Melodies like laser beams assault us from every angle in “Down.” They smack us with enormous basslines in “Beef in D Minor,” psychedelic grooves in “Dream Valley” and fierce, cutting harmonies in “Venus Feels Like That.” Traditional EDM arrangements are skewed with contemporary experimentations in “Freaks and Lovers” and “New …
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Denver’s And The Black Feathers bring back the soulful garage sounds of bands like Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels on their EP – Sociallusions. And it’s all about what you’d expect from a title involving social solutions, which positively helps as much as music can to cope with the …
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“Good Lookin’” opens The Criticals’ debut EP Mimosa Hygiene with rock muscle as tight as the crack of a whip and clipped inspired lyrics conveying much despite their abbreviated structure. The Criticals are obviously focusing on creating visceral and intelligent rock music that dispenses with the genre’s usual clichés and the opener …
Read More »The Bobbleheads’ “Joey”
We look upon a messy living room in the first few frames of the new video for The Bobbleheads’ “Joey,” eventually finding the eponymous Joey spread out on the couch with that dreaded, grimacing look of unemployment painted on his face. His girlfriend’s had it with his lack of initiative, …
Read More »Sarah Lee Langford’s Two Hearted Rounder
A ghostly harmony comes sliding out of the silence in the title track of Sarah Lee Langford’s Two Hearted Rounder as though it were rising from the ashes of a long-forgotten American songbook. Spackled in twang and saturated with self-aware lyrics from Ms. Langford, “Two Hearted Rounder” sets the tone for the …
Read More »Jeremy Rice and the Legendary Fist of Takinawa
Jeremy Rice’s latest release Jeremy Rice and the Legendary Fist of Takinawa opens with the pensive mid-tempo march of “Johnny Rogers”. It’s an excellent opening curtain for the release highlighting the textured manner of Rice’s compositional talents and his nasal yet expressive vocals. There’s no other track on the album that’s …
Read More »Single Review: White Owl Red – “Working Class Heroes”
“I ain’t tryin’ to start a class war” pleads Josef McManus, the mastermind behind White Owl Red, in the new single “Working Class Heroes,” the latest release from his critically acclaimed solo project. White Owl Red gets back to the basics of red, white and blue melodies adorned with smart, …
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Some people refer to alternative rock as the last great revolution in the rock genre but we are far away from its birth in the late 80’s-early 90’s. Despite being two decades plus on from those halcyon days, young musicians of every ilk are still picking up guitars and turning …
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The beats that adorn every stitch of audio we find in the Toronto Tabla Ensemble’s “Dream Symposium” are exotic to no end, but their most endearing qualities come from their sensuous arrangement and not from the worldly stylization of their tone. Right out of the gate, we’re hypnotized by the …
Read More »Single Review: Caroline Blind – “God Damn the Sun”
A vivacious acoustic guitar springs the first few chords of Caroline Blind’s “God Damn the Sun” to life with an opulent melodicism that will become all the more powerful as we press on in this excellent cover of the Swans song of the same name. Blind begins to sing, and …
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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 …
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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 …
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