ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE ANGEL IN PLAINCLOTHES ASTHMATIC KITTY There are a number of singer songwriters out there that might not have the wide exposure they deserve but do have a staunch core of fans that keep them going for fame or bust, and in most [...]
CARLA DAL FORNO CONFESSION KALLISTA RECORDS Upon hearing a new album, one thing music fans usually try first is trying to define and categorise the music they are listening to – try and fit it into nice and clear category or categories. Maybe [...]
CISKA CISKA ANGEL MAYWAY RECORDS No, you probably haven’t heard of Ciska Ciska (yet). After all, at the age of 25, Belgian singer songwriter Ciska Dhaenens who is behind this moniker has only four singles under her belt, all combined on [...]
FOXTIDE ENTROPY POSITION MUSIC California sounds revival? Not called as such yet, but that line leading from The Beach Boys and Buffalo Springfield through the ‘70s scene seems to be being revived and modernized by the likes of The Lemon Twigs [...]
EMITTER EXTRA PALE INDEPENDENT Old sayings like ‘better late than never’ might sound trite sometimes, but in most cases, they turn out to be true. So is the case with Chicago’s Emitter and their old/new album, Extra Pale. So, [...]
FROG FROG FOR SALE AUDIO ANTIHERO Audio Antihero, the label that releases the music of the tricky little trio Frog, labels itself as ‘specialists in commercial suicide.’ Maybe they say that with their tongue firmly behind their cheek [...]
PRISM SHORES SOFTEST ATTACK MERITORIO RECORDS “Paperback Writer,” one of the greatest singles by The Beatles, never found its way one of their regular albums, but it did create one of the often underrated but at the same time greatly [...]
KAELEY JADE THE GREAT UNKNOWN INDEPENDENT Country music used to be full of formulas that begged to be broken, and for a while now Americana and alternative country artists did a great job in doing so. Joining those ranks is Edmonton-based Métis [...]
RICHARD BARBIERI HAUNTINGS KSCOPE David Sylvian-led Japan became legends of ‘80s electronic music, and Sylvian himself had a renowned solo career with a series of more and more experimental releases. Yet quite a few fans of the genre sometimes [...]
SPARKLER GLIDEWINDER À LA CARTE RECORDS Longtime shoegaze fans and followers surely have certain sound combinations in their minds that they would love to hear, and one such a combination would probably involve My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive [...]
PRYMEK & SAGE SHELTER AKP RECORDINGS If somebody would mention ambient music at this very moment, the first thing that might come to mind would be meandering electronics sounds. Yet the variation and spectrum of ambient music these days has [...]
SPACEPORT CUT THE LAKE AURA VORTEX RECORDS Minneapolis trio Spaceport is back with their second album Cut the Lake, with many missing their first offering Window Seat (2023). Maybe this time around that initial slip will be corrected, as the [...]
ELIZABETH AND THE CATAPULT RESPONSIBLE FRIEND COMPASS RECORDS The oh so sophisticated and fluid sound Responsible Friend, the new album by Elizabeth and the Catapult, might come as a surprise to the uninitiated, but Brooklyn-based Elizabeth [...]
KATY PINKE WONDER GLAMOUR GOWNS Sometimes you wonder, and it seems so does Katy Pinke on her new 4-song EP, with such a title, why do artists bother to release EPs that barely scratch over 6 minutes – is it just teasing ahead of something [...]
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS THE FORMER SITE OF NEW PORNOGRAPHERS MERGE RECORDS Despite the initial controversy with its name when the band first appeared, The New Pornographers made it big instantly, and it was the quality of the music, lyrics and [...]
TRUE GREEN HAIL DISASTER SPACECASE RECORDS Minneapolis-based novelist/songwriter Dan Hornsby is not the first to lead a band, but might be among the first ones to set his lyrical vision through jangly guitar rock with his band True Green. Hail [...]
MARNIE WEBER RETURNING HOME: THE MUSIC OF MARNIE WEBER PHANTOM LIMB RECORDS Wikipedia defines art rock as “ a subgenre of rock music that aims to separate the genre from popular entertainment, with the term typically being applied as the middle [...]
JACKIE WEST SILENT CENTURY RUINATION RECORDS Some would say that singer-songwriters are dime-a-dozen these days (again!), and the proliferation is certainly there, but there seems to be a deeper thematic shift compared to the initial [...]
CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD HURTS LIKE HELL NEXT DOOR RECORDS/MERGE RECORDS Big life changes impact everybody, but such changes are more visible, or to be precise, more audible with musicians. Motherhood is one such big change in life, and it had its [...]
EM SPEL BIRD OR SNAKE BIRDWATCHER What would be experimental folk exactly? As with any other genre, it would approximately mean that you as an artist are not taking the usual routes associated with such a genre, and it could be anything from [...]
THE TINES BARROWS FUNNYBONE RECORDS You really have to hit the right notes to come up with unmistakeably great melody. And if you get it right once, you are bound to hit it again and again, and come up with an almost perfectly consistent album, [...]
SPECIAL FRIEND CLIPPING SKEP WAX RECORDS You can try and make a direct comparison to what French/American duo Guillaume Siracusa and Erica Ashleson of Special Friend is doing on Clipping, their second, simply titled album, but at some point, you [...]
MIINA WHERE THE LIGHT GOES INDEPENDENT “Live My Life on Holiday” is one of the singles Miina, aka Laura Mina Mitic. picked from her debut album Where the Light Goes, but what it takes today to makes your music heard (whether it [...]
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND FUTURE SOUL FANTASY RECORDS Okay, you don’t have to be a fan of a certain genre, but then, if you are trying to be objective, there are certain things you simply cannot ignore, and that is the capabilities, [...]
