MUSIC REVIEWS

Suffocating and inescapable. Surprisingly melodic and yet entirely focused on the intensity of its lyrical dispatches. There’s nothing but streamlined efficiency behind the venomous lash of DawgGoneDavis’ new single “Clean Slate,” and for those who have been fans of her previous work, a renewed sense of integrity on the part …

Simmering beneath the surface in a fuzzy hue, we discover the outlandish melodic tones that will serve as the centerpiece for “Tumbleweed Tornado,” one of the ten tracks to be heard on Bloom’s Taxonomy’s Foley Age this late winter season. Though the structure of the song quickly lends itself over to synthesized …

Your mama is your mama, but your daddy ain’t me, croons rising country star Hazel McQuade with experienced fervor. His voice wavers with an appropriate intensity but never reaches a crescendo that insults the other musical elements of the track. Like many artists stepping into the limelight during the post …

Jenson David is amongst a rising number of entertainers in the independent music sector officially having a moment. Ironically thanks to the pandemic, everything has turned digital – a playing field that has yet to equal the unevenness of the typical entertainment circulatory hierarchies. Aside from those achieving fame and …

The title of Ivan Comar and Gabriele Saro’s new release “Beautiful Stranger” reminds me of a Leonard Cohen song. Comar and Saro’s collaboration, however far removed from the often bleak wintery landscapes of the aforementioned Cohen, does share with the Canadian’s music undoubted intelligence that invokes a wealth of emotion. …

In his new single, a cover of Janis Ian’s “From Me to You,” Mark Newman dives surprisingly deep into previously unexplored layers of his own artistry through the lens of a classic songstress. The results of this experiment? Some of the more relevant and pointedly self-aware melodic statements I’ve heard …

If you keep up with the American underground, you’re probably already aware that synthpop’s big comeback has been well under way for the last few years, and the success of duos like Snuttock is perhaps exemplary of this fact. In their latest single “Stay (Robot Mix),” Snuttock continue to expand …

Lost in a flurry of colors in “Creaky Crooked Woman” or wandering through bucolic fields in “Delaware Cornfields,” War Panties don’t look like musicians uncomfortable with being themselves in every situation. There’s an honesty to their loose style of symbolism in the lyrics of these two singles and the music …

No matter the language you speak, the poetic value of the new single “SETIA” by Shadow Puppet Theatre is indisputable from most every angle – and the manner of its delivery is the biggest reason why. “SETIA” sees Shadow Puppet Theatre touching on the concept of less is more without …

It’s a refreshing occurrence, when the music industry shows the ability to still surprise you. Occasionally, an artist arrives who is so stupendously idiosyncratic and animated, that it restores your faith in originality. Now, it’s too premature to say that young Italian rapper, Dici is leading the charge to a …