MUSIC REVIEWS

URL: https://madelyn-victoria.com/ They say that everything’s bigger in Texas, and in The Lone Star State’s native daughter (and ascending country star) Madelyn Victoria’s new single “Right Here With You,” as much could be said about her enormous melodies, which come to us in rousing full color stereo sound. Victoria has …

Stephen Winston’s Unresolved features nine songs that, unfortunately for Winston, required a great deal of personal trial to produce. The story behind Unresolved is well worth looking into if you love the album as much as I do, but the songs are what we are here for. The fifth album …

The piano balladry of “Love Is,” the first track in Rebecca Blasband’s all new album Here, delicately drifts through the atmosphere of an airy production as it were as light as a feather. Blasband’s voice is the heaviest component of the entire song, and it actually weighs down the effervescent grooves …

With a bluesy twang, “The Girl With the Rattlesnake Heart” slithers into existence, supply appointed with a folkie vibrato but teeming with rock n’ roll grit just beneath the surface. The latest single from Steve Bonham and the Long Road isn’t your typical pop fodder – in fact, quite the …

A pulsating bassline ushers us into Xuan’s new album Have Some Fun shortly after we enter “Not the Man,” a groove-laden, bittersweet pop tune with a suffocating polish that makes its melody effervescent. Xuan wanders through the lyrics with supreme attentiveness; the words chase after the harmonies in the bassline while the …

A hollow groove is filled with colorful harmonious guitar play as we sink into the plush melodies of Crossing Willow Creek’s opening track “Can’t Go Back.” Bill Abernathy’s latest record doesn’t waste any time laying out a gentle jam before our ears and captivating us with its complex beat, which struts …

URL: http://www.skyfactormusic.com/ Music doesn’t have to be overdriven with indulgent distortion to rock hard, and rarely has that statement been more applicable to an album than it is in Skyfactor’s A Thousand Sounds. Acoustic guitars take on hard rock rhythms in the eleven song masterpiece, which boasts a sharply refined mix …

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GPSP5N2XRk The muscular riff that introduces us to the eponymous first track of Friends and the Fakers doesn’t waste a second before nudging all who press play on indie rockers LowRay’s debut album into the searing heat of the pair’s decadent sound. Mechanically stretching our palates out right alongside its …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/elbuenlaban Labán’s “Dueños de Aquí” is just the first single from his forthcoming album Todos Somos Dueños de Aquí, but it could be the Mexican R&B artist’s best choice to establish a name for himself in the explosive North American urban pop scene. “Dueños de Aquí” fuses together a diverse …

URL: https://sarahparkermusic.com/ Sarah Parker’s album Strawberry Moon rates as a family affair of the best sort. Produced by husband and respected singer/songwriter/musician Robert Parker, Sarah Parker proves her mettle as a singer and songwriter alike with this release but goes a step further with her wholehearted embrace of traditional country sounds. The …