MUSIC REVIEWS

Emma DeCorsey releases The Dream (EP)

Emma DeCorsey releases The Dream (EP) BANDCAMP: https://iamthepolisharmy.bandcamp.com/album/the-dream A colorful, echoing guitar lick segues into a throttling, bottom-heavy march in “Gold,” the introductory track in Emma DeCorsey’s solo EP The Dream. Studded with a fiery groove that is tempered under DeCorsey’s melodic growl, “Gold” pendulously struts through a mess of distortion …

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The Blackmail Seduction release follow-up LP

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TheBlackmailSeduction/ This is confident, strutting music not afraid to pursue its own ends and blissfully dismissive of any modern tradition. The Blackmail Seduction’s new release The Blackmail Seduction II doesn’t treat rock music like a butterfly pinned under glass however; instead, the songs discussed here are among the most stunning re-inventions …

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Jim Clements – A Failure

URL: https://www.jimclementsmusic.com/ Life is an unpredictable rollercoaster ride, but amidst all of the discord that it renders one consistent element that’s always there for us is music. When we’ve had a hard day, there’s a song to make us feel better. When we’re faced with an important decision that we …

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Don Babylon release Foul!

URL: http://donbabylon.com/ The ten songs on Don Babylon’s new album Foul! are unapologetically autobiographical, but it doesn’t prove to be any sort of impediment towards listeners finding their way into this release. Aubrey Neeley’s songwriting finds a way to make even the experience of playing in a rock band universal to his …

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Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite release LP

URL: http://patientlyawaitingthemeteorite.band/ For those of us who live for progressive music that dexterously pushes us to reexamine the structure of sound and artistry itself, Canadian rockers Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite have gifted us an album for the ages in Canyon Diablo, their spellbinding debut LP out everywhere this year. PATM invoke …

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Deep in the Water LP by Gary Douglas Band

URL: http://www.garydouglasband.com/ The single “River Road” is what got me hooked on the Gary Douglas Band, and the album from which it was spawned, Deep in the Water. Deep in the Water might as well be a greatest hits disc encapsulating every great country song that should have been released between 2008 and …

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Saint Jaimz – Absent Without Love (AWOL)

AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Absent-Without-Love-Awol/dp/B079TLDVS3 Saint Jaimz’s “AWOL (Absent Without Love)” exhibits some obvious musical debts, but they are never so heavy handed that Jaimz’s music sounds beholden to his influences. He mixes a variety of approaches with his latest single release, but the bedrock sound is retro-styled R&B with a silky soulful …

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Abby Zotz – Local Honey (LP) 

LAST FM: https://www.last.fm/music/Abby+Zotz/Local+Honey Walking down the sidewalk of a green neighborhood street, Abby Zotz’ new video “Good Bones” starts off the way any other day would in Zotz life; a guitar strung over her back, a smile on her face and a song in her heart just waiting to be …

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Moonshiner’s Daughter by Cindy G.

URL: http://www.cindygbluegrass.com/ The subtle chicken pickin’ of a guitar greets us in the opening seconds of the title track of Moonshiner’s Daughter, the inspiring new bluegrass album from none other than Pennsylvania’s very own Cindy G. She passionately sings “I’m nothing more than a Moonshiner’s Daughter,” and her words echo through the …

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Elsewhere Band release new EP

URL: http://www.elsewhere-band.com/ As a music journalist, a big part of my job is finding the appropriate labels and defining terms to attach to bands and solo artists so that audiences can have an easier time finding what they want to listen to. Classification is essential to categorization, but even though …

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