Urban psychedelia - New music reviews September 2020
September 25, 2020
Гибкий Чаплинъ – …and here is the kangaroo
One of the numerous great things about modern life, all nihilism aside, is the possibility of being able to access various music genres from across the world. And, as luck would have it, the deeper and…
ASHRR - WAVES (Review)
September 24, 2020
One gets the feeling that for ASHRR style is just as important as substance. This is not at all a bad proposition when it comes to the rigours of rock n’ roll, one of the few businesses where the right haircut can get you through years of cashing paychecks.
With…
Errorr - Wrong Direction (Review)
September 24, 2020
Somewhere in the mid-1980s, the groups that would later be labelled as shoegaze were keen to throw away out the book on music production. Instead, they were concerned with creating Phil Spectoreque walls of sound with feedback and noise used as bricks and mortar of their…
In Theaters Friday - Lightly (Review)
September 24, 2020
Pop music has always been the more willing to please relative to rock in all of its various incarnations. Most often, when handled superficially, it leads to jingles, poor imitations, or, at best, a quickly outdated fad. When done right, it’s one of life’s most…
Gone Sugar Die - Eyeliner (Review)
September 22, 2020
Truth be told, most bands should just skip on the intro. Often times it’s pointless. Not here though. Gone Sugar Die sound so giddily demented from the very first seconds of Eyeliner, that not listening to the tune is purely a strategic error.
Sounding like early…
Kevin Johnson & Nick Bowen - Death Wish (Review)
September 22, 2020
“Death Wish” by Kevin Johnson & Nick Bowen sounds like a tune commissioned for a film-students’ project of directing a western movie. While it sounds, for the most part, just like what you’d imagine such a tune to resemble, the enthusiasm of the…
Cruza - Let Me In (Review)
September 22, 2020
Cruza are the kind of project that, historically, record label execs, of which some are still present in the music business, go wild over. The group is a smooth amalgamation of various elements that apart, or packaged together should, technically, perform well with audiences…
Western Media - White Canoe (Review)
September 22, 2020
I haven’t heard a more desolate soundscape than “White Canoe” in a long time. Echoing Neil Young, and his fierce plagiarists, America, Western Media are not a group/project in a rush to prove themselves through their singles.
It takes nearly a whole…
Modern storytelling - Indie-folk reviews September 2020
September 22, 2020
Mighty Joe Nolan – Lone Wolves, Together
In the early 2000s, while emo-rock was frightening parents the world over, a new trend was mutating into a mainstream powerhouse. Scene music was, in many ways, the lighter version of emo. The image of scene kids dominated…