On her debut album, Soma, Ahana – with her elaborate embroidery of a heritage, originally being both Portuguese and Northern Indian – takes the focus off of everything but the body. Then she takes you through a swooping journey on which you discover that the things you thought you were looking for are not the things you long to find. And the body has all the answers if you care or dare to ask.
A sprawling odyssey of sound, the new album from Camberley this trio is awash with musical versatility and artistic ambition.
The newest chapter in East Bay ska core is here, and you need to hear it.
This certainly has medicinal qualities, because this is an album of pure electronic-pop perfection that will take you on a journey through loss, grief, hope and happiness.
If things feel like they are falling down the drain and threatening to take you with it, Static Spirit may be the album for you.
Through natural disasters, deaths, broken relationships and relocations comes DOGSTAR I, the first in a cathartic 2 album set from multi-instrumentalist and producer Jacob Klein.
On Negation of Negation, over a whirring, staticky noise-rock score, Chicago-based band, Funeral Plain proposes that destruction is essentially a form of change. And losing yourself implicitly raises the possibility that you will find yourself; and that when you do, you will discover nothing, or in lyricist, Jonny Gill’s words, ‘no-thing.’ This record argues, as Jonny Gill told me, that there is no innate being, just a continual process of becoming. But first you have to lose yourself.
Clear your calendar and spend time with this album’s intricate, fleeting, genre blending chapters.
Born from a place of isolation and reclusiveness, this cinematic – but also somehow subtle – concept album is very much a job well done.
This instrumental album understands your sense of fear and gives you a crackle of tranquility and hope within the madness.
Van Doorn’s new record blends power pop, blues, and jazz to give live energy and stress the importance of keeping a steady pace on the road and in life.
With more of dark New Wave jangle pop sound than “house banger”, the LA duo’s third album teaches that life – even the more menial moments – is the party.
On their new full-length album, the LA ska band bursts forth with a wake up call for anyone who needs to wake up and experience joy.
Made entirely by himself, the San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalists 8th album is a fine mixture of musical ambition and impressive singular vision.
In the new indie punk symphony, songwriter Grant Simmons ruminates on how to grapple with an increasingly inhospitable hometown and more unwelcoming world.
This rad groove is audaciously implanted into a mix of opposite aesthetics
“Annalies Tang has beautiful vocals, the horns accent the song beautifully, and the ska rhythm on the guitar feels light and pleasant.”
The Leeds-based shoegaze trio takes their many years of experience melting faces on stage and transfers it into ten tracks that make up their debut LP.
A good twelve minutes of solid angst and attitude from Providence, recorded live to tape in keeping with true punk ethos.
NEU is a modern indie triumph which cements Rupit as a pioneer of his unique sound, thematically rich and lyrically impressive.
