MUSIC REVIEWS

URL: http://www.goldlightmusic.com/ A rustic harmonica and its complementary guitar melody are waiting to greet us at the onset of “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” the opening salvo that starts us off in Gold Light and Snakemusk’s Shadows In The Shallows, which is due to be released this coming May …

2019 has produced a mixed bag of results so far, and following with that trend, Kingdom of Birds’ new EP Glitz mashes together a similarly eclectic collection of studs and duds this spring. In songs like “Your Friends,” we experience Kingdom of Birds at their most reserved, but more importantly, their most …

URL: http://jeffreyhalford.com/ Instrumentally speaking, the latest album from Jeffrey Halford & the Healers – titled West Towards South – tells us a story as grand as its lyrics do in surreal songs like “A Town Called Slow,” “Ballad of Ambrose and Cyrus,” “Deeper Than Hell” and the title track. Progressively stylized but …

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/50vBpQeIQqm2c3iLor6B3N  Canadian born Drake Jensen has a handful of studio albums to his credit and his latest single “Talk Me Down” shows the signs of continuing growth we hope to hear from talented artists and songwriters. This new single is culled from his latest album, 2019’s Sideshow, and while it …

Nigerian Afrobeat/R&B performer and songwriter Victor Pedro draws from a variety of influences for his unique brand of pop music like Chris Brown, UB40, Wizkid, and others. Based out of South Africa, Pedro has experienced considerable success since his 2013 debut, but Pedro has blazed a trail towards global recognition …

Canada’s own Midnight Shine get experimental in their new single and music video, a cover of “Heart of Gold” (originally by Neil Young, for those few who aren’t already aware), with debatably affective results depending on how you choose to consume it. The song starts off familiarly, to such a …

URL: https://www.charliemariemusic.com/ Lap steel guitars poetically make merry with a jittery percussive track in “Rhinestones.” The electric grooves peppering the otherwise plaintive rhythm seem to sweep us clean off of our feet, much like the gilded strumming that adorns the opening bars of “Rodeo” does every time we give it …

URL: https://www.projectgrandslam.com/ Galloping out of the ashy remains of “Torpedo of Love,” Robert Miller’s bubbly bass sparks our attention as “I Don’t Know Why” comes roaring into existence in the eleventh track of Project Grand Slam’s PGS 7. The four-string ferocity is a beast to say the least, although it …

“From a third-person view, you got your friends in the moon, each one looking at you / What’s the matter, why you closing your eyes? What a pointless disguise, only think that you hide,” Trevor Drury sings in his signature honeysweet voice, his vocal peppering a sophisticated piano-driven melody that …

URL: http://www.adrunksdreamcomestrue.com/ Tommy Botz is a songwriter on a journey that is said to be one of “hardship, compassion, and redemption.” And out of that long story comes the song “Teddy Bear,” sung by Logan Wells, and written by Botz, for a fellow inmate while locked up in an Ohio …