UPROXX Talks To Fruit Bats
In an interview with UPROXX, Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson describes the band’s sound as “emotional make out music” and says he’ll be content to be remembers as “third best to Beatles and Mozart” in the overall rankings of musicians of all-time. Obviously UPROXXX caught him in a playful mood! Read the full interview right here. Fruit Bats’ A River Running To Your […]
Les Oreilles Curieuses Highlights The “Bewitching Melodies” Of Gregory Ackerman
On his new EP Mhm Okay, writes Les Oreilles Curieuses, Gregory Ackerrman “captivates us in the most beautiful way… the Californian manages to combine the sweetness of Americana and indie folk poetry with sumptuous compositions.” According to the site, Ackerman excels at “crystalline and bewitching melodies.” Read more here. Mhm Okay is at radio now from Polymoon Music.
GRAMMY.com Speaks to Fruit Bats
GRAMMY.com recently spoke to Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats – “a band for right now” – about new album A River Running To Your Heart. Fruit Bats has had a great few years since signing to Merge Records, and Johnson has also had success as part of the Bonny Light Horsemen project. “It’s been kind of a weird few years of […]
Dren McDonald Shares “J2” Video
Dren McDonald has released a video for “J2,” from his new album Pterous. The album features McDonald, who is known for composing music for video games as well as for his electronic collaboration project polyheDren, made Pterous by layering copious guitar parts on top of each other for an orchestral effect. The video portrays this artistically, with multiple McDonalds upon […]
TJPL Praises “Fudge,” From Occurrence’s New LP
TJPL News writes that “Fudge,” from Occurrence‘s new album Slow Violence, is “an industrial and dark experimental synth track that boasts all of the features of fudge the confection and more. The heady vocals are bright and tonal, they sit in the sky and sing down from the cloud peaks. The instrumental is where the complexities lie. It […]
New Music From Gregory Ackerman
LA native musician Gregory Ackerman has been recording himself in bedrooms and garages his whole life. In 2018, he teamed up with Pierre de Reeder (Rilo Kiley) to record And Friends, his first studio album. Following a cold-email, Ackerman was signed to Munich/V2 Records in the Netherlands and subsequently toured there twice in 2018. Ackerman’s most recent release, the Mhm Okay EP, is […]
Called “Truly Exceptional” by NARC Mag, Fruit Bats’ New LP Hits #6 At NACC As The Band Resumes Its North American Tour
NARC Magazine says Fruit Bats’ A River Running To Your Heart is “packed with layers of instrumentation and soulful harmonies, detail and nuance which never feels overpowering. A truly exceptional record.” Read the full review of the album here. It hit a new NACC chart peak this week at #6. Thanks to all the stations who have helped the album achieve […]
The Times-Standard Covers Dren McDonald
The Times-Standard has the details about Dren McDonald’s new LP Pterous. As the site explains, “The recording required a process that McDonald refers to as “completely inefficient” as he used over 35 different instruments to create the sound on this record, and recorded them from at least three different distances for every recorded take. At least five different […]
Ronan Delisle Is In A Mood
Ronan Delisle has released a video for “Guess I’m In A Mood,” the final track on his new album Heavyweights In The Ring, which is at radio now. The clip features Delisle as he moves through several locales in his native Los Angeles, including the illustrious LA River. It was directed by SNEAL and Ben Neufeld. See it here. Heavyweights In The […]
Find No Enemy Says Occurrence Is “Truly Unique and Captivating”
Find No Enemy writes that Occurrence’s “‘Heels Over Head’ is a wildly weird and wacky piece of music that is also strangely cheerful and positive. The song is an ode to the power of love, and Occurrence brings this message to life with a colorful electronic arrangement that is both heavy and pulsating. The percussive beat is infectious, […]
New Music From Kat Niles
Cool Air is the first release from LA-based singer-songwriter and composer Kat Niles. The three-song EP moves through sprawling landscapes and half-remembered fever dreams to the depths of the self. Her voice is deft and potent, with an elastic range uncommon for its warmth and darkness. The arrangements feel wild and organic, grown around imagistic lyrics that […]
Fruit Bats, Whose New LP Americana UK Calls A “Low Key Beauty,” Hit #6 At NACC
Hell yes! Thanks to the stations that charted Fruit Bats this week and helped A River Running To Your Heart make it to #6 on the NACC Top 200. Americana UK says “A River Running to Your Heart is a low-key beauty of a record, a small and lovely triumph for a too often despondent and agitated world. It is a record […]
Principle Music Says Occurrence’s “Fudge” Is “A Masterpiece”
Principle Music calls”‘Fudge” by Occurrence “an amazing track filled with love, lust and tension. Written to be explicit in nature, this awesome piece was a project built out of the remanence of failed creative flows gone by, that were able to be connected, expanded and finally found their place to build into this masterpiece… As the track progresses so […]
Skriber Hails Matt Holubowski For His Wisdom
French site Skriber has a review of Matt Holubowski’s new album Like Flowers On A Molten Lawn and writes, “Some will see in his lyrics the wisdom of a man who has fully integrated existence for what it is, and what it entails, in particular an end. When others will perceive the stigmata of a timeless period that profoundly upset […]
Spectrum Culture Explores Fruit Bats’ New LP, #10 At NACC
According to Spectrum Culture, Fruit Bats’ new LP A River Running To Your Heart “does a good job of mixing tempos while keeping to a consistent style. It’s sort of an updated Wild West sound. It’s softer around the edges, blurred, and this creates a nicer set of songs. Sometimes country music has a way of pushing the boundaries in […]
Dren McDonald Talks To Bobby Owsinski
Bobby Owsinski recently chatted with Dren McDonald, whose new album Pterous is at radio now from Appearing Records. That album is a beautiful set of layered instrumental guitar music, but McDonald has had a long career working on video game music and may also be familiar to listeners thanks to his electronically-oriented collaborative project polyheDren. “During the interview,” Owsinski explains as a […]
WWAM Praises Occurrence For Their Lyrical Complexity And Musical Novelty
We Write About Music has an essay on Occurrence’s song “Universe Moves So Fast,” from Slow Violence, at radio now. The lyrics, according to the site, are “complex… [and cover] deep themes… The actual music portion is as impressive as ever too, although we were definitely a bit surprised by its lofi feel and aesthetic. The vocal portions were […]
New Music From Keturah
Malawian singer and songwriter Keturah, a powerful new voice for Southeast Africa, has announced that her self-titled debut album will be released on May 19 via Hen House Studios. Raised in the rural countryside, Keturah set out on foot at 14 years of age, having lost her parents, and trekked to Blantyre, Malawi’s second largest city, looking for a recording studio. […]
American Songwriter Gives Plaudits To Fruit Bats’ New Disc
American Songwriter says the new Fruit Bats album is “supremely tasty” and writes that the band “specialize in effusive indie rock, bolstering an approach that’s articulate, and sophisticated, and yet never reticent when it comes to delving into the arena occupied by intelligent power pop. In other words, they share a sound that easily transcends the usual prefab […]
Acoustic Guitar Dissects Sunny War’s “No Reason”
Acoustic Guitar recently explored the riff that fuels Sunny War’s hit song “No Reason.” The site explains, “War plays ‘No Reason’ in the key of G major, with a fourth-fret capo transposing it to B. The song is based on a curious riff that, with its pull-off ornaments and static harmony, has a non-Western vibe. At […]
