Tag: Indie Rock
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Awake & Dreaming’s Inevitable: Gothic Alt-Rock, Arena Ambition and One Killer Finale
Awake & Dreaming have a frontperson who sings inward and a band that plays outward, and their debut album Inevitable spends ten songs testing how long those instincts can occupy…
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Dan Webb Announces Fifth Album “Lion Dance,” Featuring Musicians Behind Bowie, Prince and Radiohead
Dan Webb has spent the past 18 years making genre labels work overtime. Progressive keyboard rock, post-punk, electro-jazz and psychedelic fusion have all passed through his catalogue, usually colliding somewhere…
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ELROD Captures Raw Analog Magic on ‘I Am, I Am (Live To Tape)’
Listeners who have heard the new track “I Am, I Am (Live To Tape)” by ELROD just can’t stay quiet: this is some kind of absolutely magical indie rock. It…
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ØZWALD Release New Single “Stream of Dreams” Ahead of Eighth Studio Album
This week brought a new track worth discovering: “Stream of Dreams” by ØZWALD. Genre-wise it’s dreampop with a psych-indie texture, but the duo, it seems, managed to take it beyond…
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gunshots or fireworks Return With Their Second EP “DÉSORDRE”
There’s a particular kind of desert-band restlessness running through DÉSORDRE, the second EP from Arizona’s gunshots or fireworks. All four tracks on the EP DÉSORDRE have ’90s indie-rock DNA running…
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“Cold Shoulder” Sees Awake & Dreaming Go From Piano to Arena-Scale Rock
Awake & Dreaming come from Waterloo, Ontario, with Kristoff joined by guitarist Stefan Schneider, bassist Phil Lee and drummer Ryan Dugal. On “Cold Shoulder”, the four-piece work somewhere between alternative…
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Nearly Skulls Release New Single “Wear The Scars”
“Wear The Scars” by Nearly Skulls is a pinch of melancholy that gradually turns into joy. At first glance, Nearly Skulls present a typical sound. Standard, slightly minor-key indie rock,…
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Pop Rock Done Right: Astrid Yan Delivers on “Aqui Ya No”
Today I want to go through the single ‘Aqui Ya No’ by Astrid Yan. It hit my mood right away, and, well, that doesn’t happen all the time. Here’s everything…
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Tara Craig’s I’ve Been Looking for You: Caregiving, Exhaustion and Everyday Grace
Falling in love adds another item to the schedule. The world keeps asking for attention, your own mind keeps sending reminders, and somebody has left the Winter Olympics running beside…
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Alex Solely’s Cascade: Essential Minimalism with a Quietly Complicated Personality
On my first listen to Alex Solely’s forthcoming Cascade, I admired the calm, marked Cascade of Nothing as the obvious centerpiece, and assumed the album had already disclosed its entire…