The salvific properties of music are on display across Carillon Reverie, an ambient concept album by Italian musician Mauro Corbia, AKA 4partment. Now based in Berlin, Germany, Corbia presents a recent album that tells the tale of a young girl who heals her village with a flower and the melodyContinue Reading
Hertfordshire production duo Nick Foster and Luke Barratt fuse samples like maniacal welders on psychedelics across their debut album Psychedelic Soul & Trash Vol.3. These samples and tidbits are drawn from a well of inspirations, but always reference the past. Even the duo’s moniker, Legends of the Seven Golden Vampires,Continue Reading
Will Knox by Liz Van Den Akker Will Knox has a knack for weaving entire worlds with just a few words and chords. Originally from London, Will’s journey took him to the US at 18, where he honed his craft at Berklee College of Music. Now based in the Netherlands,Continue Reading
There’s a warmth permeating All The Same, the debut album from Californian-native, Seattle-based Americana folk artist Megan Brickwood. This warmth emanates from the rich and naturalistic instrumentation, wooden vibrations of the guitar, and earthy percussion, but also in Brickwood’s vocals, the timbre of which has an unaffected and organicContinue Reading
Photo by Olegs Jonins Wicked Cities From A Distance – Lodern experimental electronic Through fifteen-plus minutes of saturated ambient textures, Wicked Cities From A Distance disseminates a comprehensive and dynamically intense soundscape on “Lodern”, a sprawling single replete with sustained distortions and drones of celestial frequencies. WCFAD is the workContinue Reading
New Orleans-based Conor Donohue has a penchant for eschewing specific genre classification, dealing instead in a smorgasbord of pop, indie, rock, electronic, and country, all basted in a vague Americanaesque vibe. The songs on his third album, Stray Dogs, appear to be from a storied life, one keen on pickingContinue Reading
Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, “The only constant in life is change”. The human experience is in constant flux, and we can’t expect things to stay the same, no matter how much we want them to. Naturally, such a dilemma would inspire artists. This appears to be the caseContinue Reading
“Dance music” and “music for dance” have different meanings. While the former is often associated with alcohol-fueled parties and festivals, the latter is more common at teatotalling performing arts conservatories. However, on Phobos, a recent EP from Italian composer Stefano Milella, aka Nother, these modes intersect with cinematic finesse. MovementContinue Reading
The quotidian slog suffered by all of us in the modern world can conceal moments of profound spirituality and meaning. Just ask Hauspoints, a post-punk outfit birthed in a “dilapidated industrial estate” in Lancashire, UK. These upstarts sport a distinctly northern flavour, and their flammable forays into snarly post-rock holdContinue Reading
Photo by Libre Leung Holding Hour – Can I Leave Me Too? indie rock Des Moiners Holding Hour deftly blends shoegaze and slacker intentions on their recent single “Can I Leave Me Too?”. Brimming with hazy optimism, the duo of Marissa Kephart and Scott Yoshimura offset their space-age synthetic rock withContinue Reading