“You’re A Freak” is a song full of surprises. It starts like a lullaby with gentle guitar strumming and kid’s laughter and lets you go with a lonely violin in the end. But in between, well, listen for yourself. The latest track of New York soul/folk collective Girl Skin is[…]
Listen to a new song by The Night Ships, a Netherlands-based duo, which makes the world their stage. “Half The World” was mostly recorded in Iran in support of the women’s rights movement there.
Frauds is the synth pop trio of Anaïs, Stan and Anthony from Paris, France who have just released their debut EP “Ellipse”. The opening cut “Come Slowly”, true to the title, builds its bright glittering analog synth lines into a grand, fistpumping finale. Listen to “Come Slowly”: Listen to “Ellipse”[…]
“All Eyes On Me” is an instantly alluring track with its pulsating beat, the sparkling bright guitar melody and the warm, emotive vocals of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Wespi, who goes by Streets of Roya. Reading Michael Wespi’s bio, it turns out, that the musician is also quite the globetrotter,[…]
I am a fan of the album format and I don’t believe that albums will die anytime soon or ever. Still, choosing my favorite music in terms of full-length albums feels increasingly restrictive. Much new music is released on EPs and one-off singles. And then, as much as I enjoy[…]
Bitch Falcon is a grunge rock three piece from Dublin, Ireland around singer Lizzie Fitzpatrick. Their latest song “Of Heart” is a six minute piece of raw power. Check it out on SoundCloud or Spotify:
While I haven’t been in either place, it is hard to imagine two more different landscapes than Arizona and Sweden. Amparo lives in the former and traveled to the latter to find love. The ambient song “Ruby” has no words, but will get the idea.
The holidays come closer and they often bring quiet moments of reflection. You could imagine London singer/songwriter Carmody has one of those in “The Ways Of Your Love” when she tries to explore why she loves somebody. Carmody explains: I wanted to write about the electricity you can have with[…]
The New York duo Me Not You of Nikki Taylor and Eric Zeiler arose from the pop trio Little Daylight with a brand of synth pop that is more glitter and heavier on guitars. That makes them a good fit for electronic music legend Gary Numan whom they opened for[…]
To go purely by sound, LA-based duo Slenderbodies could have given their latest single “Amnesia” the alternative title ‘haze’ because the ultra-gorgeous track sweeps you off in a fleeting, dreamy, breezy mist of sonic beauty. Listen to “Amnesia”, our Song Pick of the Day: For your Spotify playlist:
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