Arktik Lake:Â Shimmer
Arktik Lake Shimmer (Arktik Lake) Arktik Lake’s new EP Shimmer opens on the strong beat and bending guitar line of the title track. Lead by Marty Willson-Piper and Olivia Willson-Piper’s harmonies; this jangle-of-an-opener sets a nice easy rockin’ pace for the four tunes that follow. “Promises We Made” follows, with wide-open spaces, More...
Marc-E:Â Catharsis
Marc-E Catharsis (Marc-E) Marc-E, a music producer and performer based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, mixes electronic samples, traditional instruments, and organic drum rhythms. His new album, Catharsis, wraps the More...
Hasten Mercy: Hasten Mercy
Hasten Mercy Hasten Mercy (Global Heist Recordings/Neurodisc Records) “Star You Are,” with its kinetic backbeat piano and driving percussion kicks us off on Hasten Mercy’s self-titled EP. These 3-songs More...
My Autumn Amor:Â Quiet Girl
My Autumn Amor Quiet Girl (My Autumn Amor) Los Angeles-based songwriter Thomas Monroe AKA My Autumn Amor, gives us his new EPÂ Quiet Girl. What we get here is a truly singular sound from Monroe, as much from More...
Beo String Quartet: Ghosts Revisited
Beo String Quartet Ghosts Revisited (Neukraft Records) From classical masterpieces, contemporary pieces, and original progressive rock, the full range of Pittsburgh’s Beo String Quartet is impossible to label. More...
Elliot Cole:Â Journals (vol. 1)
Elliot Cole Journals (vol. 1) (Long Echo Music) Elliot Cole presents the four pieces of his Journals (vol. 1) here. Enlisting Jordan Dodson on guitar and Gabriel Cabezas on cello, we get some well-played, deeply More...
Magnum Dopus: Suburbanova
Magnum Dopus Suburbanova (Space Mall Records) A keyboard soundscape gives way to plucked piano and big snares on Tennessee-based Magnum Dopus “8PM,” the opener on the band’s new full-length Suburbanova. More...
Vannon: Desert of Our Dreams
Vannon Desert of Our Dreams (Vannon) Oakland heavy metal-er’s Vannon throws us into Desert of Our Dreams, with their new album. Off the scary soundscape of opener “Call Up A Storm,” we get the balls-to-the-wall More...
Hippy:Â Falling in Love with Being Alive
Hippy Falling in Love with Being Alive (Hippy) A funky electric and chunky beat of “Consistently Inconsistent” begins Glasgow-based duo Hippy’s Falling in Love with Being Alive. Singer Paul Hipson and More...
Celebrity Warship Culture: Recreational Everything
Celebrity Warship Culture Recreational Everything (Celebrity Warship Culture) The moaning slow bent string plodding of “Recreational Everything” begins Celebrity Warship Culture’s new album of the same More...
