The science on friendships is out; they are critical to our mental health and general well-being. Friendships allow us to share our ideas without fear of being judged and can make the burdens of life seem less insurmountable. Unfortunately, the importance of physical comradery has waned in our digital world.Continue Reading
Photo by Kyle Johnson Vitesse X – Right Now alternative pop NY-based electronic thaumaturge Jordan Stern, AKA Vitesse X, spins an intoxicating waterfall of sputtered melodies, hazed-out vocals, and danceable percussion on her recent single “Right Now”. The single is taken from the upcoming follow-up to her debut album, Us Ephemeral,Continue Reading
Photo by Sinitta Leunen Igor Ballereau – ijkl French composer Igor Ballereau leads the listener down complex corridors of dark piano, expressive guitar, gutsy percussion and strange sonic experiments on his recent album ijkl. Field recordings of crumbling earth and falling stones are set against sporadic and discordant strikes onContinue Reading
Photo by Alex Cooper Kayam – Omens alternative Berlin siblings Kayam have recently released their sophomore album “Omens”, and the titular first single from that album is an alluring introduction to an album of intimate and environmental alternative folk music. However, the group prefer to classify their music with theContinue Reading
Girondolini is a musical project by Vienna-based jazz-trained drummer July Skone. Formerly of the high-concept, in-your-face project Gudrun Von Laxenburg, Skone’s recent outing sees his impressive drumming style take a backseat to sample-based plunderphonics pulled off with quicksilver precision. Featuring a cast of collaborators, the self-titled debut album is aContinue Reading
With a tonic of indiscernible sounds, sultry bass lines, snappy percussion, colourful guitars, and hauntingly elusive vocals, The House Flies beguile the listener with their recent EP, Glimmer. The solo recording project of Murnau’s Alex Riggen, The House Flies delivers a gothic brand of alternative post-punk, obscuring emotionally led songsContinue Reading
Photo by Mathias Reding. The Know – Me indie Wife and husband duo The Know invite the listener into their sweet world of good vibrations and positive but thorough emotions on the recent single “Me”. Taken from their upcoming second EP, the song sees the group expound on their dreamyContinue Reading
Photo by Grace Ho David Curington – Assured Listening Experience experimental The mystifying plunderphonics of Mancunian artist David Curington are spread across 26 minutes on the recent release “Assured Listening Experience”. Like Ronseal Quick Drying Woodstain, it does exactly what it says on the tin, assuring a wonderous, if notContinue Reading
Meg Baird wants to show you another world. The psychedelic folk tones of her new album Furling underline a slow-burning and patient collection of dreamy songs that act as conduits for inter-plane travels. The honest-to-goodness production, mainly helmed by producer Tim Green at his Grass Valley Louder Studios, packages Baird’s songs inContinue Reading
Photo by simon peel Unstuck – Anne-Marie pop punk Wexford arrivistes Unstuck play blisteringly fun indie rock as exhibited on their recent single “Anne-Marie”. The lo-fi sound and loud guitars complicate the otherwise pop simplicity of this infectious track. With slacker sentiments, Unstuck claims viability with Mid-Atlantic accents and relentlesslyContinue Reading