Music is so heavily programmed these days, you can almost hear the tick of the clock in every studio minute. Breaths are erased, vocals go through auto-tune until they sound like something from the lab, and each tiny blip and glitch is taken straight to the editing room for interrogation. Australian outsider-art musician, Hurb Jephasun,
First, a word or two about the ukulele: it has a reputation. Show-it-off-at-the-beach or throw-some-cover-songs-at-a-party-and-hope-somebody-takes-interest or buy-some-to-make-you-want-to-buy-a-car commercial mode. And, of course, Winchester 7 & the Runners decided to get into all that by plugging one in and starting an indie rock band. Somehow, though, it works. On No Worse For Wear, the electric tenor
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Your brain is a lousy roommate. It never pays rent, eats all your snacks, and is remarkably adept at reminding you of that one thing you did in 2014 at the worst possible time… right when you’re trying to sleep. That internal babbling, meanwhile? That’s the core of Nellie Feldmann‘s latest project, When The World
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Teenage pop’s idea of adolescence is one long contradiction. In five minutes flat you can be sure of yourself and totally insecure. Five minutes can have you burning with obsession over the next person, then so sure of yourself that nobody else matters. An hour ago you were going to love yourself for evermore, now
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There’s a line between “it sounds old” and “we understand why it worked so well before.” Lyons Lane seems to get it. The Michigan five-piece conjures up rockabilly, doo-wop and 1950s Americana on their debut EP You’ll Talk About It! but it doesn’t sound like a band with a museum exhibit dedicated to the Fifties.
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Two songs. An entire orchestra. A spiritual awakening. A mental breakdown. All that packed with enough baggage to fill a 26-track double album. Double A Side 2 (Akaroa / Erica And The Stars) by Reetoxa is an EP but is delivered with all the bombast of a full-blown rock opera and with the emotional nuance
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You just got to love it when EPs are named exactly like how it sounds. THROES NYC’s The Wires Out is pretty much that—everything is exposed, buzzing, sparking, and maybe one bad decision away from catching fire. THROES NYC is the brainchild of Queens, NY natives Michael Bozzo and Courtney Leo, who have been making
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Floyds Row’s The Carlisle Sessions is a five-track EP that digs through old folk material and gives it a fresh coat of paint without pretending the past needs to be perfectly recreated. The group, formed out of collaborations at the University of Oxford, approaches traditional music less like a museum exhibit and more like a
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R.A.P.by Realest$Gold offers a glimpse of an artist finding her voice across four tracks Art is never one to dictate the rules and it doesn’t tell us that to grow we need to start changing our sound entirely, run to a different studio or declare we have reached a ‘new era’. For Realest$Gold’s four-track EP,
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You’d have to have an extreme level of self-confidence to name your EP Void Where Inhibited. It sounds less like a rap title and more like the sentence at the bottom of a contract that you were absolutely supposed to read before signing. Which in fairness, makes it a pretty good name for a project
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