Author Archive
Folk
Yellow Shoots – “Pinning Paradise”
“Pinning Paradise” is a pensive meditation on the movement of time from Yellow Shoots, the Philadelphia-based project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Gregory Matthews. Enchanting acoustic trickles blend with t...
Rock
Lucha Like Libre – “Laced Up”
Lucha Like Libre‘s “Laced Up” begins with a driving rhythmic backbone that breaks open to raspy vocals, endearing with their lyrical sincerity. Alongside crunchy guitar jangles, lushly cinematic synths rush in...
Rock
Conor Houston – “Evenings With The News”
Ghostly key swirls and deep-rooted vocals create a cove of reflection in Conor Houston’s “Evenings With The News.” Haunting psych guitar twinges swell to an engulfing chorus, burgeoning with eldritch synth-y textures. Mournful ...
Rock
Love Crumbs – “Cavalcades”
Trudging guitar jangles and a valiant vocal lead ignite Love Crumbs‘ new track “Cavalcades”. While the verses chug along with a meditative calmness, the chorus cathartically erupts like a soaring spring of hop...
Rock
Alpaca Factory – “They Say the Devil Wears Prada”
Roaring from Chesterfield, UK, Alpaca Factory remind fondly of early Arctic Monkeys, particularly the album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. Get seduced by the juicy guitar riffs and punchy yet balance...
Singer/Songwriter
Cat Clyde – “So Cold”
Forlorn guitar riffs float weightlessly and quickly collide with punchy organ keys on Cat Clyde’s new track “So Cold.” Clyde’s vocals pierce the atmosphere until they fully build at the 0:45 mark, where they’re join...
Psychedelic Rock
Phileas Fogg – “Memories of Sun”
Psych-rocker Philaes Fogg returns with another deliciously murky atmosphere on new track “Memories of Sun.” A coy guitar presence accompanied by hauntingly harmonic vocals pulls you into an eldritch expanse. The tra...
Rock
Anthony Lazaro – “Written in the Stars”
Anthony Lazaro’s latest track “Written in the Stars” bursts open with a bustling rhythmic style reminiscent of The Strokes. Lazaro’s vocals drip with raspy allure as they parade across a linear melody th...
Pop
Laura Jean Anderson – “Thinkin Bout You”
Laura Jean Anderson’s ethereal pop vocals remind fondly of Minnie Riperton on new track “Thinking Bout You”. Entrancing refrains like “I’ve been thinking bout you / please don’t mind / itR...
Psychedelic Rock
TEMPESST – “A Little Bit of Trouble”
Tempesst is the creation of a blended Australian-British quartet currently grooving in London. Suave vocals flow through an intoxicating vocal melody in their newest single “A Little Bit of Trouble,” — an ode to a drunken...
