New Music From Sunny War
Coming on the heels of her critically-acclaimed 2018 album With the Sun, Sunny War’s upcoming LP Shell Of A Girl finds the songstress and virtuosic guitarist looking back on the rocky roads of her past with a surprising amount of nostalgia. The LP was written in a burst of creativity during a transition period, as […]
Stereogum Debuts Golden Daze’s “Blue Bell” Video
Stereogum recently premiered the video for “Blue Bell,” the first song and lead single from Golden Daze‘s Simpatico album. As the site puts it, the song “is coated in dreamy folk balladry, mutating the lo-fi gauze of their first record into a warmer, more mysterious brooding. It’s both aching and hopeful, and the lyrics feel […]
Remezcla Speaks To Combo Chimbita’s Prince Of Queens
“In a zeitgeist consumed by nostalgia,” begins a recent feature on Combo Chimbita‘s new LP Ahomale in Remezcla, “artists embracing futurism and the daunting task of charting new sonic waters feel like an increasingly necessary breath of fresh air. On Combo Chimbita’s new album Ahomale, a tidal wave of sound and spirituality embraces tropical futurism, more […]
Ultimate Classic Rock Enjoys The Bird And The Bee’s Take On Van Halen
Ultimate Classic Rock has a stream of The Bird And The Bee‘s take on Van Halen’s “Panama.” The site writes that the band didn’t take “a faithful approach” to the track, which they reappropriated in a “synth-driven” manner. According to the band’s Inara George, “You really know when a song was embedded in your brain at […]
Ones To Watch Premieres Golden Daze Video
Golden Daze was recently featured in Ones To Watch, which premiered the LA-based duo’s video for “Took A Fall.” According to the site, “The compelling fourth track of [new LP] Simpatico, ‘Took A Fall’ represents the valuable bondage between Loeb and Schwab as they continue to learn and grow as individuals.” Writes Ones To Watch, […]
Rolling Stone Says You Need To Know Fruit Bats’ New Single
Rolling Stone has pegged the title track of the upcoming Fruit Bats LP as a “Song You Need To Know” going into Summer ’19. According to the Stone, “The latest Fruit Bats’ song (the title track off their upcoming seventh LP) sees [Eric D.] Johnson hit a peak of radiant retro poppiness. ‘Gold Past Life’ […]
New Music From Combo Chimbita
Through folkloric mystique, otherworldly psychedelia and a dash of enigmatic punk, Combo Chimbita catapults the sacred knowledge of our forebears into the future. The band’s second studio album and Anti- Records debut – available on May 3 – sees the visionary quartet drawing from ancestral mythologies and musical enlightenment to unearth the awareness of Ahomale, […]
New Music From Golden Daze
Over musical backdrops ranging from dreamy folk to Seventies-inspired balladry, Golden Daze presents finely-crafted pop songs with bold admissions of love, shame, doubt, and gratitude. The duo was formed in 2013 by Jacob Loeb and Ben Schwab following a collision of friendship and shared musical sensibilities that spanned Portland, Los Angeles, and their overlapping Midwestern […]
New Music From The Bird and The Bee
Since forming in 2005, The Bird and The Bee have brought a breezy elegance to their music, putting their own idiosyncratic twist on time-bending indie-pop. When we last checked in with the duo, they had just presented the dreamlike and dance-heavy album Recreational Love. Since that triumph, vocalist Inara George has released a solo album […]
New Music From Fruit Bats
Fruit Bats’ Gold Past Life marks both an end and a beginning for Eric D. Johnson. It’s the end of an unintentional thematic trilogy of records that began with 2014’s EDJ (a solo record by name, but a Fruit Bats release in spirit) and hit an emotional peak with 2016’s Absolute Loser. Written in the […]
NYLON Has A Stream of Lost In Stars’ “Wand”
NYLON has a stream of “Wand,” the lead track of Lost In Stars new LP. “Grab the closest pair of nice headphones,” writes the site in a “15 Best New Music Releases” from a week last year, “and strap in for one hell of a stunner. Lost in Stars’ latest is a blissed-out electronic delight […]
The Deli Praises The “Musical Chops” Of Combo Chimbita
The Deli Magazine in New York says Combo Chimbita “creates a vehicle through which they explore the complexities of the Afro-Latin diaspora, and with which they imagine a stunning and prophetic destiny. Not only is their musical intent ambitious, Combo Chimbita has the musical chops to carry it through – the songs on Ahomale are […]
Mxdwn Celebrates Beth Gibbons’ Take On Henryk Górecki
Mxdwn reviewed the recent release of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs) performed by Beth Gibbons and The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki. The site contends that “Gibbons’ unusual take on opera breaks away from any classical convention of the genre, instead stripping everything back to really appreciate the beauty […]
Paste Has The New Fruit Bats Song, Along With Tour Dates
Paste Magazine featured Fruit Bats‘ “Gold Past Life,” the advance single from the upcoming album of the same name, yesterday. Eric D. Johnson says that the new track addresses “love and fate and the meaningless random brutal nature of the universe. Y’know, small stuff and big stuff!” Paste says, “Despite the vintage-sounding peppiness of ‘Gold Past Life,’ […]
The Electricity Club Loves Lost In Stars
The Electricity Club, a thoughtful British website devoted to electronic music, has a rundown of Lost In Stars‘ new LP. According to the article, the record takes “inspiration from a twelfth century mystic abbess, Hildegard, who affected by chronic illness, took musical reigns against all odds, creating a mystical soundscape to aid the pain.” The […]
Combo Chimbita Starts Tour, Releases Full Length LP This Week
“Fans of Chicano Batman, Hurray for the Riff Raff, or MAKU Soundsystem should take a listen” to Combo Chimbita, writes The Hartford Courant. The stunning Latinx psych quartet is set to open its summer tour in New Haven on Thursday with a show at The State House. The Courant writes that the band blends “a […]
LA Record Shares Lost In Stars’ “Don’t Ya!”
“Don’t Ya!,” which is but one of the standout tracks on Lost In Stars‘ new long player, is “brooding and propulsive… a slow-burner that suggests Primal Scream with a goth-y/industrial finish.” LA Record described it thusly in a recent online premiere of the song. According to Dylan Willoughby, the brains behind the project, the track is […]
Buzzbands Highlights Alex Lilly’s “Infantile”
In a recent feature in Buzzbands, Alex Lilly explains how she came to collaborate with producer Daedalus on the song “Infantile.” She tells the site, “I asked him if he had any instrumental demos lying around I could write a melody and words to, and he had this beautiful piece that sounds like an intricate […]
All Songs Considered Shares Beth Gibbons’ Sorrowful Songs
On a recent edition of All Songs Considered, selector Tom Huizenga chose to play “a three-hanky classical work from Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3, ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs,’ sung by Beth Gibbons, known best for her work with Portishead.” Gibbons’ newly-released recording, which is at radio now and features a stunning performance by the Polish […]
New Music From Lost In Stars
Lost in Stars is the LA-based electronic project of poet-composer Dylan Willoughby, whose music mines the depths of experimental electronic music, house, UK dubstep, grime, and synth-pop. A classically-trained pianist, Willoughby was born in London and spent most of his summers there as a child; this environment heavily influenced his love of electronic music. After […]
