Folk-rock artist Skittish (aka Jeff Noller) debuts his 10-track album ‘Midwest Handshake,’ paying tribute to his Minnesotan roots.
Damn! With “Music Man,” Jules takes alt-rock by the horns and wrestles it into submission with beaucoup aplomb and bravura.
Tamar Berk comes into her own on ‘Tiny Injuries,’ an album exposing unvarnished emotions and a multiplicity of stylistic elements.
Haunting, complex and more intricately layered than it initially comes across, Tamra’s “Omens, Silos” achieves a remarkable sonic balance.
Saturated in glutinous waves of primal, pop energy, Name Sayers’ ‘Joyboys In The Grindhouse’ pulsates with ferocious, mysterious power.
Full of various stylistic aromas, there’s a delicious minimalist feel to “Mask,” highlighted by the morphing vocals of Raylee Forest.
Pervaded by elusive familiarity, the songs on ‘One Way Ticket to Midnight’ reflect a sonic scintillance difficult not to succumb to.
Like soft-serve ice cream, 'The Night Owls' delivers rich, velvety textures, sugared by the silky-smooth vocals of Marianne Bourgeois.
Resounding with large rock structures and the primo-rock vocals of TJ, The Nearly Deads’ ‘We Are The Nearly Deads’ thrums with weighty, unwavering dynamics.
Will Rainier’s ‘Wobble in the Moon’ is a visceral, affecting album full of deliciously unctuous washes of pedal steel and soft, welcome melodies.
Humming with wicked throbbing energy, Kian Blume’s “Parasite” simmers with the aroma of animal appetites and excited pangs of carnal hunger.
Enclosed in cashmere surfaces and the melodious vocals of Andrew Smith, ‘The Garden’ projects appealing compassion and enchantment.
The merger of ’90s grunge and alt-rock surfaces bathes Apache Rose’s “Cabin Fever” in raw edginess juxtaposed against moody vocals.
Tumescent with an array of emotions, “Man Up” simultaneously simmers, smoulders, and burns with the evocative vocals of Austin Willacy.
Sans a subpar track, along with its affinity for threads of concerto surfaces, KTHRTK’s ‘Dreams Are The Only Safe Place To Hide’ is excellent.