With “Viva la Revolución,” Mishka does not try to overwhelm the listener straight away; he takes a slower approach, letting the song build steadily instead of...
With “Better Half,” Town Called Us sound like two people telling the truth about their relationship and trusting that listeners will meet them there.
With “FORGET TO LOVE,” SOMYO treats the topic of heartache with reverence, while showing how dance-pop should be done.
Slow Burn Drifters blends an array of styles and genres, some traditional and some invented, making the unease strangely comforting.
With “You Stood Still,” Matt Jones and the Bobs deliver an initially stripped-down song that mushrooms into an appealing Americana track.
Highlighted by their art-rock funk rhythms and ingenious textures, NOVABLOOD offers a quirky, compelling song on “I Used To Live In A House.”
With “The Hammer,” Dash Hammerstein reveals he’s learning to paint on a larger canvas, one that’s appealingly original.
Spacious and a bit hypnotic, “Nyc 1970s Cinema” is at once sensitively reflective, while remaining totally chill.
On “Photograph,” Monotronic dives deep into dark colors of fluctuating synths, probing the hypnotic allure of superficiality.
Shimmering with luscious, poignant layers, with “The Ghosts of Christmas Past,” Judy Whitmore captures Christmas in a song.
With “Don’t Ever Date A Yankee,” Rebekah Snyder takes aim at perceived, superficial differences and the power of love.
Amazingly arranged with stormy blackness and billowing energy, “Woe Am I” summons up the turbulence of Greek tragedy.
There’s a hovering, kaleidoscopic feel to “Makes Me Great // Out Of Body” (‘a’ Records), a deft and extensive exploration of intoxicating textures.
With “She’s In Richmond,” a sublime earworm of a song out now via Banner Music Records, Levi Foster reveals the ample pageantry of country music,
At once inspirational and heartening, with “Simply Avanti,” Mynd Reader taps into visceral, honest, stirring emotions.
Smooth, rich, swanky vocals and gleaming surfaces of pop-laced R&B make J+M’s “Don’t Ya” a sure-fire, can’t-miss Top 40 hit.
The epitome of elegant, easy listening, Retrosaint’s “False Start” conveys the luscious finesse of Americana merged with yacht pop flavours.
Brimming with effervescent, supple surfaces of EDM, “ICE CREAM” reveals a reverence for tradition while exploding with sub-bass.
Simultaneously cathartic and tranquil, with “Judgement City,” Diana Zaheer subdues the turbulence of deep thoughts and emotions.
Every once in a while, a song comes along that sums up the grandeur of love. Marius Billgobenson’s “A Little Bit of Honey” is one of...
While the track itself is an absolute banger from start to finish, the one thing that could outshine the song is the music video.
Luxuriously sensitive, “Coventry Carol/What Child is This” reveals the color, texture, and balance of the voice of Allan Palacios Chan.
Passionate and haunting, as it progresses, “Hell” delivers the feeling of slowly descending into the black abyss of incipient irrationality.
The split, taken as a whole, projects a future nostalgia vibe, unapologetic about the exploratory emotions expressed therein.
Although the contrast between the two new songs is marked, both display the plush new wave-flavoured dream-pop and creamy redolence of Glassio’s vocals.
Jeff Hulett releases his double A-Side 7-Inch, “Sun Recordings,’ via Small Batch Records and both tracks are excellent, brimming with misty layers of instruments materializing into beautifully integrated...