The EP “Little Little Homes” came out a little over a week ago, and that’s since I’ve been listening to it. On repeat. This little gem of an EP is the creative child of Brandon Woodward and Luke Walton who together make music as FEiN, simply pronounced ‘fine’. Keeping it[…]
XYLØ let their debut EP “America” start with a literal bang: opener “Bang Bang” shouts singer Paige Duddy over thundering drums. The remaining four tracks don’t keep up that energy level and XYLØ switches to a slower, more emotional mode. Good songs, all of them, with a good dose of[…]
Some albums, like the ones by Cross Record or Sea Caves try to surprise the listener with every song or often even within a song. Others find beauty in steadiness, like “Neon Grey” by L.A. Girlfriend. Behind that name is not, as one could assume, a bunch of dudes from,[…]
Acoustic instruments, like flutes, violins and stripped-down guitars I find often too serious, too self-important for my taste and when I heard the single and opener “Spanning the River” of “Bright Forest” with its lively, upbeat flute melody, I would not have thought how much I appreciate the album. But[…]
The first time I listened to “Wabi-Sabi” was at a beach, which caused something like a complete disconnect between the sensations signaled to my eyes and ears. There are the glistening sea, bright colors and people having fun in front of me, but Cross Record’s music comes from very different[…]
After having listened to the hauntingly beautiful and pretty melancholic Science of Lovers, the first single of Galapaghost‘s upcoming album, I have been waiting for the record to drop. A week ago, January 9th 2016, I could finally listen to all twelve songs on I Never Arrived, the third album[…]
Jenny Lee Lindberg, the bassist of Warpaint, does not break free from her band with her debut solo album. First, Warpaint heavily promotes Jennylee’s album on their social media and made it very clear that, despite the solo efforts of its members, a new album is on the way in[…]
With its uncompromising urgency, high tempo moving forward, pronounced bass lines and underlying menace cumulating in great suspense, What Went Down is easily among the best rock-pop songs of the year! Yet when first listening to What Went Down the fourth studio album of The Foals, one is inclined to[…]
Art Angels is already Grimes’ fourth album, which is proudly denoted on its cover: Claire Boucher, the woman behind Grimes, who rose to unexpected stardom after her 2012 album Visions has been releasing music since 2010, when she self-recorded and self-published two excellent full-length records: Geidi Primes and Halfaxa. And[…]
Floriography, the full length debut album of Painted Zeros starts right of with lush, woozy guitars on (X) Flatline reminiscent of the best songs of the Silversun Pickups or Smashing Pumpkins, when Katie Lau asks: Which worries you more: that I’ll leave you, or that I won’t?I have changed, but my[…]
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