Deeper Careful! Sub Pop Records Strap in team – Careful! the third album from Deeper, will take you on a hypnotic musical journey that consumes you till the end. With mesmerising guitar riffs, synthetic beats, and haunting vocals, a captivating [...]
PATRICK KRIEF SKYLINES INDICA Patrick Krief, formerly known simply as Krief, delivers on a more personal level than past releases, a solid LP in the form of Skylines, the artist’s seventh solo release. The former guitar lead and contributor of [...]
DBA (DOWNES BRAIDE ASSOCIATION) CELESTIAL SONGS CHERRY RED Celestial Songs is the fifth studio release for Downes Braide Association (DBA). DBA is Geoff Downes of Yes, The Buggles, and Asia, and Chris Braide who has written songs for and worked [...]
BBQ Pope Sad Reprise EP Independent Toronto garage punk band, BBQ Pope, has returned with their first release since their 2019 double single, “Visions/Kinda Funny”. Clocking in at just over ten minutes, Sad Reprise EP consists of four songs, [...]
Birthh Moonlanded Carosello Records Some artists go all out on their presence on social media. That rare minority, that includes Brooklyn-based, Italian singer songwriter Alice Bisi who works as Birthh, essentially don’t care. She has a [...]
Berkley Pueblo Big Secret Records For those who have missed our Berkley premiere recently, or those who might have doubted that Andrew Jones, aka Berkley can maintain such high quality throughout his latest album simply titled Pueblo, just a [...]
PETER FRAMPTON PETER FRAMPTON AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL UMR/ISLAND RECORDS British Grammy-winning artist and accomplished singer-songwriter and guitar player Peter Frampton released a new CD album, Peter Frampton At Royal Albert Hall. The album [...]
ROYAL BLOOD BACK TO THE WATER BELOW WARNER RECORDS Royal Blood have returned with Back To The Water Below, their first record since 2021’s Typhoons. For their fourth album, the British duo consisting of singer and bassist Mike Kerr and drummer [...]
PRIMAL FEAR CODE RED ATOMIC FIRE RECORDS Primal Fear formed in 1997, and their self-titled debut album was released in 1998. Since then, they have released 13 studio albums and two live albums. Code Red is their first studio album since 2020’s [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS GODSPEED – A TRIBUTE TO PIERRE KEZDY BIG MINNOW RECORDS If you love the sound of punk rock that blasts your eardrums with raw energy and emotion, you will love Godspeed: A Tribute to Pierre Kezdy. This album is a homage to [...]
Strawberry Runners Strawberry Runners Duper Moon records Strawberry Runners is one Emi Night (they/them) whose musical project has been running for some ten years now. After a series of quite noticed releases and a move to Philadelphia, some [...]
Sea Lemon Stop At Nothing Luminelle Recordings When twee pop phrase was coined sometime during the heyday of Sarah Records, not many reviewers thought that such a sound would turn into a full-fledged genre, at least not into one that will stick [...]
ALICE COOPER ROAD earMUSIC Alice Cooper is a master of blending hard-driving songs with a sense of theatricality, and his newest album, Road, continues that tradition. The 13 tracks on the album were produced by Bob Ezrin, who has been a [...]
MARVIN GAYE LET’S GET IT ON (DELUXE EDITION) MOTOWN RECORDS When the news broke out back in 1973 that Marvin Gaye is to release a new album that was to follow What’s Goin’ On, an album that even then was considered as one of [...]
Nora Kelly Band Rodeo Clown Mint Records Nora Kelly Band’s Rodeo Clown is band’s debut that is being released into the more and more congested field of Americana/Canadiana music. This means that Kelly and her Montreal-based band [...]
Ora Cogan Formless Prism Tongue Records Ora Cogan is an interesting artist. She always has several tricks up her sleeve, and when one gets ready to listen to her new album, one never fully knows what to expect. Formless, for example, is a [...]
WILLIAM SHATNER PONDER THE MYSTERY REVISITED CLEOPATRA RECORDS William Shatner is known for his popular roles on television, including Captain Kirk (Star Trek), T.J. Hooker, and $#*! My Father Says. Since 1968, he has also been recording albums, [...]
BEBEL GILBERTO JOÃO [PIAS] Bebel Gilberto grew up surrounded by music. Her father was João Gilberto, one of the pioneers of Brazilian bossa nova, and her mother was famed Latin jazz singer Miúcha. This kind of pedigree can be both a blessing and [...]
THE LILAC TIME DANCE TILL ALL THE STARS COME DOWN ABSOLUTE LABEL SERVICES The Lilac Time features brothers Stephen and Nick Duffy, and Stephen’s wife, Claire. Dance Till All The Stars Come Down is their 12th album, and first since 2019’s Return [...]
THE HIVES THE DEATH OF RANDY FITZSIMMONS INDEPENDENT The Hives are back! Following a period of semi-hiatus and the departure of original bassist Dr. Matt Destruction, the Swedish punk outfit has returned with their first album since 2012’s Lex [...]
Stephen Steinbrink Disappearing Coin Western Vinyl Sure, it has been tried before. That is, combining Brian Wilson-like harmonies with meandering and subtly complex San Francisco psych vibes. Yet integrating the two into an artful combination [...]
Sloppy Heads Sometimes Just One Second Shrimper Records Brooklyn trio Sloppy Heads have been around since 2009 and have created their own underground scene that covers a wide musical palette seen through their seemingly sloppy, slop-rock [...]
Melodiesinfonie Softboi Independent You really have to be truly versed in music to be able to come up with an album that is basically all soft, funky, jazzy soul. Those elongated notes and spaces have to really work to have their effect and you [...]
McKenzie Stubbert Waiting Room Curious Music Making neo-classical music work as pop in a way, seems to be quite popular these days, what with the success of artist/composers like Ludovico Einaudi. Yet, very often, such artists/composers tend to [...]
