Obscure Sound explores albums #11 to #20 in recapping the best releases from 2017.
New Tracks
Obscure Sound reaches the mid-way point of counting down the best albums of 2017.
Obscure Sound explores albums #31 to #40, continuing to dig into the best albums of 2017.
Obscure Sound begins digging into the best albums of 2017, with albums #41 to #50 revealed.
Portland-based trio Maxwell Cabana impress mightily on new track “Texas”, released today. Distant, suave guitar tones establish the track’s smooth presence, the soulful vocals emerging shortly thereafter. As the lyrics hop between
Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer Dorvin Borman crafts an engaging vein of dreamy psych-pop. Just-released track “Wrath” works around his serene vocals and glistening, twangy guitars, with a reverbed drum
“Mind Designs” is the second single off Wax Mistress’ debut EP, A Ghost in the Garden. The Nashville-based act will certainly appeal to fans of Tame Impala, with similar psych-friendly guitar pulsations
San Francisco indie-pop quartet Faux Canada is comprised of members My First Earthquake, Crashfaster, and Sir Salvatore. With mutual admiration for Secretly Canadian’s roster in the early ’00s, the band channels a
New Albums
Led by New York-based composer Dash Lunde, VPC Ensemble presents Life Is a Strange Loop: Side A, a recursive meditation on consciousness.
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Budapest-based artist Bárdits Éva‘s solo debut, Inertia, delivers a striking fusion of avant-garde soundscapes and raw confessional songwriting. Recorded entirely at home,
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Victoria, Australia-based producer Cale Anderson‘s full-length Yemaya (We all Come from The Goddess) blends folktronica, art-pop, and dynamic percussion into a devotional
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Mode7, the debut conceptual album from French songwriter Julien Daval’s project FloreJack, charts a narrative arc through both intimate acoustic storytelling and
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