“The band combines spacey elements with solid musicianship, and seems to bypass most of the stereotypical MBV studio trickery that plagues many shoegaze bands.”
Under the helm of seven-octave range vocalist, Claudio Milano, Italian multimedia art collective, NichelOdeon/InSonar, deliver yet another boundary-pushing statement, this time focusing on the aquatic world.
Influenced by the likes Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens, Benjamins dutifully follows in their footsteps while quietly carving out his own path.
A Canadian folk singer with some serious chutzpah. We really just wanted to use the word ‘chutzpah’.
But influence aside, this is 28 minutes of the finest skronk you will ever hear and that is the real reason to track this down.
On their newest album, DigiBites, release April 1st, these EDM influences are brought to the forefront more than ever before. It’s easy to say this is the most straight up dance record, while previous offerings showed a more prog-side to the genre.
New York songwriter Ambrosia Parsley returns after a hiatus with a porridge that is just right.
“Graveface Records (home of The Casket Girls and other great bands) in Savannah just released this split 12” vinyl on Record Store Day 2015. Dott is a band from Ireland and Night School (members of Whirr) hails from Northern California.”
Phil’s bio states that he is “too folky for the rockers and too rocky for the folkers”, but since putting together the Affiliates he’s had both feet firmly planted in the rock camp.
New Yorkers go back to basics on this new collection.
On their self titled debut, Koes Barat, Alan Bishop looks to honor the music of a band made of up entirely of Indonesian brothers called Koes Plus.
Nic Nassuet*is a singer/songwriter from Hollywood, and has just released his new gothic folk album, Eleutherios. There’s a strong air of 80’s gothic bands like *Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy throughout the album.
Shirley Inspired exposes the timelessness of Collins’ music and the traditions she served to test and sustain. The depth of each contribution speaks to her significance and signifies the room still left to explore within the realm of British traditional musics.
An American expat in Vienna turns out great modern punk music that owes to your parents’ record collection.
Denton, TX produces a quintet that is blending the lines between rock and pop on their fourth LP.
Instrumental South Central Pennsylvania quartet, Night, fully come into their own with a full-length that finally captures the textured atmospheres in their music.
The band is influenced by the likes of Matthew Sweet, The Posies, and other denizens of 90’s alternative/power pop, and a firm standing in Nashville country also augments the sound of Gretchen’s Wheel.
France’s bizarro garage rockers, The Slit Plasters, continue their campaign of psychosis with a new 7” that contains some of their best material to date.
Six years after the release of their third album, Paradise Square, Memphis-via-New York-based country/blues group, The Kropotkins, return with their fourth.
Los Angeles-based power trio, Lunar Electric, unleash their bombastic heavy rock with a four song EP that evokes classic rock without resorting to mere mimicry.
On their fifth studio album, Edmonton, Canada’s iVardensphere take their tribal industrial sound to new heights.
Another Scottish folk album? Really? Yup and this one is a doozy.
In 1985, The Apartments, from Brisbane, Australia, released an LP on Rough Trade that was heralded as an immediate classic. Remastered for the first time, this expanded reissue compiles that seminal LP with the group’s earliest singles and demo recordings for a comprehensive look at their origins.
Enigmatic songwriter, Connie Converse, composed a number of songs during the 1950s American folk revival in New York City that largely remained unheard before she became disenchanted and moved to Ann Arbor, MI in the early ’60s, where, in 1974, she wrote goodbye letters to friends and completely disappeared, whereabouts still unknown.
“This Swedish duo first captured my fancy with their “From Above” single, as sublime an example of dream pop as anything released in 2013. Imagine Air combined with Ennio Morricone, and you start to get an inkling of the musical vein these talented musicians are mining.”
Tabloid Tales will be released April 28th, and if you’re looking for an original, fun, and occasionally pensive soundtrack for your upcoming summer parties, I highly suggest checking this out.
A little more than a year after their stellar debut, Long Island’s A New Bug continue their foggy haze of hard psychedelia with a solid sophomore selection of songs.
The album is a visceral combination of punk and progressive rock, taking two genres that at one time were diametrically opposed to another in both ethics and style. But weirdly it works, sounding as if Television had more of an interest in King Crimson than the Ramones.
Although it’s not necessarily fresh, surprising, or brave, Kintsugi nevertheless seeps with real-life catharsis, understanding, and internationalization. It’s the best DCFC album around, but it proves that Death Cab for Cutie is probably still the best pop/rock band around.
Returning with an adventurous sophomore effort, Kentucky-based collective, Plastic Bubble, allow their unique psychedelic pop vision to grow into a fanfare of artistic melody.
Omnivore keeps rolling with a stellar unreleased recorded performance from music legend Dion.
Little Shells is the project of Brooklyn singer/songwriter Conchita Campos, and her new album, 5 Deep Under is a grand, tour de force of orchestral pop. Grand in the way they don’t make albums anymore.
Los Angeles trio Marriages revive the dark sludge of Robert Smith for modern audiences.
Riding upon their credo, “I don’t like my future,” the band deliver a heavy hitting, bluesy, and hedonistic rollercoaster ride. Their sound captures the darker side of 60’s garage rock from The Sonics to The Monks.
Watch as the self-titled debut from American Wrestlers help Chris define a whole new genre.
“This compilation reveals the roughness and edginess inherent in early music experiments in this genre, and also shows the punk influence on this San Francisco by way of LA group.”
Chloe’s melancholy singing and lyrics would be considered maudlin by even the likes of Morrissey, and the jangle of the guitars brings to mind a slight touch of Johnny Marr as well.
Born when Charles Bert of Math & Physics Club and Boat’s Dave Krain recruited Jigsaw label owner Chris McFarlane to record some songs outside their respective bands, Seattle-based indie poppers, Unlikely Friends, serve a solid debut on a golden platter.
Psychedelic, proggy, cosmic slop from Japan hits the soul like a hot cup of coffee in the morning.
Mysterious fuzz poppers from the Four Corners Desert, American Culture, offer an excellent debut full-length that perfectly encapsulates their name.
Unable to play guitar for over two years due to chemo treatments stemming from a long battle with cancer, veteran lower NYC songwriter, George Usher, wrote lyrics from his experience, which, in turn, were set to music by friend, Manhattan mainstay Lisa Burns.
Twenty four years in and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is still proving that they know how to kick out the jams.
La Spezia, Italy’s sea-obsessed rockers, King Mastino, prove they are the spice of Italian garage rock on their third full-length.
Transatlantic trio, Fractal Mirror, continue their unique brand of dreamy prog with their second album.
Seth Avett. Jessica Lea Mayfield. Elliott Smith. Get the hankies out.
