Tag: Alt Pop
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Shelita Lets Desire Lead on “Open To You”, a Warm R&B-Pop Single About Trust and Getting Close
The song ‘Open To You’ is at the stage of attraction in which flirting begins to have real consequences. It has a relaxed tempo and Shelita’s warm voice is in…
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Eon ReZ Brings Blues, Gospel and Big Ideas Together on “Strings of Connection”
“Strings of Connection,” from his second album, “The Resonance of Existence,” puts those interests inside a blend of rock, soul, blues and electronic percussion.
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Tatiana Kruz Turns Post-Breakup Temptation Into a Catchy Confession on “Son Ex”
The strongest point of “Son Ex” is its accessibility. Tatiana Kruz wants the refrain to stay in the listener’s head while keeping the message clear. The idea comes fast. The…
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Golden Fez and KAIT Let the Silence Speak on “All That You Need”
“All That You Need” carries the same warmth and vitality that first drew me to Golden Fez on “Pretty Blue Eyes.” That familiar spark arrives within the opening seconds. The…
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Tessa Rae Explores the Cost of Love on New Single ‘Lovers Always Lose’
Sometimes I come across tracks that are very quiet but at the same time very loud. Not in a bad sense, though — I mean that they seem to creep…
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Cj Gill Finds His Voice On “Time To Go”
Some songs take years to find their shape. This one took six of them. CJ Gill spent that stretch writing on Chicago’s South Side before packing up for Nashville, and…
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MILYAM EMPIRE’s New Single Makes a Promise in the Title and Spends Three Minutes Keeping It
“Intimacy” is a track where the title makes a promise and the production tries to keep it. Atmospheric downtempo, R&B underneath, most of the air cleared out. MILYAM‘s phrasing is…
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CGMB’s Set Your Heart Ablaze Earns Every One of Its Twenty-Six Tracks
CGMB (who built this entire album alone, bedroom-produced, self-mixed, self-mastered) answers both questions in the affirmative, and the arc he’s constructed across the runtime earns the length in a way…
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“Praise Me” Highlights the Push-Pull of Staying in the Wrong Relationship
There’s a very specific kind of hell in knowing someone’s bad for you and staying anyway. Birmingham’s ROZZZQWEEN has built a track around exactly that feeling, and “Praise Me” doesn’t…
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Ghosts, Fog and Neon Lights: A Journey into Other Worlds with the EP ‘Five Phantoms’ by Former Child Star
Our hero, a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Brisbane, effortlessly transports the listener to the edge of the real and the mystical. His music is the complete opposite of Australia’s sunny…