MIZU excavates hidden feelings and lush, unknown gardens of sound in every aspect of her work. The ephemeral beauty of her cello is a guiding hand through the sonic and cerebral.After performing in Minneapolis earlier this month, MIZU took time to talk about classical music, continuity, freedom, performance, and The Music Man.
The debut album from Glaring Orchid holds nothing back on i hope you’re okay. Distorted and unsettling while simultaneously glinting on what sounds like a much needed release of emotion and energy, Glaring Orchid makes a sonically cohesive and face melting splash in the East Coast scene to no surprise.
Marcel Wave understand the need for balance, a task that Maike Hale-Jones excels at. Their sound jitters beneath a deft combination of her sardonic and poetic spoken vocals and sweeping melodies that feel enormous by comparison. Featuring members of Sauna Youth and Cold Pumas, there’s a seasoned dexterity to their debut.
The mirthfully macabre album art on The Dracu-Las recent 7-inch that evokes both arterial and ocean sprays provides a warm invitation for a certain kind of listener to sit back and enjoy the show, and the tunes on Fall Asleep When I'm Dead ensure that once those listeners tune in, they won’t be turning the station.
Frog Poems tracks the incomplete negotiations between childhood and adulthood that linger over time. Sam Goblin seems to be asking are there ways of revisiting the former without becoming entrapped by nostalgia? Neither life stage entirely subsumes the other with recollections of acquaintances, ambition, and crushes complicating any straightforward progression of life or time.
After taking some time off from touring, White met Anderson at the coastal town of Point Lonsdale, Victoria, on the southeast shores of Australia. This laid-back scenery pours into Swallowtail, a new set of improvised compositions where the musical possibilities between them merge with the infinite ebb and flow of the Pacific Ocean coast.
Beak> have played together long enough to develop a synchronicity in their performances, providing each other the space to adapt and the patience to explore. That earned sense of trust feels apparent in the progressions found throughout >>>>, a record in constant motion yet never seemingly in a rush to get anywhere.
Pons keep their reckless spirit alive with "Can’t Stand It,” a berserk cover of the James Brown song as you’ve never heard it before. Out today via Dedstrange Records (APTBS, Goblin Daycare, Wah Together), the band trade in the godfather of soul’s traditional funky sound for something a bit freakier, a bit noisier, a bit more deranged.
Beth Gibbons seems to have that slow-evolving, meticulous songwriting and arranging process, scrutinizing every note, every word placed in the lyrics. For some artists, such a process makes no difference in the final result, but with Gibbons, as evidenced here, the results are no less than mesmerizing.
Winged Wheel have expanded to a six piece ensemble involving Cory Plump, Fred Thomas, Whitney Johnson, Matthew J Rolin. and in addition to the first album’s lineup, Big Hotel enlists Lonnie Slack and Steve Shelley. In an orchestra where each person is a conductor, these experimental imaginations melt into one conversation.
There's beauty found in the thoughtful details and careful choices made throughout Amy O's latest offering, Mirror, Reflect. Arriving almost five years after her 2019 album Shell, here lies a meticulously crafted album that arguably embodies a stronger creative ethos than anything of her previous work.
There’s a thread of tension between domestic life and the life of an artist running through the record, with much of Deep Sage dealing with the specifics of motivation: why continue being in a band when it does so much to stunt the rest of your life around it? Why live life when you can take the band on the road and escape?
On their new single "Shimmer Away," Philly’s Bleary Eyed make brain fog sound inviting. Those familiar with the band's previous work will immediately recognize their trademark distorted blend of synths and a burst of busy drum machine beats, setting the stage for blissful hooks and hazy vocal harmonies to emerge from the muck.
