MUSIC REVIEWS

SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/para-lia/para-lia-soap-bubble-dreams From Cottbus, Germany comes Para Lia with – Soap Bubble Dreams, an album with just as much new school to be heard as old school on what is a 50/50 blend, with somehow an overall respect paid to both audiences by musicians René and Cindy Methner. Their blend …

Some young songwriters have no trouble being followers instead of leaders in their scene, but Derrick Davis definitely isn’t among their ranks. Davis is treading some sophisticated waters in his new album Anti-Social, clobbering anyone who presses play on the stunning “End of Days,” “All I Need to Know,” “Best I …

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mattshapiromusic/ Fade In, the all-new EP from the critically acclaimed Matt Shapiro, is a record that knows no stylistic boundaries or limitations, but if you think that this would make it anything other than a focused and shockingly tight 6-track treasure chest of harmonies, then you don’t know its …

THE VICS LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ214NAbCx4 From the very moment that it first appears to us, the vivid vocal track that penetrates the master mix in “Proud,” one of The Vics’ new singles due out this month, is entrancing us with its otherworldly sway. Like a pendulum inducing hypnosis, it ebbs and …

URL: http://www.jonathanband.com/ Drumsticks click with a vibrant exuberance. Soon, they’re joined by a colorful guitar lick that dances around the beats with a childlike joy. Tender vocals enter the frame, and before we know it, we’re lost in an ocean of textures that will carry us through the poignant passages …

The music video for “Some Girls” by Penelope Robin opens in darkness, fading into a scene where Robin is playfully dancing in a park in a picturesque city. A melodic piano strikes away at glassy keys, and she starts to sing in her trademark velvet-soft voice. “Some girls want everything” …

Bursting at the seams with a colorful resonance just dying to penetrate the speakers and impart unto listeners its natural warmth, a delicate set of guitar strings piece together a melody that wraps around us and doesn’t let go for anything. It’s joined by a blustery bassline, aching vocals and …

FACEBOOK: https://m.facebook.com/Scatter-Swept-302057330669284/ In Modern Remains, an all-new collaborative album from post-punk practitioners Brookhaven & Scatter Swept, atonal white noise finds itself fused with studded harmonies and gripping grooves that seem intent on stirring a reaction out of us. Songs like “Centerform” and “Already Moving Away” break through the speakers with an …

URL: http://gotimeband.com/ Drums explode out of the silence and come to life before our very ears in “Hard to Pull the Trigger,” the first of nineteen tracks in Go Time!’s incredible album Midway, out this winter everywhere indie music is sold. The white noise of the amplifiers is manipulated and forged …

URL: https://www.stephanierosemusic.com/ I loved Stephanie Rose’s Sprout from first listen. Rose has a lot of nuance, but she’s thankfully the sort of songwriter and singer who shows her cards from the start and doesn’t traffic in much, if any, artifice. The EP has an assuming sound on some songs, leaning heavily on …