Independent Music Reviews
Bostonian electronic music producer George Bolton started the musical project The Screaming Pope just before Covid hit. By operating around steadfast drums, whimsical virtual instrumentation, and a desire to create…
Photo by Tibor Krizsak Evelyn Cools – Control country Evelyn Cools is a singer songwriter operating on the more alternative side of country. Cools’s recent single, “Control”, is about embracing…
Photo by Sasha Matveeva The Rabbitts – Sunrise indie folk Norvician duo The Rabbitts have added a heavy-handed serving of the fantastical to their otherwise 60s psychedelic folk stylings on…
Photo by Zsófia Fehér Felix Rösch – Vienna neoclassical While strolling around a snow-covered Vienna during lockdown, Berlin-based pianist and composer Felix Rösch was having some profound thoughts. Relayed here…
New Yorker trio Occurrence blend abstract worlds of polluted alt-pop and energetic flourishes of danceable rhythms on their creative and flamboyantly far-reaching fifth album Slow Violence. The sprawling double album…
Annihilation Signals is the second solo album of Reading-based singer-songwriter Lee Switzer-Woolf. The follow-up to 2022’s Scientific Automatic Palmistry, the album centers around Switzer-Woolf’s candid and heart-on-the-sleeve songwriting while folding…
Photo by Inga Seliverstova Eydís Evensen – Tranquillant neoclassical Eydís Evensen · Tranquillant Icelandic pianist and composer Eydís Evensen expertly balances the moody and tense atmosphere of her recent single,…
Photo by Polina Romanenko Silky Disturbance – Indebted To You alternative Bristolian experimenters Silky Disturbance hammer into psychedelic depths on “Indebted To You”, an idiosyncratic cut from the group’s new…
Photo by Jill Evans mal sounds – SAY WHAT YOU NEED bedroom pop The music of New York guitarist, singer, and performer mal sounds is terrifically sweet on the outside,…
Photo by Zina Zabudkina Courtney Farren – Happy alternative pop San-Franciscan vagabond Courtney Farren spent much of her youth and young-adult life moving around. This has lent a sense of…