MUSIC REVIEWS

Nick Demopoulos, working under the moniker Smomid, produces musical compositions defying tradition and pushing listener’s ideas about songcraft into challenging new areas. It is key for readers and potential listeners to recognize what awaits them before hearing this release for a first time. He writes and records music with self-designed …

With the cadence of an elevated heartbeat, Nocturnal Blonde kick off their new album Still Gushing with an evocative drumbeat and a burning vocal harmony between Rachel Adams and Richie Williams in the first of the twelve tracks that Williams wrote with his brother Dave, “Smart Heart.” “Smart Heart” shoulders a beast …

Allocai is reaching out to a lonesome world in this single The last few months have produced some seriously sweet pop music on both sides of the dial in the United States, but few in the American indie underground have been garnering the kind of attention that Jamaican-born R&B crooner …

OFFICIAL URL: https://www.rebeccabinnendyk.com/ In her latest single, titled “Brick by Brick,” Rebecca Binnendyk delivers some of the most chilling vocal harmonies of the season in what many critics have deemed her breakthrough moment as a singer/songwriter. Right from the onset of the piano’s understated melody, we’re entrapped in Binnendyk’s web …

Fans of alternative music have been demanding a lot more from bands lately, and this summer there’s one group that has been answering back with a pre-album single that seems perfectly timed for the needs of contemporary listeners. I’m talking, of course, about the Sharon Lia Band and their new …

In the first few frames of the music video for “We Could Be In Love,” a girl in cowboy boots is walking alone on a rural bridge, gripping the white pearls around her neck and contemplating her surroundings in silence when The Promised suddenly lay into the soaring lead harmony …

“Contravertical,” the opening track in Kazyak’s new record Odyssey, begins in a haze of distorted spoken word and synthesized clouds that churn into a solid harmony by the time we hit the forty-second mark in the track. The music drones forward with a confident ease, unraveling one note at a time, …

In Other Words, the new LP from the one and only Paul Jacks, comes pre-loaded with a lot of compositional contradictions, but it’s these contrasting points of aesthetical wonderment that form the most intriguing moments its ten songs have to offer those who listen this August. The growl of a …

Mutlu’s new album Good Trouble opens with the winning track “Lifeline”. It’s an ideal way to kick off the release thanks to the way it is sure to bring live audiences together, but also illustrates his songwriting acumen for those unfamiliar with Mutlu’s work. Percussion anchors “Lifeline”, but there’s strong acoustic guitar …

After four long years, Nicholas Altobelli is finally back in the spotlight with some new material in the form of Vertigo, a 35-minute studio album packed with more haunting harmonies than most records twice its length are. Altobelli introduces us to fiery riffage in “Runaway Trains,” pastoral poeticisms in “Everybody …