MUSIC REVIEWS

Color My World from folk/country singer and songwriter Annette Adler is full of lush harmonies and riveting lyrics. Playing on her penchant for, well, colorful words, Adler’s angelic voice elevates the hues and honey-dipped melodies in this sing-along, reflective album. If you’re a fan of traditional country, these songs check several boxes. If you’re also …

Talitha Jae, an Australian singer/songwriter, has just released a delightful debut EP, “Spilt T.” With her lovely inviting voice and soft bluesy indie folk sound, Talitha Jae has created a highly listenable little bundle of songs that lead the listener through the good and bad parts of love and romance. …

In an ominous lurch, “Awake from Thy Tomb” opens up Matthew J Van Howe’s colorful new album Legend of the Galactic Princess in true SNES-fashion, alluding to much of the old school futurisms that will populate the majority of this tracklist. The groove evolves into a cult-like tide of noise and melodicism, …

Tempo can say it all in the right setting, and from where I sit it’s the most important feature we can break down in the new single “Any Moment” by Le Sonic and Robert Lee. Lee is the feature on this track, but make no mistake about it – his …

Wasting not one second getting into the lusty beats that will soon shape the narrative for not one but twenty-five of the best songs in their discography, Monsieur Job start up Música Para Mi Madre ready to crush the competition in “Capri.” The rhythm is big and smothering in certain spots, but …

James Raftery is loath to let a good song go to waste. He refined and recorded the nine song collection Tornado during the pandemic-prompted lockdown, but the songs first came to life during the writing for 2017’s Everything. These piano-inspired ballads strip away any self-indulgent gloss in favor of functional stylistic flourishes and a thorough …

Badgertrap’s latest album release Hope Springs Eternal is the latest collection from Hal Camplin. The Bristol, UK native plays unique yet oddly familiar punk-inspired material but there’s a surprising idiosyncratic edge distinguishing his songs as well. It’s the project’s sixth album since Camplin first debuted in 2009. The rapid and continuing evolution …

Chesca made some pretty big waves with her single “Crocodile Tears” earlier this year, and in her new album Feel the Breeze, she brings the aesthetical concept behind the aforementioned track to a feature-length unlike any other I’ve heard in 2021. Rather than skewing simple pop with an unreal knack for …

For the first couple of bars in Gigi Vega’s “Down Crazy,” west coast trap and retro g-funk conceptualism seems to hang in the air like a stubborn fog over the cosmopolitan city lights of early morning, but the fierce beat from the percussion is soon to break through the clouds. …

Rousting us awake from a musical mundanity-induced slumber, the Annie Minogue Band’s “Sandbox” slowly but surely starts to fill the air around us with a countrified blues-rock sound that has no equal on the mainstream level this summer. Certainly, it’s been said by quite a few critics before me that …