With her new composition, ‘Wonderness,’ Julia Thomsen goes out into a world of possibilities. The composer pierces the heartstrings, providing an emotional experience with her ethereal piano structures, sending us on a voyage to utopia. The British music composer has a long list of magnificent compositions, and she has graced the classical radios for several years. The beauty of her
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Okami Three’s game plan for its single “Blue”, which hits the streets a couple months back, is readily apparent from its artwork.
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Optacure’s got quite a cut on his hand with “Stray”, his latest release.
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Post-hardcore band Garden Home are out with their debut music video, which accompanies “Ghost” from their recent “Postmortem EP.” Shot by Samer Ghani, the scene here finds the band playing in the dark as a lone light flickers about, bringing the substantially emotional themes of the song in full force. Note that it’s in black-and-white while already being shot in
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Experimental-electronic artist Andres Crovetti has a new single out. Spanning six and a half minutes long, it’s an ocean of synthesizers that evokes awe. The electronics gradually strip down in the second half but continue dancing alongside atmospheric samples until static swallows everything in the final minute. Find yourself in a digital trance with Andres Crovetti’s “0nE.”
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Emo hip hop-industrial artist X Harlow is out with a new EP today. This release is five tracks and expands the medieval influences and coldwave cacophonies of their previous records but with a heavier lyrical component. These songs touch on addiction and drug-related deaths, expressing grief and disgust through confrontational social critiques. X Harlow has always stylistically blurred the lines
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“Tried and True”, the newest single from Julia Pratt, is altogether something else.
Read moreYou can tell Mint June had fun putting together the Surrendering Nina EP, which just dropped at the end of last month.
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Pop rockers Jennifer Andrea and the Drive Down are out with a new video and song. It’s about being crazy about someone, unable to contain yourself. Shot by Eric Dolister, the visuals here alternate between the band playing in a dim-lit venue and a well-dressed woman having intimate moments with either Andrea or guitarist Garret Holm. The Drive Down bring
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Minimal dubstep producer Die By the Sword has a new EP out. Think of the end credits for a movie where you did something difficult but you knew you had to do it – that’s what the title track feels like. “Terminal” follows it up with a tense, showdown-esque sensibility that keeps you at the edge of your chair. Die
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Harsh noise duo Normal Rituals have a new record out on FTAM Productions. It’s two tracks each about twenty minutes long, featuring guitar, synthesizer, and scrap metal. Things are plucked and played sporadically yet spaciously, carefully yet chaotically. Eli Smith and Peter Woods explore different paths of sonic communication with “Double Gesture.”
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‘Dead Inside’, Jayson Banks’ latest release, is up there with the most potent new releases in 2022. Jayson is landing here for the first time, and he has left many of us wondering why it has taken so long to witness his brilliance! Jayson is as vibrant as they come, blending his own components into a pop-rock soundtrack that other
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Neoclassical dream pop duo Nuisance have a music video to accompany “Nidificate” from their fantastic new album “Kuchisabishii.” With a grainy quality, the scene here features a woman sketching a halved apple sitting on a tree stump. Some shots are done in reverse, like she’s un-drawing it, putting into perspective how carefully and intentionally she’s putting perceptions to the paper.
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It’s time to check in with psychedelic folk pop artist Kyle John Kenowski, who has been gradually adding songs to his “infinite” album “Ourugorus Garden.” He’s got three new ones out and each has its own cartoonish, playful flare. “Singtuary” combines Mario-esque video game music, tambura samples, and cuckoo field recordings with Kenowski’s signature yelps. “Papier-mache” has a collage-like quality
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Milwaukee’s beloved drag queen Trixie Mattel released a new single recently in collaboration with Americana artist Shakey Graves. It’s an acoustic tune about small town blues; you either never settle down or you never come home. Mattel takes the first two verses while Graves has the third, swapping tales of honest feelings before they harmonize so delicately in the chorus.
Read moreNow, take a track like “Lovely People”, one of the final songs on the recently released You’re My Pride and Joy, Etc. EP from Walking Apollo.
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Jam-blues rockers Blind Fiction are out with their first single in three years today. It’s got the explosive energy of a band that’s been excited to put out something new; the song touches on outliving the bad times and being more comfortable living in the shadows. That’s a common sentiment these days, and it helps to rock out about it
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Psych-chamber folk band Social Caterpillar are out with a new EP today. Consisting of two songs, this release touches on trauma and coping. “Bleed Tonight” is about growing up in an abusive household while “Closer to Closure” is like a love letter to oneself, acknowledging the pain that remains while also acknowledging how far you’ve come. The songs are coupled
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Experimental jazz artist Andrew Trim is out with a new record. With the likes of Barry Paul Clark on bass, Nick Lang on drums and Dan Pierson on keyboards, Trim brings a flurry of ensnaring rhythms and lively psychedelia. The quartet dwell from a place of immediacy and intention, reaching mesmerizing altitudes through precise creative communication. If you’re looking for
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Glitch Project are soaring with their new single, ‘NBR’, their first release of 2022 and one which will be playing ut for a long time as the year unfolds. Furthermore, it all begins with a harrowing synth overture that ushers us into dreamland. Maida then jumps forward to the microphone, confidently launching into her speech, keeping us enthralled. The prelude
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Nuisance is a new collaboration between BJ Seidel and Ryan Weber that combines dream pop with modern classical elements. Fantastical and meticulous, “Kuchisabishii” (Japanese for “lonely mouth”) enchants us with virtually manipulated instruments and feathery vocals over twelve tracks. Most songs are only about two minutes long, where each is like a burst of succinct brilliance. The album took two
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Chamber rockers Nineteen Thirteen have a new single out. It’s pretty self-explanatory; Janet Schiff’s soaring cello accompanies Victor DeLorenzo’s determined drum pattern long enough to swell into an epic, adventurous anthem. A monologue takes place in the second half, acting like a sort of guided meditation describing the instruments interacting with one another. This could be a solid end credits
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Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass has a new album out. Alex Steinmetz describes it as “dead serious authentic circus music” that gets progressively muddier as time goes on. Some tracks have techno sensibilities while others carry industrial electronica; there’s gruesome imagery of gouged eyes, severed heads, worms, a frog becoming a person, and other monstrosities. Death Tape Super
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The new year has gotten off to a flying start for music, and still sending a wave across the scene is Freelevel’s uplifting pop-rock track, ‘New Year Song’. Although it is not a new release in the sense that it was released many years ago, it has a fresh lustre, and the band from Europe have given it a new
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It’s an exciting time for house producer Thomas Xavier. This past week he launched his own label Pharaoh Phonix, and to kick things off he’s released a new single with his first-ever music video. He’s found doing his thing behind the booth, enjoying a blunt as the show goes on. There’s something special about music videos where the artist is
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