Market The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong Western Vinyl At some point you reach a stage when some mellow, subdued, harmony vocal pop rock with intelligent lyrics just fits the bill perfectly. In the late 90s and at the turn of the millennium, [...]
Georgia Harmer Stay In Touch Arts & Crafts You really have to have an impressive set of songs, a truly great voice and some stellar musical backing to come up with a debut album that should really matter. Toronto’s Georgia Harmer [...]
Abigail Lapell Stolen Time Outside Music What do you usually expect from a subdued singer-songwriter album? A voice and a single instrument? An interesting track or two and a bit of monotony? Sure, that is a problem many singer-songwriters face [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Fourteenth Trip RidingEasy Records Have six months already passed by? Well, that surely means it is time for the new Brown Acid The Fourteenth Trip proto hard/heavy compilation from yesteryear and artists and [...]
Clara Engel Their Invisible Hands Independent Don’t be fooled by the list of ‘thank you’ names Clara Engel dedicates on the album page of her latest album ‘Their Invisible Hands,’ some thirty or so names. [...]
1969 Collective 1969 Independent Suddenly, music projects appear out of nowhere to wow music listeners. For the artists involved, it is more a painstaking process of hours, days, months, sometimes years, of often meticulous work to put [...]
King Garbage Heavy Metal Greasy Love Ipecac Recordings You think you haven’t heard of King Garbage before? Well, maybe you should think again. Behind that moniker, under which the band is releasing it second album, Heavy Metal Greasy Love, [...]
Rumpistol Isola Raske Plader Danish producer, film composer, electronic musician and pianist Jens B. Christiansen (aka Rumpistol) has quite a few fans among fellow musicians and music industry plaudits, and rightfully so. His seventh solo album [...]
Your Crush Strawberry Sheets Independent Even the most hardened fans of what they consider complex music have some sort of a soft spot for some sort of, what some would call ‘pop confection.’ It could be anything – from an old [...]
Telefís a hAon Dimple Discs Calling your new project television using the English language would definitely imply you are copying the Tom Verlaine and co. legendary outfit, even though the project is made up of two quite well-known artists. So, [...]
Jerry Leger Nothing Pressing Latent Recordings It could be something in the water or having too much time to spend alone when it gets really cold so you can’t do much else but come up with some music, yet it seems that Toronto very often [...]
Junk Drawer The Dust Has Come To Stay Art For Blind Records These days, it seems that the sort of guitar-driven alternative art rock is on a back burner, not many new artists taking the quite tricky road Television and/or Galaxie 500 took in [...]
THE MONOCHROME SET ALLHALLOWTIDE TAPETE RECORDS If you ever wondered what would constitute something that would bear the name of ‘intelligent pop’, The Monchrome Set would certainly fit the bill. 16 albums (including the latest one) [...]
Matt Hannah House Of Illusion Independent The quality of a singer-songwriter album essentially relies on two key qualities – some good melodies supported by with as best possible musicianship and arrangements that go beyond just solo [...]
Alyssa Gengos Mechanical Sweetness Egghunt Records During the nineties it became all the rage to call any combination of folkish, singer songwriter sounds with electronic musical elements folktronica. Unfortunately, things got a bit complicated [...]
Various Artists I Love To See You Strut: More 60s Mod, R&B, Brit Soul and Freakbeat Nuggets Cherry Red Records There’s only a handful of labels around that can turn out a practically flawless compilation of various artists celebrating [...]
ERIC CHENAUX SAY LAURA CONSTELLATION RECORDS Well, here’s a category that might be new to some – spiritual jazz folk. Or, if you want to simplify things, very, very listenable and enjoyable experimental music. Actually, it is [...]
ALISON SHEARER VIEW FROM ABOVE INDEPENDENT What exactly would be a perfect genre fit? Don’t worry, even the people that make up genre definitions would have a hard time telling you. Actually, there probably isn’t such a thing, no [...]
PAN AMERICAN THE PATIENCE FADER KRANKY When someone mentions ambient as a genre, the first thought that would come to many listeners is electronic music and drifting soundscapes. Ok, fine, and that is a description that would fit a number of [...]
Tomo Before The Dawn Independent In these streaming days, if you aren’t able to read much about an artists, it doesn’t necessarily mean that listeners are not out there, giving traction to them and picking up on their music. [...]
GREAT LAKES CONTENDERS HHBTM RECORDS It seems that at the moment, if you exclude grunge, most of the music of the 90s is in some sort of a doghouse. And like any other decade in music that was residing there (at least for a while), there are not [...]
SPACEFACE ANEMOIA MOTHLAND Quite a few bands and artists have their favorite pastime, and usually it is yet another music project, that somehow or partly doesn’t fit with their ‘main’ project. It also can happen that this side project can become [...]
Various Artists C91 Cherry Red Records Almost four decades ago, back in 1986 when New Musical Express ruled the world of music journalism, the paper issued now the now-famed c86 cassette, which was full of sharp, sometimes shocking new [...]
RAINE HAMILTON BRAVE LAND INDEPENDENT Chamber folk never really became a sub-genre in itself. Usually, artists that pick up on that concept, and quite a few did go that route, usually have a song or two on their albums that can fall within that [...]
