Das Body is difficult to pigeonhole. Embracing everything from Scandi-pop to jazz to chic dance, it’s a sound innovative and diverse.
With vibey keyboards, mellow guitars, and glowing harmonies, “Lean Into You” provides Alesia Lani with room for her cool, laid-back voice.
Caparisoned in a canvas of suspended, blushing synths and temperate rhythms, the highlight of ‘sweet & heady’ is the ghostly voice of mon cher.
Musically and visually, the alice the g00n track “CYA” indulges the human instinct to rage and break shit, to strike out against monolithic, unfeeling corporations.
With “Climax,” Stone Van Brooken allows his atmospheric urges to develop into a tune suffused with momentous ambient techno layers.
Now Hear This! Four new artists for assessment: Club 8, Daphne Eckman, No Windows, and TRIPPLEHAZE, a Kazakhstan-based alternative band.
Les Biches debuts their phantasmagoric music video for “The White Shape of Noise,” which underscores the hallucinogenic sensation of the music.
KRANKk teams up with the Ragga Twins on their new single, “THINK,” a song probing societal venality and the plague of war.
Now Hear This! This week, we present four new artists/bands: Equipment, Eternal Storm, Kassi Valazza, and the surf-punk of Cat Valley.
Sprinkled by a delicious familiarity that’s at once innovative and persuasive, there’s a wonderful naturalism and frankness to “Liar.”
Luxuriously sensitive, “Coventry Carol/What Child is This” reveals the color, texture, and balance of the voice of Allan Palacios Chan.
Now Hear This! #019 features Lilla Veneda, indie-pop from Mall Girl, Malena Cadiz, and the indie-folk of Sofia Talvik’s sad Christmas song.
Set off by various genres, with ‘Fascination,’ Peppermint Heaven does what they do best – regales listeners with gratifying retro indie-pop.
Drenched in pop-rock oomph with faint hints of punk-rock running through it, “Smile (No Fox Gibbon)” is a fun, feel-good song.
At times sensual and seductive, at other times funereal, James McGowan Ensemble’s ‘Reaching In displays’ an array of not only styles but also depth and genius.