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
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
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
Photo by Aleksandr Neplokhov Eugenia Post Meridiem – willpower alternative rock There’s a whimsical coolness to Eugenia Post Meridiem’s new single “willpower”. The group, from Italy, casually merge funk phrases with indie rock. Consisting of two Matteos and one Giovanni, the group set an ambitiously fun arty funk rock againstContinue Reading
Photo by Kaan Keskin Cypher – ground Electronic Cypher is a collaboration between artists arad acid, exael, mu tate & a special guest DJ. Environmental electronica is the order of the day on this sterling cut from the upcoming album “APPX:10 Glasgow”. Glitchy drums softly spread across the mix likeContinue Reading
It’s often difficult to write about jazz. Thoughtful and expressive by nature, jazz is both a cultural cornerstone and an academic field of study, and a writer who doesn’t know their terminology or history will soon be exposed. Unsurprisingly, most music writers prefer to stay away from this genre. Luckily,Continue Reading
Slime Lush are a post-punk jam-rock band from Oklahoma, USA, and their brand of rough-and-ready rock is both easily accessible and uniquely engaging. Across the eight tracks of varying length on their debut album, “Custom Slaughter”, one can find enjoyable melodies, sweet guitar hooks, and passages of more abstract andContinue Reading
Photo by Andrea Ch Ultraflex – Mi Vuoi Uplifting trance Ultraflex are an enigmatic trance duo from Germany, and their recent single “Mi Vuoi” is a deep and hypnotic fusion of ambient pop, jazz, and EDM. This track is teeming with skill and talent; from the changing rhythms and aceContinue Reading
Photo by Athena Quade – Spiral art rock A single in two parts, “Spiral” by Bristol four-piece art-rock outfit Quade is a mysterious musical endeavour, combining post-rock, neoclassical, and spoken word. The tense mood builds and is released by mourning strings and shifts in rhythms, but the sinister feeling itContinue Reading