Tag: REVIEWS
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Daph Veil – Bloodsucker
Today, we have some fresh alternative rock music for your listening pleasure. “Bloodsucker” is the latest single by Daph Veil, a music outlet of an Austin-based singer-songwriter, Paula Laubach. Arriving after “Obsession,” “Reach For The Sky”, and “When I See You,” three critically acclaimed standalone singles that you should also check out as soon as…
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Hey Look Listen – Now Is The Time
The alternative music scene is growing stronger each day, with many artists and bands delivering high-quality music that immediately resonates with listeners and stays with them long after the last notes and beats have ended. However, many of them also overly explore influences, experiment too much, or try to reinvent the same old wheel by…
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Michellar – Never Say Sorry
There’s something about Michellar‘s music that keeps us returning and listening to all those songs she has recorded so far. Is it because of her marvelous voice or those lush soundscapes? Or maybe because of those qualities stacked in every segment of her songs? Who knows, but one thing is for sure: Michellar’s music always…
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Strange Pilgrim – Too Bright Planet
Strange Pilgrim’s Too Bright Planet resonates like a record written at sunset, when the sky is still glowing but shadows have already stretched across the ground, when clarity and mystery coexist. It is music that carries warmth and unease, an album that never tries to resolve tension but instead stays in it, letting beauty and…
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Seb Brun & Simon Henocq – Vallées
It has been a while since we talked about the records that dare to confront. Vallées, the latest collaboration between French experimentalists Seb Brun and Simon Henocq, falls squarely into those releases that shapeshift the boundaries of non-conventional music. It’s a well-organized yet disorienting listening experience that keeps the listener engaged from start to finish,…
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The Shrubs – Fall Behind
It has been a while since we heard anything from The Shrubs, but thankfully, they’re back with some fresh music that will immediately appeal to anyone who appreciates cleverly assembled and flawlessly performed music. If you paid close attention to the indie and alternative music scene lately, you probably realized how many excellent music outlets…
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Ratfink! – Plastic Bits
The indie pop scene has been thriving in recent years, with many excellent music outlets delivering high-quality music to the table. However, many artists and bands seem to overexploit their influences, experiment with various styles excessively, or attempt to reinvent the same old wheel by mimicking something the greats recorded and performed decades ago. Thankfully,…
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Sport – In Waves LP (Nasty Cut Records)
After a hiatus, Sport returns with In Waves, an album that will immediately become one of your favorites in your record collection. Hailing from Lyon, France, Sport have long been recognized for threading the needle between frenetic, noodly guitar interplay and deep emotional resonance, a lineage tracing back to bands like Snowing and Algernon Cadwallader,…
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fight me irl. – fight me irl. Mini CD (Nasty Cut Records)
fight me irl.’s self-titled debut mini CD crashes through the speakers, packed with anthemic vocal harmonies, tremendous guitar works, and energetic beats. This Copenhagen outfit has taken the restless DNA of early noughties emo and run it through the prism of modern pop punk, indie sensibilities, and orgcore instincts, crafting a familiar yet forward-thinking collection…
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Burnt Tapes – New Lungs LP (Nasty Cut Records)
Burnt Tapes have always been one of those bands you could count on to cut through the noise. They were always one of those bands that carried honesty and avoided the current music trends. With New Lungs, their sophomore album, the London-based band takes that honesty and sets it ablaze. It’s one of those records…
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Wotts – terminal
The contemporary indie scene has been thriving for the past decade, with many artists and bands delivering some of the finest works since the inception of this long-established genre, which dates back more than forty years. However, the scene has also reached a point where every music outlet sounds superb, yet only a few manage…
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Drill For Absentee – Strand Of A Lake, Vol. 1 And Vol. 2 LP (Expert Work Records)
Drill For Absentee were gone long enough to be mythologized, but not forgotten. In the twilight of the 1990s, they delivered music that belonged to that merciless intersection between post-hardcore and math rock abstraction, only to disappear before the world could catch up. Twenty-five years later, Strand Of A Lake represents an interruption of silence…
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