Category: Reviews
Vela Jones Turns Homesickness Into Sci-Fi Soul on “Back To Blue”
Vela Jones works in that space between art-pop and something a little more atmospheric and electronic, music that manages to feel handmade and machine-built at the same time. She debuted…
Sgt. Splendor Turn Bravery Into a Question on “Brave, Rough, and Ready to Go”
Sgt. Splendor is built from two artists who each had a full career before they ever teamed up. Kate Vargas built her name as a songwriter with a knack for…
Plain Drifter Blends Old and New Rock on “Rust”
Plain Drifter is an Australian singer-songwriter with a habit of doing basically everything himself, writing, arranging, playing, and producing his own material rather than farming any of it out. “Rust”…
Bliss Carmxn Returns With New Single “One Shot”
Bliss Carmxn is the project of Adam Kaasa, a Canadian-born, London-based artist whose work stretches well beyond music into academia, curation, and performance. The name itself has a literary root,…
The Sonic Travelers Unearth a Decades-Old Song on “Please Comfort Me”
The Sonic Travelers are based out of Henderson, Nevada, and built around longtime songwriting partners George Aiello and John Ingram, whose creative history together stretches back to the 1970s. Rather…
A’shon Galaxy Turns a Fading Night Into a Slow-Dance Meditation on “Save The Last Dance”
A’shon Galaxy works in the space where vintage neo-soul meets contemporary R&B, building songs around warmth, atmosphere, and a vocal style that leans dreamy rather than showy. “Save The Last…
RA Studio Builds a Bridge Out of Ancient Symbols on “A Medley on Slavic Vedas”
RA Studio is the project of Russia-based artist Sergey Yartsev, working in a rock-pop space but building songs around something bigger than genre. “A Medley on Slavic Vedas” is his…
Cam Cole Turns Up the Heat on New Single “Get Up Ya Honky Tonk”
Cam Cole built his name the hard way, playing solo on street corners in Camden with nothing but a guitar strapped to his back and a kick drum rigged to…
GOHAR Casts a Spell With the Hushed “Fairy”
GOHAR was born in Gyumri, Armenia, and now calls Salzburg, Austria home. She started music school at five, fell hard for opera by eleven, and eventually earned a degree in…
AGAM – The Ascension
AGAM formed in Bangalore in 2003 with a premise that should have been harder to pull off than it turned out to be. Carnatic classical music and progressive rock are…
