MUSIC REVIEWS

Jacques Gaines – Something Wrong with Me Tacoma, Washington’s Jacques Gaines made his first mark in the music world further north in Canada but his latest single “Something Wrong with Me”, taken from the album release Volume Won, should propel him to previously unknown heights. This track is even more impressive …

The best summer records have a very distinct sound and feel. They tend to embody the reckless abandon and incomparably youthful catharsis that comes with the season better than any others can, and what Robert LaRoche issues in the stunning A Thousand Shades definitely qualifies as one of these special songbooks. LaRoche …

Still G & Slapy’s “Endless,” which recently scaled the Euro Indie Music Chart to the #10 slot whilst receiving airplay on hundreds of stations in over five dozen countries around the world, opens with a menacing synthesized salvo that will grow stronger with every verse that the Italian lyrical wizards …

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/5EA6FSQuQ489bOrdCvJRSN Drums that replicate a heart beating at the speed of love are igniting a blaze that won’t burn out in “Chemical Smiles,” the new single from Ronin, but they’re not the only agent of evocation lining the sonic walls of this stately exhibition in eccentric musicality. “Chemical Smiles” …

“Darling Anna,” the debut single from 2.O.F., rises out of the silence with a boldly stylish blanket of synthetic major key notes, each cascading from above like tiny droplets of sonic rain. Their collective melody is startlingly tangible and quickly wraps around us like a warm blanket in the dead …

Percussive palm-muting marks the disturbingly barren opening bars of “Carpet,” the new single from Wilhelm’s debut full-length album Lace, with a menacing texture that will only grow stronger as we delve deeper into the annals of this surreal acoustic ballad. Wilhelm’s lyrics are difficult to hear at first, as they’re sung …

URL: http://www.relickings.ca/ The lyric video for Relic Kings’ “Blinded by the Sun” opens with a visually entrancing flight above the rockiest of terrain, the soft sounds of the string melodies contrasting with the images filling our screen with muted earth tones beautifully. Amidst the lyrics, we watch as thunder and …

URL: http://www.shanesmithmusic.com/ Menacing heavy rock riffs are met with forbidding harmonies of an acoustic nature in Hail Mary, the latest release from the one and only Shane Smith & the Saints. Singer Shane Smith tackles drama, dreams and demons of a personal variety in songs like “The End,” “Oklahoma City,” …

A girl is casually tying her shoes when she meets a friendly face on the stairway to the subway. Soon after, the pair are inseparable, basking in the glow of each other’s love, sharing the simple moments – like getting a new pair of sneakers – that a freshly-minted couple …

Rolling out of the darkness with a gust of distorted guitar venom, The Cutthroat Brothers’ “Psykik Chemist” opens in a haze of overdriven strings that are quickly met with a rollicking percussive beat which launches the bludgeoning bassline into the spacey atmosphere from where it was first plucked. There’s some …