Speak your own truth: Wyatt Coulson & The Reserved Company and Nathaniel David Knox music reviews
August 31, 2021
Nathaniel David Knox – Romania Mea (My Romania)
Genre: Indie Folk
Beauty is most certainly in the eye of the beholder. That’s an old saying that stays true. Another one that holds up is the one about it being impossible to be regarded as a prophet in your…
Spoon and the Forkestra – Mary Lou
Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Similar artists: Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, Dodie, Bright Eyes, Big Thief
For the majority of us, pop music and comedy movies are the only way in which we can access instant elation. Now…
Elizabeth King – Living In The Last Days
We live in a time when the Western world, for the most part, has decided that traditions of all types are better left in the past. In the same society that we live in, ageless wisdom is disregarded, culture and faith are…
Cynically yours: Forever X2 and Black Lung Lucy reviewed
March 14, 2021
Black Lung Lucy – Thousand Men
Jeff Buckley, one of the greatest singers of the modern era, was once asked how he acquired his operatic voice. He told the reporter that it was nothing special. Everyone has a unique voice, he said. You can’t fake the honesty of…
Carousel Rogues – Pete Gets Happy
For all the effort needed to build up rock musicians into folk heroes, the music industry sure tends to forget a lot of its most talented practitioners at the time when they’re creating their most compelling work.
It…
That ‘60s feeling: Cult Icon and You and the Whose Armies reviewed
November 27, 2020
You and the Whose Armies – Black Nipple (feat. Lea Jonas)
Here’s an Austrian band, who have named their single after what sounds like a Mighty Boosh episode about 60s revival rock n’ roll. After all, solid rock recipes never really grow old. They just…
Visc. – Dirty Rotten Love
“Dirty Rotten Love” sounds like a song that Muse made while experimenting with the novel idea of having fun for a change and the even more outrageous idea of under-playing their virtuoso abilities. Visc. possesses those kinds of…
Nina Simone, Ted Nugent - Work Song (Remix by SUSU)
September 4, 2020
The most striking type of protest music doesn’t even need to relate to what the is. The topic that deserves righteous anger is revealed through the very actions of the artists. It’s the case here.
SUSO creates a collage of Ted Nugent’s most famous song…
Hollyy - Wondering Why (Review)
August 28, 2020
The authentic soul singing of the 1960s is relatively lost on new indie-rock records.
It’s odd, given that everything which was interesting has been recycled into new genres and styles. This, perhaps, has to do with the difficulty of getting someone to sing as…