The Peak Tells Readers To Prepare For Leif Vollebekk
Leif Vollebekk‘s new album Revelation comes out September 27 on Secret City Records, and The Peak says listeners ought to “prepare to be immersed in vast orchestration and effortless vocals.” The site caught up with Vollebekk for an interview last month at the Vancouver Folk Fest and got details about his influences and processes. Read it here. Two singles from the forthcoming album, […]
Stereo Embers Glowingly Reviews In These Trees & Tartie
Stereo Embers is out with a stunning review of The Quiver, the new album from In These Trees & Tartie. “Running the spectrum from intimate to universal in a way so thoroughly integrated with soul and sorrow, with lasting love and lasting hurt,” the review says about album opener “Orchard,” “the chance of you not reacting from the […]
Pitchfork Shares Laurie Anderson’s Album Announcement
Pitchfork recently covered Laurie Anderson‘s announcement of Amelia, her new album available later this month. The site had a quote from Anderson, who explains “the words used in Amelia are inspired by Amelia Earhart’s pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and my idea of what a woman flying around the world might think about,” Read more, […]
Dan West Celebrates His Album Release
Dan West, whose album d’Animal Hedonistic Pillow is out now, will celebrate its release this Friday, August 23, at Scribble in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The album will be on sale on cassette there. Check it out if you’re in the area! We recently posted a social media video about the album. Find it here on our Instagram, […]
Gregory Ackerman, Says Indie Boulevard, Is “Magic”
Indie Boulevard writes that “Luckier Still,” from Gregory Ackerman‘s new EP, is “nothing short of spectacular. It’s one of those tunes that hooks you from the first note. I’m totally enamored with the arrangement and production—the craftsmanship is just top-notch. From the crisp guitars to the deep, groovy bass, and the overall lush sound they produce, everything […]
Acid Ted Digs Dren McDonald
Acid Ted digs Dren McDonald and recently shared “Orcinus Bulla,” one of the tracks on McDonald’s new ambient LP Oceanic. “The track is a lovely beatless piece,” says Acid Ted. “It has deep liquid tones. It flirts with being both drone and neo classical but avoids settling in either. It’s a delightfully complex and layer set of modular synth […]
Binnie Klein Visits First Voices Radio And Shares “Ablaze” By In These Trees & Tartie
The Quiver, the new collaborative album from In These Trees & Tartie, was inspired in part by what First Voices Radio describes as a shared “passion for nature and survival of the planet.” One environmentally-focused highlight on the record is “Ablaze,” inspired by the ever-increasing global problem of wildfires. According to First Voices Radio, the track is “a […]
Torn Boys Go Deep With It’s Psychedelic Baby
Torn Boys members Jeffrey Clark and Kelly Foley recently chatted with It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine, providing an oral history of the long-ago musical project that recently found release via Independent Project Records. According to Foley, “during the era we were playing in the early eighties, the notion of there somehow being a Torn Boys ‘album’ wasn’t even a pipe dream. No […]
David J Hits Up Spotlight On
David J – the founding member of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets whose 3-disc set of cassette demos Tracks From The Attic is at radio now from Independent Project Records – recently guested on the Spotlight On podcast. The site says, “David came by to talk about his career-spanning triple album made up of home demos recorded between 1984 and 2004, hand-selected for […]
New Music From Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned—and daring—creative pioneers. Her work, which encompasses music, visual art, poetry, film, and photography, has challenged and delighted audiences around the world for more than forty years. In a recent 60 Minutes profile, Anderson Cooper said she “is a pioneer of the avant-garde, but … that doesn’t begin to describe what […]
WAWSTSF Shouts For Dren McDonald
According to We All Want Someone To Shout For, “Orcinus Bulla” by Dren McDonald is “a haunted and cinematic composition that feels as though its pulled out of a dramatic indie film’s score. Although it’s an ambient instrumental, there is a ton of storytelling and emotional depth that is portrayed throughout.” The site has the track right here; it […]
New Haven Independent Profiles In These Trees & Tartie
The New Haven Independent has the detailed story behind The Quiver, the new collaborative album from In These Trees & Tartie. The album, the paper writes, is “the result of a meeting of minds and talents is clear in the multitude of ideas coursing through it. But the artistic chemistry between the two women is obvious, too. Without […]
Ground Control Hails The “Quite Special” New Melvins LP
“The thing with the Melvins,” writes Ground Control Magazine, “is that they’re constantly putting out good or above average albums. However, I gotta say, there’s something quite special about Tarantula Heart. It’s sludgy, funny, heavy, ambitious, catchy as hell yet still retains the identity of a Melvins record. One wonders if they’ve been holding back all these years or simply […]
Frontview Reviews The “Anthemic” Track “Orchard,” By In These Trees & Tartie
Frontview Magazine says “Orchard,” the opening track on the new collaborative LP from In These Trees & Tartie, “is an anthemic outcry about letting go… [that] takes on an additional meaning as we face the devastation of climate change: The man who ravages the orchard thoughtlessly can stand in for our collective carelessness about our planet. But [lyricist […]
Electronica.org Shares The Intense and Complex New Dren McDonald Track
As Electronica.org writes, Dren McDonald‘s track “Orcinus Bulla” “is crafted through layered modular synth sequences, recorded repeatedly with different knob tweaks, and augmented with electric guitar processed via granular synthesis. The track opens with ambient pads and delaying tones reminiscent of distant guitar elements. As it progresses, the composition builds in intensity and complexity, with high notes leading […]
Dan West Drops “Falipa” Clip
Dan West‘s “Falipa,” the opening track to his new album d’Animal Hedonistic Pillow, is a shining pop song that leaps out of the speakers like AM gold. While the music is cheery, the lyrics touch upon loss as the song is a reflection on West’s love for his now-gone 19-year-old cat. Now there’s a video for […]
Freak Scene Explores The Alchemical Sound Of In These Trees & Tartie
Freak Scene recently covered The Quiver, the new collaborative album from In These Trees & Tartie. The site gives the backstory of the record, which came about after Australian musician Tartie reached out to WPKN DJ Binnie Klein (aka In These Trees) for airplay. Freak Scene says that “piano and cello carry ‘Orchard,’ the first song the pair worked on, and Tartie sings […]
It’s All Indie Recommends The “Jazzy Tones” Of Gregory Ackerman
According to It’s All Indie, the title track of Gregory Ackerman‘s new EP Brand New Life is “chock-full of jazzy tones that’ll warm you up in an instant…. Ackerman’s vocals are the perfect balance of direct and soft, with any new listener being made into a fan within the first minute of listening to his soulful voice. “Brand New […]
New Music From Dren McDonald
Dren McDonald spent the 1990s running Vaccination Records and played in multiple SF Bay Area bands before embarking on a career writing music for film, theme parks and many video games including CounterStrike Global Offensive (Valve), Ghost Recon Commander (Ubisoft), Cooking Dash (GLU Mobile/EA), Gunman Taco Truck (Romero Games) and the award winning indie game Gathering Sky (Pontoco). In addition to his game soundtracks, he’s also released the […]
Kevin Alexander Talks To Binnie Klein, aka In These Trees
In a recent interview with Kevin Alexander of On Repeat Records, Binnie Klein (In These Trees) explains how she felt at the beginning of her collaboration with Australian singer/songwriter Tartie. Kelin says, “Tartie’s artistry matching my lyrics with her melody thrilled me. I was operating on, as they say, a hope and prayer, and sent the demo to producer David Baron, who […]
