Category: Music Reviews
White Blush: ‘Loves Park’ EP
Carol Rhyu’s independent project, White Blush, continues to grow and is well worth the listen this summer while you welcome warm winds and cool sheets. White Blush’s most recent EP, Loves Park, is one you’ll want to know sooner than later for its sheer simplicity and natural beauty. Rest and relaxation accompanies this EP. Loves…
Cherub: ‘Year of the Caprese’
I don’t know what it is, but I’ve noticed a huge wave of bands (usually all white) with major 90’s R&B influences popping up all over the place. From HAIM to Daft Punk, this resurgence has become the new trend in dance music, and Cherub is no exception. They’re new album, Year of the Caprese,…
The Wonder Revolution: ‘WOW’
Rocks, trees and other organics are the driving force behind The Wonder Revolution’s new LP WOW, and the genre of “wondermusic” it strives to create. Whimsical sounds and capricious melodies are the heart of the album, blended together in a seemingly made-up-on-the-spot way, winding along like an abandoned mountain road. The album, which features a…
Gunakadeit: “South”
Natasha Kozaily’s new pop project Gunakadeit (pronounced Goo-na’-ka-date) is named after a Tlingit legend about a sea monster that brought prosperity and good luck to a village in crisis. Natasha was raised by a Lebanese father and a native Islander mother on the small island of Grand Cayman in the Caribbean. She studied ethnomusicology in…
Aloud: ‘It’s Got To Be Now’
On Facebook, Aloud describes themselves as a “nationally touring four piece rock n’ roll band with lots of hooks, lots of harmonies, lots of guitars, and lots heart. Dig it.” Their passion for music really comes out in their lively vocals and upbeat sound. It’s Got to Be Now both enlivens and creates a carefree…
Lykke Li: ‘I Never Learn’
It’s finally here; Lykke Li’s third album, I Never Learn. Three years since her second album, Wounded Rhymes, and six years since her first, Youth Novels, Lykke Li has developed beautifully but has also remained true to the unique style that captured our ears from the beginning. I Never Learn is an amalgamation of emotions;…
The GOASTT: ‘Midnight Sun’
Sean Lennon borrows the mid-sixties’ tribe-y feel from his father and blends it with dynamic instrumental and electronic elements on The GOASTT’s new album, Midnight Sun, released April 29th via Chimera Music. The GOASTT, or The Ghost of a Sabre Tooth Tiger as it is called in long form, is the creative love child of…
Elephant: ‘Sky Swimming’
London natives Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck collaborate to create their debut full-length album, Sky Swimming, out April 29. On Elephant’s Facebook, they describe the album as “a conclusion that songwriting and documentation should only be accomplished by the turn of night, and should never leave comfort and safety of the bedroom.” This musical theory…
Sledding With Tigers: ‘A Necessary Bummer’
“Not folk enough for folk and not punk enough for punk.” These are the words we’ve seen used to describe Sledding With Tigers, who just released a new album at a name-your-own-price rate on their website. Despite finding themselves in genre limbo, the band’s latest offering, A Necessary Bummer, manages to capture the honesty that…
Woodfangs: ‘Future Vistas’
In case you were wondering – no, punk is not dead in Athens, Ga. In an almost satanic fury of screeching vocals and dark psych-rock comes Woodfangs, a local Athens band with a worldly sense of attitude. On their newest album, Future Vistas (out May 26 — keep your ears open), we take a journey…