Rollicking through the air seemingly in slow-motion in “Tracii’s Ballad,” gliding into overdriven sonic ribbonry in “South of Yesterday,” the beats often cultivate the emotional foundation of the music in Izzie’s Caravan’s Zephyrs even more than lyrics do. In this sophomore effort from the blues-rockers, Izzie’s Caravan get cerebral with their songwriting and apply psychedelic elements to […]
Project Grand Slam’s is a prolific jazz and Latin-fusion band from New York City. East Side Sessions is the group’s 9th album. Featuring colliding sounds and sonic gifts, East Side Sessions stretches the listener’s imagination with an emotive touch. East Side Sessions is a 12-track album finely produced and engineered for the first time jazz […]
When we personalize our efforts to engage the world, the positive impact we create is powerful. Anyone can hold up a sign, march shoulder to shoulder with others in the name of a particular cause, or reel off a bevy of slogans and adages we believe illustrate solidarity with an issue. This observation does not […]
“So won’t you smile with me, one great big smile / An then we all can see, my baby smile” sings an impassioned AV Super Sunshine in his single “Smile,” and while his words are as emotional as any of the adjacent melodies accenting them could ever be, the greatest release in these verses comes […]
Though subtle in its first appearance in the song, the vocal harmony in Sébastien Lacombe’s “Gold in Your Soul” is at the backbone of every provocative beat in this latest single from the Montreal-stationed singer/songwriter, and while I wouldn’t say it’s the only element here that qualifies as spellbinding in tone and design, it’s definitely […]
Even when skirting the shadows of tracks like “The Distance Between Us” and “Painted Veil,” there’s scarcely a moment in SoloS’ self-titled EP where the beat isn’t responsible for the bulk of the record’s experimental appeal. Like a twisting stretch of highway leading us to previously undiscovered locations on the map, rhythm is an unpredictable […]
No one ever said it was easy to make an original alt pop song in the year 2020, but Chris Mardini is going out of his way to breaking some new creative ground in his latest studio recording, the powerful power ballad “Sleepless.” There’s not a lot to dissect about “Sleepless;” it’s more or less a pop song […]
2020 has been a good year for indie powerhouses, and for some of the season’s most alluring sonic sounds, I’d point you to none other than Whiskerman’s Kingdom Illusion. In Kingdom Illusion, these alternative vets break off some of their most experimental jams yet in songs like “The Great Unknown,” “Be Real” and the record’s title […]
In his single “A Long Time Ago,” enigmatic singer/songwriter Captain Dane-O fuses together elements of post-punk’s surrealism and conservative but biting guitar melodies with an Echo & the Bunnymen-style psychedelia, also of the minimalist persuasion, and although the resulting cocktail is anything but ‘mainstream’ in stylization, it undeniably makes for one of the more spellbinding […]
Strings of Atlas have been dishing out some supremely potent riffage in the last decade, and in their first release of the new decade – a three song EP titled How Far We’ve Come, after its sound-defining lead single – they’re back with what amounts to their heaviest material to see widespread release thus far. Led […]