Bad Feeling Shares “Two Shimmering Slabs” From Braids
Bad Feeling Mag says “Slayer Moon” and “2020,” the newest releases from Montréal-based trio Braids, are “two shimmering slabs of electro-pop, offering up a welcome mix of dancefloor-ready rhythms with just enough melancholy that seems appropriate for these times.” The site has a link to the band’s recent “WWWorld premiere” of the songs – check […]
Riff Riffs With Jon Fratelli
Riff magazine has an interview with Jon Fratelli, the frontman of Scottish three-piece The Fratellis. The site even reveals his real name — click through, here, to learn what it is! Fratelli tells Riff about the making of the band’s new LP, Half Drunk Under A Full Moon, which felt almost “premeditated” due to how […]
Sunny War Chats With The Digital Fix
In a recent chat interview with Sunny War, whose Simple Syrup is at radio now, the singer/songwriter told The Digital Fix that she hopes to have a catering company one day. Fortunately for all of us, she still has a lot of music to make first! War told the fix about the making of the […]
Under The Radar Praises The “Otherworldly” Track “A Flower Blossomed” By Beams
In advance of Ego Death‘s release last month, Under The Radar premiered Beams‘ single “A Flower Blossomed.” The site praises the song’s harmonies and “driving rock” sound, on which “otherworldly spiraling melodies blossom around the band’s psychedelic textures, as the triumphant lyrics celebrate growth with touching imagery.” Read more about the track, which closes the […]
Mike Viola Joins Adam Schlesinger Tribute Lineup
Mike Viola, whose new album Godmuffin is at radio now, will be appearing as part of a star-filled tribute to Adam Schlesinger on May 5. Schlesinger, the multifaceted songwriter and frontman of Fountains of Wayne, died last year near the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic. Viola – who worked on several projects with Schlesinger and sang […]
New Music From Dev Marvelous
“It is always so incredibly flattering to have someone play or record a cover of a song I wrote, no matter what,” says Inara George of The Bird and The Bee. So, when Louisville-based producer, singer-songwriter, and pianist Devon Moore (aka Dev Marvelous) sent her an album’s worth of reinterpretations of The Bird and The […]
Rolling Stone Says Simple Syrup Is Sunny War’s Most Exciting Offering Yet
Rolling Stone writes, “California folk-punk Sunny War has released a series of increasingly sharp collections of meditative modern roots music since her 2015 debut Worthless. Her latest, Simple Syrup, is her most exciting and pop-conversant collection to date, full of weary melodic blues (‘The Losing Hand’), shrugged-off, humorous heartbreak (‘Love Is a Pest’), and urgent […]
Jon Fratelli, Fresh Off A Kelly Clarkson Appearance, Talks To Atwood Mag
“For the most part,” Atwood Magazine writes, the Fratellis‘ new LP “Half Drunk Under A Full Moon is brassy, colorful, and always a little misty-eyed. Pixie-like acoustic guitars and flappy rhythms fill in the background, while heartfelt, tender vocals dominate…” The site has a long interview with the band’s Jon Fratelli, who tells the story […]
Chicago Reader Says Sunny War Overflows With Power
Chicago Reader writes that Sunny War’s Simple Syrup, which hit a new peak at #42 last week at NACC, “follows a busy period when she launched a downtown chapter of Food Not Bombs, participated in Black Lives Matter protests, and released a couple EPs and a few singles.” On the record, recorded at Hen House […]
Great Dark Wonder Gushes Over Beams’ New LP
Beams‘ Ego Death, according to Great Dark Wonder, is a record “you cannot afford to miss… all ten tracks are simply stunning.” On the new album, the Toronto-based sextet’s sixth, “Beams move in a bold, new sonic direction, where loud guitars taking center-stage, while leaving enough room for the airy acoustic instrumentation that has defined […]
Electric Sound of Joy and Exclaim! Share New Braids Songs
“Braids never disappoint,” writes Electric Sound of Joy about the new “Slayer Moon” / “2020” double A-side, telling readers that “as ever, this new release has serious emotional heft to go with a fierce intelligence.” Check the tracks out here. The singles also got some coverage in Exclaim!, which also has stories provided by the […]
Indie For Bunnies Is Into The Pet Parade
Italian website Indie For Bunnies is into Fruit Bats‘ new album The Pet Parade, and in a recent review writes (in a loose translation provided by Google) that “This is not an album to be underestimated. Try to listen to it and every day it will seem more beautiful. Let yourself be captivated by the […]
New Music From The Fratellis
If you thought you knew The Fratellis, think again. Half Drunk Under A Full Moon, the Glasgowian trio’s sixth album, is a kaleidoscopic delight full of surprises, from its flamboyant title track and lush songs steeped in brass and strings to twists on the stomping sing-alongs for which they’re known. “There was a definite sense […]
The Indie Machine and Turn Up the Volume Gush About Beams’ New LP
Though it’s early, The Indie Machine predicts that Beams‘ Ego Death might be on its “albums of the year list.” Check out their blurb on the album right here. Turn Up The Volume is similarly stoked about the LP, bestowing “Album Of The Day” honors upon it last Monday. “If you switch from jangly pop […]
Sunny War Speaks With The Vinyl District And Rock and Roll Globe
“It doesn’t happen often” WFDU’s Evan Toth writes, “but every once in a while I drop the needle on a record and can feel something special happening; a sort of groundswell. As if something is growing, or getting ready to burst. This was my experience when listening to Sunny War’s new album, Simple Syrup.” Toth’s […]
Braids’ New Singles Earn The Approval of Stereogum and Guitar World
According to Stereogum, both of the new Braids tracks we recently serviced to radio – “Slayer Moon” and “2020” – “tap into the same sort of cascading, high-stakes melodrama that [last year’s LP] Shadow Offering excelled at.” Check them out here. Guitar World says “Slayer Moon” is an “essential” guitar track, writing that “Raphaelle Standell-Preston’s serrated lead […]
Broadway World Shares “State Of Decay” By Max Foreman
Broadway World has shared “State of Decay,” from Max Foreman‘s debut solo EP Underground. Foreman told BW that the song “is about that feeling of metamorphosis-part fatigue, part reawakening to the world around us. The lyrics depict nature gently reclaiming its territory, clawing away at the edifices of city life. The song observes a sense […]
The Arts Desk Compares Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains To Benjamin Biolay and Belle and Sebastian
The Arts Desk contends that “Frànçois Marry’s sixth album as Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains evokes warm days spent lounging in fields of clover reflecting on friendship, places visited and journeys which could be undertaken. Banane Bleue’s 10 tracks are unhurried and delivered as if Marry had just woken up… If Benjamin Biolay had a UK […]
Folk Radio Points Out Sunny War’s “Remarkable Depth” As She Aims For NACC Debuts This Week
As Folk Radio UK observes, Sunny War “is a woman of remarkable depth. She is also a woman who doesn’t shy away from dealing with difficult topics, seeming almost drawn to them.” A few of these difficult topics make their way onto War’s newest LP, Simple Syrup, which is going for NACC Top 200 and Folk debuts […]
Higher Plain Says Beams Present “Psyche Folk-Rock At Its Finest”
In its 9.5/10 review of the new Beams LP, Higher Plain Music writes that Ego Death is “psyche folk-rock at its finest.” Comparing the Toronto band to Tanya Donnelly and praising “how harmonious the musicians are,” the site says the album is fantastic due to its “attention to detail.. [and] some killer riffs.” Read the […]
