Occurrence Tells Chorus.fm About “Feeding Time”
In a recent interview with Current.fm, Occurrence discussed the making of their new LP Real Friend and the contribution of guitarist Damian Baldet to the track “Feeding Time.” According the band’s Ken Urban, “Damien sent me a ton of stems, lots of different takes. As I started comping them together, I ended up re-arranging the song. Then I sent it back to […]
Dancing About Architecture Enjoys Sun Atoms’ Diverse Style
Dancing About Architecture applauds the album Everything Forever, at radio now from Sun Atoms on Little Cloud Records. It is easy to throw around genre tags such as psychedelic, shoegaze, alt-pop, and indie, but none quite tell the whole story…yet all of them sort of fit, too. But such is their ever-shifting sound and fluid music-making world that even […]
New Release From Springhouse
Independent Project Records (IPR) and the New York City three-piece Springhouse have announced that they will reissue the band’s 2008 12-track album, From Now to OK, on March 14. Springhouse may be best remembered as the first major-signed, nationally-touring US shoegaze band of the original era; a 1991 MTV video, “Layers,” a Rolling Stone feature and copious airplay brought […]
Dubinski Is Hailed By Mystic Sons As “Brilliantly Inventive”
Mystic Sons is out with a review of What Is Your Definition Of Happiness, by Dubinski, and contends that the “Edinburgh-based outfit continues to shine on [their] progressive sophomore LP… a record that broadens their adventurous horizons further than ever. While very much akin to the post-punk genre, What Is Your Definition Of Happiness? looks to spread its creative wings […]
Queen City Sounds And Art Applauds The Intimacy Of Captain’s Audio Project
“Captain’s Audio Project was built on a foundation of James Cook’s vocals and a 1931 National Tenor Resonator Guitar with other instruments and guest musicians overdubbed to fill out the sound when it felt appropriate,” Queen City Sounds and Art writes. “But the core appeal of the new record is how it feels like a fusion of indie pop and […]
Einen Habich Noch Says Occurrence Ignites A True Sound Firework
In its review of Occurrence‘s Real Friend, Einen Habich Noch notes the trio’s roots in the queer scene and calls the new set “as intimate as it is exuberant… Real Friend is one of those excellently produced electro records that refer to the heritage of house and related genres of the 80s and early 90s and thus ignite a true sound […]
Real Gone Praises Sun Atoms’ Great Melodies
Real Gone says Everything Forever, the new album at radio now from Portland’s Sun Atoms, improves on [their debut] at almost every turn. Its nine tracks still immerse the listener in a world of sounds that draw influence from various aspects of 90s alternative rock, but with a pinch of goth, darkwave synth-based sounds, and some slightly looser stylistic […]
Goldmine Reviews Eramus Hall’s Lost And Found
Goldmine has a review of Eramus Hall‘s Lost And Found, released last year by Westbound Records and ORG Music. According to the site, the archival release’s “song selection is a soul and (slightly) disco, funk laden hot bed of music that was more than likely recorded during the process of cutting their debut album for Westbound. The track-listing contains a beautiful arrangement […]
Captain’s Audio Project Is “A Fine Listen,” Writes Americana UK
Americana UK has a short review of the debut LP from Captain’s Audio Project. The site explains, “Portland, OR’s James Cook has a track record with another band, Trashcan Joe who specialise in performing on instruments made out of found objects including a trash can banjo, leaning heavily on original music influenced by vintage jazz records. Here he plays a 1931 National […]
Occurrence Chats With Post-Punk.com
Post-punk.com recently shared “Feeding Time,” one of the singles from NY-based indie electronic trio Occurrence‘s new album Real Friend. “Teeming with hearts unready to empathize, souls too timid to speak,” the site writes, “‘Feeding Time’‘s lines reveal a realm of raw disquiet. People hurry through with closed fists and closed minds, possessed by longing and louder appetites. There’s […]
Sun Atoms Announce Tour
The expansive, dark psych influenced Portland band Sun Atoms is at radio now with Everything Forever, on Little Cloud Records. The band is also about to embark on a short tour behind the album, which Big Takeover describes as “mercurial and inventive.” In addition to these performances, the band will do an in studio at KRBX in Boise on March 29 during […]
Funk My Soul Says The Counts Are Visionary
Funk My Soul has a review of The Counts’ album What’s Up Front That-Counts, which has been reissued by Detroit’s legendary Westbound Records with an assist from ORG Music. According to the site, it’s “an ever fantastic LP and easily their best. This is a consistently superb, authentic Westbound funk-rock scorcher that drives and grooves with enough dirt thrown in to stick […]
New Music From Dubinski
Born in rural North Yorkshire and raised in the Scottish Highlands, Dubinski is a quartet of four inseparable siblings: Eugene, Fergus, Donal, and Eoin Gaine. The Gaine brothers spent their childhood in atmospheric and social isolation. A shared love of music was the common thread amongst the four, so they spent their adolescent years writing and […]
Americana Highways Gets The Details About Captain’s Audio Project
In a recent interview with Americana Highways, veteran Portland Oregon scene member James Cook discusses the instrumentation that adorns Waiting For The Moon, his debut solo album under the moniker of Captain’s Audio Project. “I basically just sat down with a mic for vocals, and one on my guitar, and I played what I considered some of my better songs. Once that […]
Earmilk Highlights The Honesty Of Occurrence
Earmilk has a feature on Real Friend, the new album from New York electronic trio Occurrence. The site writes, “Brimming with a sense of honesty through each track, the album moves from the rock-tinged opener ‘Feeding Time’ and the anthemic focus track ‘Imperfect Robots,’ to the vulnerability of ‘Lost Dad,’ uplifting touch of “Opportunity Window,” and the raw songwriting […]
AllMusic Reviews Dennis Coffey’s Finger Pickin’ Good
AllMusic has a review of Dennis Coffey‘s Finger Lickin’ Good, which has been reissued as Finger Pickin’ Good by Westbound Records and ORG Music. According to the guide, “Dennis Coffey’s Westbound debut heralds the tectonic shift away from the synapse-scorching psychedelic funk of his previous records toward a slicker, more commercial approach that anticipates the full-blown disco sensibility of his subsequent outings.” Yet, […]
Razorcake Reviews Greg Lisher’s New LP
Razorcake recently reviewed Underwater Detection Method, which represents an artistic reinvention for the Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom guitarist Greg Lisher, out now via Independent Project Records. The new album is electronically-oriented, and Razorcake observes that “the entire thing is very sophisticated and I’d say they’re going for a very specific sound and nailing it. The tones are very deliberate and there’s a […]
New Music From Captain’s Audio Project
Waiting For The Moon by Captain’s Audio Project is the solo debut of veteran Portland, Oregon songwriter and multi-instrumentalist James Cook (Jimbo Trout and the Fish People, Trashcan Joe), full of finely-crafted tunes steeped in traditional folk, blues. and jazz. Produced by Mike Danner at Mike’s Garage in Portland, the guiding principle for these sessions was to keep everything raw. Cook recorded […]
Dusty Groove Gets Trapped In Denise LaSalle’s Thing
Of Denise LaSalle‘s Trapped By A Thing Called Love, Dusty Groove writes, “The set is a real burner throughout – one that features mostly original material by Denise, recorded with a spare and compressed southern soul groove that’s a lot more Stax Records than anything going down on Westbound at the time. Denise is in perfect form vocally, too […]
Americana Highways Loves the innocence mission
“The arrangements,” writes Americana Highways about the new innocence mission album, “are made up of crystalline sound in a banquet of notes that surround the showcase’s ‘cake’ with frosting. You don’t ‘see’ the song until you cut into it with your attention. The tunes are sublime, subtle & not in your face with any amount of intensity outside […]
