Peel Dream Magazine – Agitprop Alterna
Peel Dream Magazine is the brainchild of New York based composer Joe Stevens. It features indie pop and shoegaze that’s heavily influenced by Stereolab and My Bloody Valentine, with its 2018 debut Modern Music Meta Physic being mostly a solo endeavor. In its sophomore album however, Peel Dream Magazine takes a step forward. Stevens is […]
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Toner – Silk Road
Silk Road is the second full length album and first studio venture for Oakland, CA based quartet Toner. Their sound has definitely hit its stride with this latest offering. Shades of glowing jangle are interspersed inside a wall distorted noise, with vocals carrying a laid-back, slacker vibe on the low end. The album follows bedroom […]
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Pia Fraus – Empty Parks
Empty Parks is the latest album from Pia Fraus. The band moves into a slightly different direction with this latest offering, featuring a poppier sound that’s bright and sweet, with scattered hints of melancholy. This album blends dream pop with glowing synths, shoegaze and blissful electronica, with a narrative carried by stacked male-female vocals. I […]
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Deserta – Black Aura My Sun
Black Aura My Sun is the debut album from Deserta – the solo project of Matthew Doty. Mat has had a lot of knowledge and expertise in shoegaze and post-punk, and he’s poured it all in this revelation of sound, an aural journey that stretches the bounds of imagination. The synths blend together masterfully, creating […]
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Angel Dust – Pretty Buff
It’s always refreshing to find someone taking something so familiar and spinning it in a new direction, sometimes it works so well that you wonder why other artists haven’t done it before. Such is the case for Broolyn’s Angel Du$t and their latest album Pretty Buff. You can lump this sound in the umbrella of […]
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Clarke and the Himselfs – Pot Sounds
Clarke and the Himselfs latest album Pot Sounds is a brilliant gem of indie rock. Its Melodies are bright and vibrant, a collection of pastel colors swirling around a field of lo-fi grunge and grit. Although there’s a substantial amount of edginess in its 11 tracks, it maintains an optimism that ends itself well to […]
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Soccer Mommy – Color Theory
Soccer Mommy’s sophomore album Color Theory is a gut punch of pure emotion. Nashville’s 22 year old singer-songwriter Sophie Allison has crafted a spectrum of emotions batched into three colors. Blue for sadness, yellow for illness and gray for loss. You’ll hear it loud and clear as Sophie bares it all with this intimate collection […]
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Rozwell Kid – Dreamboats 2
Dreamboats was released seven years ago, a collaborative project between Jordan Hudkins from West-Virginia’s Rozwell Kid and Dave Segedy from Indiana’s Sleeping Bag. The two met while on tour with their respective bands and immediately hit it off. This six track EP was a result of a back and forth email correspondence between the two. […]
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Ratboys – Printer’s Devil
It’s hard to put a finger on Printer’s Devil’s sound, each song is its own concoction that’s a puzzle to put into words. Their bandcamp page lists them as alternative, but that would be too broad, folk would not tell half of the story and the post-country in it is very subtle that you have […]
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Fox Academy – Angel Hair
Every now and then I come across an artist that seems to know something everyone else doesn’t. It’s like we’ve been doing it wrong all along. Fox Academy certainly knows what’s up with their latest LP Angel Hair and I’m not sure if they’re too keen in telling. Describing their sound is a daunting task, […]
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