Independent Music Reviews
Photo by Gervelemae SELL EVERYTHING -Something New jazz-rock fusion Are bands that stylize their name in all caps being purposefully obnoxious? Most definitely yes, and I personally and generally am…
There’s a wonderful convergence of natural and electronic elements at play across Triptyque, a fittingly titled three-track EP from Zurich-based musicians Théophile Blanchon and Merlin Breij. The trumpet’s voice may…
“Bifurcate” is a word that means to divide into two branches or forks, like a river splitting and flowing in different directions. Separation is a theme that resonates with New…
Leixlip-based musician Ogenblik’s experiments in retrofuturistic production culminate in his debut album This Used To Be The Sound of The Future. Employing a range of outdated recording techniques, from dictaphones…
Nothing like a bit of nihilism to start the weekend. On The Shining Tongues’ second album, This Body Of Mine Will Disintegrate, the Londonites face life’s bleaker truths through spiritually…
Sometimes, you have to start again. After playing in the post-punk band Sandcastle, the Toulon-based musician Thomas Ferrandes reinvisioned his musical language through Farewell Wise Man, an anything-goes instrumental musical…
“Will we ever cease to believe in wrong cosmologies?” is the question posed by Italian-Canadian sound artist Dominic Sambucco on his recent EP, Relative Cosmologies. Relative Cosmologies by Dominic Sambucco…
The problem with the present is that you can never really see it. According to NPR: “When you look at the mountain peak 30 kilometres away, you see it not…
On their self-titled EP, Portlander indie-rock outfit Baby Grendel craft winning tunes underpinned by an uninhibited capacity for expression and an ability to build colourful worlds via jangly and roaming…
There is no shortage of ideas on Leah Callahan’s new album Curious Tourist. These ideas are primarily artistically vague, full of metaphors, almost dream-like in their hazy delivery, but are…