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Particles of pollen drift out into the open air, cautiously grouped together before wandering off into the distance. That’s the image Kerem Ömer Şahin conjured when sitting down to write Sawdust, and it’s one I can easily see as well as the sparse notes of the melody line echo the particles and the bass notes… Continue reading Music Roundup: Kerem Ömer Şahin, Fantastic Mr Marcel, Ashtrace, NETAA

Joshua Quimby brings us Miles Apart, which stomps in a bit like an amped up Joshua Radin tune in both vocal timbre and melody. The melody is great and the layering of acoustic guitar, banjo, and fiddle, are a familiar but welcome combination. Check it out on our Indie Folk and Singer Songwriter Playlist. Sojourner… Continue reading Music Roundup: Joshua Quimby, Artlet, Cheer Mom, LIMBO, Von Stuck., Copperstone, Leone, Shaunbei

Here’s a grinding, gritty, and sly track from Venu7 featuring some groovy old school guitars, a big slap-back reverb on the lead vocal and some handclaps that all contribute to this classic rock revival sound. The artist writes “This song is about empowering women through sexuality and against slutshaming and objetification [sic]”. Oh and it… Continue reading Music Roundup: Venu7, Ventill8, Talking to Sophie, Gato de Rua, Elly Deda, Archer Phan, Paperclip, Hooperkd

Ooph, something about a singular unexpected synth really does it for me. Alive in the Summertime by Becky Krill features an acoustic guitar opening with some flittering notes, and after a brief hint of the electronic influence as a beat drops in over the verse, we get a LFO’d sawtooth synth undergirding the pre-chorus before… Continue reading Music Roundup: Becky Krill, Christine Nguyen & Justice Gbada, Owlstar, Tom Duggan, Monroe Moon, Our Dear Friend

Songs like Tell Me a Story by Willow Grace are exactly why I started this blog. I love this song, yet there’s only a handful of plays on Soundcloud and Spotify at the moment and I feel like it really deserves a lot more attention. The song opens with some gentle guitar arpeggios and delicate… Continue reading Music Roundup: Willow Grace, Desai, Sovirez, Shinn!, King Tris, Hailey Simone, & Oghamyst

Hospital by Tape Runs Out establishes the melancholic atmosphere early with a few synth notes running out into a big, distant reverb. The song develops into a low, rolling, half-spoken and half-sung grinder. I enjoyed the broken phrasing “you woke up in hospital, you thought that you were back in school”. Whether intentional or not,… Continue reading Music Roundup: Tape Runs Out, sentiments écoutables, Conni Krell, Adolfo Garcia

The Dustbowl Daddies’ Nothing but Time opens reminds me of an epic song at the end of the movie as we get one last emotional look at the main characters as they go their separate ways. It’s a masterful bluegrass inspired alt-rock anthem saturated with emotion and energy. Well performed, well mixed, and well written,… Continue reading Music Review: The Dustbowl Daddies, Phillip Eno, The Shy, McDead

“I am a liar” opens Fawn in her new track Burden. I’ll admit, the first time I heard this song I heard the words as “I am a lion” in a delicate faltering tone, and she had me, however, learning the true lyrics didn’t disappoint. The descending chords over the line, “if I say that… Continue reading Music Review: Fawn, The Shy, Destro, Tejas Sharma, & Bran