MUSIC REVIEWS

With pulsating melodic ribbonry to lead the way, “The Distance Between Us,” the first song in SoloS’ new self-titled EP, starts to wrap its slender hook around us with a relaxed ease. These first couple of bars are more than enough to lull listeners into a false sense of security …

A gentle vocal utters sweet French verses to us against a slowly blossoming melody from a nearby guitar, its strings easily as evocative as any single lyric ever could be – if not a bit more so, when it counts the most – as the elegant “Roses De Picardie” begins …

In the original incarnation of AV Super Sunshine’s “Smile,” which was first released back in 2016 on the Bass Face EP, an acoustic guitar provides a near-perfect foundational melody for the acclaimed AV to weave together a soft but brooding lead vocal, and though its strings play a smaller role in “Smile …

Hollywood’s Moon Fever arrive with a mandate to enter rock’s first ranks with their new single “Casanova”/ The five piece outfit are wildly successful revamping of a bracing retro rock sound they bring into the modern era. Their songwriting shows remarkable maturity and it’s thrilling to consider where they can …

It can be hard for cover bands to convey the same sense of emotionality that their source once did – most often in iconic fashion – but that’s not the case for Stingchronicity, an east coast Sting/Police cover act that have been making big waves in the underground circuit recently. …

American folk music has never been as diverse a genre as it is today, and that’s more than obvious even when engaging in a cursory listening session with Haley Johnsen’s London Sessions (Live From Abbey Road, 2020). Johnsen, a product of the Oregon underground, isn’t content to rehash the same rhythm …

Fragments of a harmony bubble and crash into one another in a violent, but ultimately slow-motion, volley as we listen in on the first few moments of “Aurora,” the first track in JD Lion’s new record Northern Lights, but while this opening salvo is indeed quite enamoring from the jump, it …

“There You Are” is the latest single release from rocker Jack Pfeffer. The song is rock in its purest form and ventures into indie pop territories. Relying on strong vocal delivery, interesting guitar work and bass rhythms, Pfeffer keeps the listener attached to his little ditty of a song. Sincerity …

Strings of Atlas’ new EP How Far We’ve Come With a guttural guitar’s venomously distorted melody to lead the way, “Gone Away,” the opening cut in Strings of Atlas’ new EP How Far We’ve Come, comes to life with a ferociousness that will only grow stronger with each passing moment this firestorm …

As velvety and accessible as it is driven by a stirring poetry, the vocal that Mike Rickard lays down in “Taste Your Smile,” one of the smoother cuts from his album Out Loud, is perhaps the most sterling component that this phenomenally captivating track has for us to behold, but while …