Analogue recording equipment has long been lauded for producing a warm and natural sound. However, on “atrophy”, Londonite vocalist/rapper privacydied and Charlottean producer jodimattiaccy utilise analogue’s ability to handle distortion while feeding their anxious and youthful expressions of angst through a blender of effects. The sound often alludes to hip-hop,Continue Reading
There’s an alluring innocence to “afterville”, the third album from Sydney-based indie pop group Key Out. Full of carefully arranged harmonies, intimate moments via sweetly played acoustic-leaning instrumentation, it delivers heartwarming songs that are often careful and light. Recorded in different locations in their native Australia as the group wereContinue Reading
Looking for information on Portuguese experimental electronic composer and producer Jorge is fruitless. His recent album, “Entre células”, is accompanied only by the cryptic statement that Jorge was “born and raised in the Portuguese alternative rock world” but that he now focuses on ambient-leaning electronic inspired by the works ofContinue Reading
Photo by Julia Rekamie Joshua Burnside – Rough Edges folk One of Ireland’s, and specifically Northern Ireland’s, more endearing songsmiths, Joshua Burnside, has a new single out. This is cause for celebration. Burnside lingers on the more whimsical and exploratory side of guy-with-guitar folk and is as much a poetContinue Reading
The personification of nature as a mother makes sense; the word “nature” comes from the Latin “natura”, meaning “birth”. If nature is our meta-maternal figure, we are the fruit from her branches. We grow and fall around her multi-faceted world with merely the illusion of choice. The Gaia hypothesis supposes thatContinue Reading
‘Psychedelic’ is an odd genre classification. The ‘psy’ suggests something heady; music that feels like you’ve taken mind-bending narcotics. And while the destination of the genre might be a floaty headspace, the means of transportation needn’t be long-haired chaps wailing out endless guitar solos. This is proven by Torontonian psych-folkContinue Reading
Music and memory have an important connection. Not only does music help us conjure old memories, but it also helps create new ones. “Our memories play such a huge part of our identities, yet they are extremely unreliable,” writes Swedish artist Jakob Lindhagen in a text accompanying his new album “MemoryContinue Reading
Photo by Markus Spiske Sasha & The Bear – Wake Me Up pop As intrinsically annoying and intentionally attention-grabbing as pop music is, not even chin-stroking music academics can deny its redemptive power. On a song like “Wake Me Up” by Sasha & The Bear, one can get a simpleContinue Reading
Somewhere in the hilly city of Burlington, Vermont, Kevin Bloom is experiencing something profound. Perhaps it’s deep thought about the ethics of eating animals or something more personal like the futility of living in the past. Regardless of the specific content of Bloom’s mind, it’s likely to come out asContinue Reading
Photo by Alexandra Smielova Joan of Arkansas – Erase Me indie rock Joan of Arkansas immediately get points for having a pun as a name. Thankfully, wordplay is not the only source of amusement from this sludge pop band from Phoenix, Arizona, who claim to have formed “through Tinder andContinue Reading