29.02.2024-LEONORE BOULANGER Practice Chanter (Le Saule,2019)

 

AVANT-FOLK

     On their fourth album of deconstructed chanson, Boulanger and Jean-Daniel Botta, assisted by drummer and percussionist Laurent Seriès, have taken a major step up. If previous album Feigen Feigen was, by the band’s own admission, something of a puzzle then Practice Chanter could be likened to a mosaic, due to the sheer quantity and variety of sonic fragments that is somehow made to cohere in these 16 wild, wonderful tracks. 

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

28.02.2024-CHROMATICS Closer To Grey (Italians Do It Better,2019)

 

ELECTRONIC

     Chromatics have completely left behind their original punk, lo-fi, noisy, chaotic sound and instead grown into their “Italo-Disco”-influenced sound of more recent times. However, you can arguably hear little gems of punk in the guitars of tracks like “Through the Looking Glass” but served in a way the kids of today who get off on ’80s nostalgia they weren’t even here for can get behind. Tracks like “Light as a Feather” boast layered harmonic vocals and utterly creepy piano melodies, which make for an undeniably interesting “Chromatics-gone-murderers” vibe.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/2iy8mw

27.02.2024-VONDELPARK Seabed (R&S,2013)

 

INDIE POP

     The UK R&B trio Vondelpark mix indie-pop vulnerability with sonic luxuriance. Arriving after a couple of EPs, their debut LP is the fullest realization of the project's immersive smoothness.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/xkwg98

26.02.2024-CHELSEA WOLFE Abyss (Sargent House,2016)

 

DARKWAVE

   Chelsea Wolfe is an L.A. singer-songwriter with a taste for black veils and other unabashed goth affectations. But her fifth LP shows she’s much more than a gimmick. Her voice is more confident than it’s ever been, whether it’s bathed in industrial noise on the opener, “Carrion Flowers,” or backed by ghostly fingerpicking on “Survive.” When she sings, “My heart is a tomb/My heart is an empty room,” on the loud-quiet-loud single “Iron Moon,” you can see a thousand teens lip-syncing dramatically in their bedrooms. There’s no mistaking the real hurt in these songs — throughout Abyss, Wolfe uses her pain as a powerful tool, revealing the beauty underneath it.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/voyj43

25.02.2024-DANZ CM The Absurdity Of Human Existence (Channel 9,2021)

 

ELECTRONIC

     ‘The Absurdity of Human Existence’ is the first album by DANZ CM, formally known as COMPUTER MAGIC.

     New York based Danz Johnson is the synth girl behind both vehicles with a passion for the development of the electronic music.

     “I outgrew COMPUTER MAGIC. I outgrew the shy bedroom pop girl a long time ago” said Danz Johnson when she announced the birth of DANZ CM and certainly the innocence of her previous work is certainly absent on ‘The Absurdity of Human Existence’.

     What is in its place is a more intense presence and a wider ambition exploring different music styles and timbres while still remaining at its core, the creation of a talented woman who has overcome her shyness and had the courage to engage with and learn from some of the biggest names in synth.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/l1r3nb

24.02.2024-FLORIST Emily Alone (Double Double Whammy,2019)

 

INDIE FOLK

     Emily Alone is a collection of songs made by Florist songwriter Emily Sprague during a time of great stillness and isolation with the self. An attempt to capture the dark spaces between change and acknowledge their beauty. It is a natural, isolated, and momentary tangent away from the otherwise collaborative project that is Florist, while still maintaining the documentary nature of the band that, like all things, is a mutable entity in this universe. 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/2d3qft

21.02.2024-LIGHT ASYLUM Light Asylum (Mexican Summer,2012)

 

ELECTRONIC

     Light Asylum as less of a breath of fresh air on the synth revival scene as there are a duo of badass bandits kicking down the door of staleness and screaming, shouting and doing whatever the fuck they like. That kind of tenacity and ferociousness is what a scene and its ‘sters’ need sometimes – a bloody good kick up the arse, and so far in 2012, no-one’s boots seem more suited to the task than those of Shannon Funchess and Bruno Coviello.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/s9k27j