30.09.2023-SOME VELVET MORNING Rough Seas (Rodega,2021)

 

INDIE ROCK

     “Rough Seas”, a group has released during the pandemic days/year(s), and this is an album with 10 tracks in. Some Velvet Morning are an  act, whose interesting spheres touches several genres options, as  : alter/indie rock/pop, with additional of some folk/blues spices, and more late 80’s and 90’s details, whose presence in songs are concise and clear.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/cswpqp

27.09.2023-BRETON War Room Stories (Believe,2014)

 

INDIE / ELECTRONIC

    The boys professed to wanting to recreate the electricity that comes from playing live, a quality they’ve certainly captured over these 10 cuts. Driving guitar strums and lightning-paced drums break into rousing choruses on ‘S Four’ and ‘Legs & Arms’, with emotion-laden wails from frontman Roman Rappak. Proving that the recorder and harpsichord marry happily with juddering synth sounds comes ‘302 Watch Towers’, while ‘Got Well Soon’ (video below) unfolds like a motorbike revving its engine.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/pe2ae5

25.09.2023-KUEDO Infinite Window (Brainfeeder,2022)

 

AMBIENT / SYNTHWAVE

   On Jamie Teasdale’s third solo album, the UK musician balances razor-sharp bass music with beatless electronic sketches that could double as science-fiction soundtracks.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/isrfej

24.09.2023-LIFE ON VENUS Encounters (Shelflife,2017)

 

SHOEGAZE

     Encounters collects everything great in shoegaze and adds this unique space-ness to create something truly magical.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/l65hl4

21.09.2023-AIR WAVES Parting Glances (Western Vinyl,2015)

 

INDIE ROCK

   On her second album as Air Waves, Nicole Schneit jettisons some of the twang that marked her 2010 debut, opting for urban chug over playful Americana. And though she brings on collaborators like Lower Dens’ Jana Hunter and Ava Luna’s Felicia Douglass, she winds up streamlining her sound instead of expanding it.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/ma0hg5

18.09.2023-TEEN DAZE Themes For Dying Earth (Flora,2017)

 

INDIE POP

     Responding to harsh realities, Jamison Isaak uses softsynths, guitar amps, and his sensitive way with melody to craft an idyllic space.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/f4ci6a

16.09.2023-NZCA LINES Infinite Summer (Memphis Industries,2016)

 

SYNTHPOP

    Described on their own website as “electronic rock,” Infinite Summer does see NZCA Lines move towards a slightly more ambitious rock sound; the guitar solo (of sorts) on “How Long Does It Take,” for example, is one indicator as to why guitarist Charlotte Hatherley (yes, from Ash and Bat For Lashes) and Hot Chip drummer Sarah Jones have been added to the live line-up.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/hf6q9p

12.09.2023-I'M WITH HER See You Around (Rounder,2018)

 

PROGRESSIVE BLUEGRASS

   Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan sing and strum in beautiful harmony on their full-length debut.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/cddpfj

11.09.2023-ALEXIA AVINA A Little Older (Lost Map,2022)

 

ALTERNATIVE FOLK

     ‘A Little Older’ is a continuation of Avina’s gentle and meditative alt folk pop, which displays her complete mastery of her craft.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/z6yet0

10.09.2023-PEAKING LIGHTS The Fifth State Of Consciousness (Two Flowers,2017)

 

PSYCHEDELIC POP

     Wisconsin based wife and husband duo Peaking Lights have made a career out of pushing the proverbial envelope. From 936’s spaceman dub to 2014’s more synth leaning, Cosmic Logic the band have never been afraid to experiment with heavy heavy sounds. This makes The Fifth State Of Consciousness all the more surreal. The album is almost a homage to the group’s past, rather than a bold leap into the unknown.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/2dn6ji

09.09.2023-ESTER BROHUS Heart Of The Country (DME,2018)

 

COUNTRY / FOLK

     Ester Brohus has always been herself. Choosing country music is in itself a unique sight in Denmark, although not as much as when she started. It is archetypal American music, often sentimental, banal and with the big emotions of longing and loneliness in swing. Many Americans love it, and indeed there are also many musicians and singers who do it insanely well. Country is a huge industry, very commercial, but it is not to everyone's taste.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/7us92x

06.09.2023-JESSIE WARE What's Your Pleasure? (PMR/EMI,2020)

 

POST-DISCO

     On her disco-inspired new album, Ware sounds bolder, looser — and frankly, more fun — than she has in a near-decade.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/09p28g

04.09.2023-JESCA HOOP Memories Are Now (Sub Pop,2017)

 

INDIE FOLK

   At 39 minutes, there’s hardly a wasted moment on Memories Are Now. It's the rare folk record that never allows you to zone out or simply engage with it as a collection of lilting melodies and ornate instrumentals. Hoop has been producing thought-provoking, arresting folk music since Kismet was released nearly a decade ago, but this is her most cutting, cohesive, and critical record yet.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/3c75ef

03.09.2023-HIGH HIGHS Cascades (Never Leave Never Sleep,2016)

 

INDIE ROCK

     An Australian record written while living in New York with a title inspired by a drive through the Cascade Mountains on the West Coast, resulting in a dreamy mix of synth and indie-pop and an accomplished second album.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/aexvzc

02.09.2023-GARY WAR Jared's Lot (Spectrum Spools,2012)

 

HYPNOGOGIC POP

     A former Haunted Graffiti member, Gary War (aka Greg Dalton) often gets shortsighted alongside his peers, Ariel Pink and John Maus. Arguably, the most experimental of that crowd, War tends to resist the nostalgic impulse in Pink’s music and precludes the pop chops of Maus. On Jared’s Lot, this sensibility is accentuated even further than in the past. Here, he hides razor-sharp angularity under a fog of reverb and contorts a melody’s crooked gait into an impenetrable Fibonacci sequence of retro-futurist arpeggio bedlam.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/i9l8sv