Carol C carefully crafts All My Love, a slinky, sultry track that possesses considerable emotional depth during its run time. The track melds together Bjork and Massive Attack with a dreamy, ethereal sound. The guitar work that plays throughout the composition takes on hints of Disintegration-era Cure, while Carol C’s vocals play out at the top of the track. By standing at the corner of ambient, EDM, and pop music,…
A bassline burns its way through the tidal wave of grooves that are waiting to come down on us “Joyride.” It’s not nearly as ominous a contribution as it makes in the otherwise playful “Other Side,” but it’s still affective enough to stoke a reaction out of anyone within earshot of its menacing bellow. “Sola” takes a couple minutes to get warmed up, but once it’s at the right temperature…
Truxton Mile enters the thick brush that is modern country music. By the end of California In My Mind, Mile will have a bevy of followers. This is due to the considerable charisma he brights to the traqck, along with thick bass, splashy drums, and infectious beat that will bury itself deep into the minds and hearts of listeners. There’s a certain crossover appeal to California In My Mind that…
Sensy Girl is an effort that refreshes the R&B effort of performers like Sean Kingston and Jason Derulo. The blending of reggae and synth-pop ensures that fans will be lured out to the dance floor. A strong production ensures that the song will interest on a variety of levels. A robust tempo is precisely what will keep interest in Sensy Girl high throughout the single. We’d love to hear more…
Jae Mansa has dropped a pair of singles that bang hard. On YUNG KINGS, the blazing-fast flow of Mansa will require listeenrs to play the cut multiple times before hearing everything that has been palced within. A stark product builds upon the work of Run the Jewels. Smart, intense, and with enough dynamism to keep fans listeners throughout, YUNG KINGS is decidedly a hit. Fate is the track that will…
Pete Muller’s Let You In is an interesting track is it brings together traditional country & western, 1990s pop-country, and a bit of modern jazz and blues. The pair of vocals (Muller and Missy Soltero) included here paint considerably different pictures. We’re particularly in love with the richness of Pete’s vocals here. These lyrics are given a bit more depth through taut instrumentation, which establishes a robust backdrop. There’s a…
On Destitute, Like Machines are able to refresh and renovate the supersonic rock of acts like Queensryche and Machine Head. Charismatic vocals and sizzling guitar riffs are interlaced in the effort, with louder than life drums echoing out through listeners’ speakers. A proper polish is enough to glue together each part of Like Machines into a cohesive sound. We’re excited to hear more fro the band in the future, as…
Long before their music was co-opted for sappy TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy and One Tree Hill, the Scottish rock band Travis was churning out brilliant, guitar-centered music that oozed with emotion. No where is that clearer than on the just-released live set from the group’s 1999 appearance at the famed Glastonbury festival. Out for the first time on vinyl and CD thanks to Craft Recordings, the set captures the…
We’re in love with the music that King Deco lays down on Castaway (Don’t Leave Me). The track hasfat beats and a laid-back summer sound, all while the vocas call forth hints of Mandy Moore and Lily Allen. The rising and falling action of the song’s tempo ensures that one will be amped up at the end of the composition. Smooth production and smart arrangements ensure that the world will…
On Disko Anksiyete, She Past Away is able to blend together Depeche Mode, The Cure, and Bauhaus into a brilliant melange of synth-pop, gothic, and industrial genres. An insistent synth line and haunting vocals unite, enrobed in early-eighties glory. The video (attached below) shows that She Past Away is a multi-media act, providing younger fans with a look into what the first part of the decade tended to look like.…
Touching upon a bit of Hootie and the Blowfish and early nineties-era Neil Young, David Haerle is able to make a radio-ready softer rock track in his latest, Tell Your Story. The track takes fans through a cogent narrative while the dynamic established between the guitars, vocals, and on-point drums ensures that the effort could easily hang with current rock rotation. We’re particularly fans of the violin that is laid…
The considerable range that Jekalyn Carr achieves during I See Miracles is a sight to behold. There is so much in the way of harmony that is contributed to the track by Carr’s vocals. Fans of traditional gospel will adore the the choral elements that play at the background of the track. There is a firm backing of instrumentation that represents the cornerstone of the song. With so much to…
Are You Happy, the latest cut from AV Super Sunshine, is a robust effort that is able to refresh the rock of the 1960s and 1970s while inserting a bit of 1990s grunge and modern music into the mix. The back and forth with the lead and females vocals adds further complexity to the mix. Similarly, the instrumentation and supersonic vocals are able to coalesce into a toe-tapping track that…
On Ecstatic Baby, Yeasayer is able to call bnack to the alternative pop of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hints of Jesus Jones and Fine Young Cannibals can be heard here. A brilliant falsetto is matched through sci-fi synths and splashy drums. There is a vibrancy to Yeasayer’s latest that will keep listeners focused on the composition. As the band enters the last minute of Ecstatic Baby, the track…
URL: https://satellitesofmontreal.com/ A lot of artists are going old school with their music videos this summer and utilizing everything from DIY-style camcorder photography to stop-motion animation and other 80s-fashioned aesthetical looks, but there’s something quite unique about the four minute visual spectacle that Satellītes has made for us in the new music video for “Love & Disaster,” the title track of the debut album from Jasmine Bleile’s emerging solo venture.…
In their brand new single “Blinded by the Sun,” rockers Relic Kings expose an intimate, raw lyrical nerve without showing the slightest bit of hesitation, and though it’s only one example of the unfiltered poeticism to behold on their debut album of the same name, it likely has the most crossover appeal to listeners of different tastes and backgrounds. Relic Kings have a dynamically experimental sound, but while it borrows…
Acclaimed Austin-based, New England-born singer/songwriter Robert LaRoche is back this season with a brooding new EP in A Thousand Shades. Comprised of six relaxing, mostly carefree summer songs, A Thousand Shades lives up to its title and delivers a kaleidoscopic smorgasbord of color, texture and tonality in tracks like the gorgeous “Seeds of Doubt,” rocking “Jet Blue” and polished pop tune “The Dream is Gone.” LaRoche is at the top of his game…
It isn’t often that a synthesizer dishes out the sort of endearing melodicism that we normally associate almost exclusively with string instruments in western pop music, but that’s exactly what audiences can expect to discover in the charming “Darling Anna,” from 2.O.F.’s The Machine EP. Through their boisterous and evocative harmonization with the lead vocal, we get a mood to match the story that the lyrics are telling us, with the end…
The BILLBOARD Charting R&B artist, Kelvin Frazier is back with hot new summertime single ROLLERCOASTER. We’re definitely ready to take whatever ride Kelvin’s on. Learn more about the Savannah, GA native with a Ph.D In what genre do you classify your music? My music is a mix of R&B and POP. Where are you from and where do you live currently? I am from Savannah, GA and currently live…
Just one year shy of their 20th anniversary as a band, and eight albums into it, The Dollyrots have just turned in their best effort yet. The 14-track Daydream Explosion, their first for Stevie Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records label, is simply pop punk perfection. From the spikey, fast guitars, the gorgeous female/male tradeoff vocals, machine gun drumming, and bratty defiant lyrics, there’s a feeling that The Dollyrots have been building up…