singles, and doesn’t hesitate to pile on the mammoth melodies, ever-so slowly, as it plods through its nine tenacious tracks. An achy …
Read More »EP Review: Deborah Berg – New Road Home
When you have so much experience in the music business like Deborah Berg has, it’s easy to repeat yourself or fall into a comfort zone of sorts where you don’t want to branch out, thus falling into a routine of conformity. In the case of the vast majority of artists …
Read More »Jas Frank & the Intoits release new Single/Video
URL: https://theintoits.com/ 2019 has been a really big year for Jas Frank & the Intoits, and to breakdown all of the buzz, you’ve got the start with the release of their official debut studio album, The Girl from Cherry Valley. In the rookie effort from this Croatian indie rock crew, …
Read More »Daniel Coloprisco’s Winter’s Song EP
Daniel Coloprisco’s Winter’s Song EP has been sending chills through the American underground since its release one month ago, and while it’s only a two-track extended play, it possesses a wealth of melodicism that is certain to please fans of classical music, adult contemporary and soft pop alike. Singer Jes …
Read More »The Cerny Brothers’ release Looking for the Good Land
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,” …
Read More »Album Review: Danny Worsnop – Shades Of Blue
Whilst most people know Danny Worsnop to front the metalcore band, Asking Alexandria, and some know his work with We Are Harlot, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that his solo work is also equally appreciated. What does is the genre that he decided to take on with his first …
Read More »Album Review: Caleb Hawley- Sad People
New York-based, Minneapolis-born singer, songwriter, and producer Caleb Hawley released his fifth full length album album titled Sad People on Friday. As described by Hawley himself, “It’s an album that depressed people can dance to.” His soul wrenching lyrics are deceivingly well paired with groovy bass lines, pop beats and …
Read More »Kingdom of Birds’ Release EP
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/kobbandtoronto/ A playful set of guitar strings waste no time before slicing their way through the darkness and clearing out a pocket of space for a honeysweet vocal to capture our focus with its endearing drawl in “Dotted Lines,” track one in Kingdom of Birds’ all-new extended play Glitz, …
Read More »Kanisha K Losing Game
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/track/2xX0LbETUirviOTOaRLC8y Piano keys gently awaken a textured vocal track from its slumber in the opening bars of “Losing Game,” the latest single from the one and only Kanisha K, but they’ll soon be joined by a rollicking string groove that will colorize every beat resonating from the drums. The …
Read More »Cleveland International Records
URL: www.clevelandinternational.com The black and white tonality of an old Alan Freed broadcast awakens the ocean of testosterone and melodic mayhem waiting to come undone in Ian Hunter’s “Cleveland Rocks,” the title track of the forthcoming compilation from Cleveland International Records, but the chills that it induces are only a …
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