The music of Hannah Baiardi’s new album comes “Straight from the Soul”
Though Hannah Baiardi’s sophomore release, Straight from the Soul bears a title that implies a sense of directness, of being blunt in its musical personality,…
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Slowfox combines cleverness and consideration to find “Freedom”
The music of Freedom, the new album from Cologne, Germany jazz trio Slowfox, wasn’t created around the band’s own unique interpretation of the idea of freedom.…
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Jonas Myrin extends an unconditionally open hand “For the Ones We Love”
Jonas Myrin loves to embrace grandeur but, not for reasons of amplifying himself. This is easy to understand when one considers all the ways Myrin doesn’t try to get…
The Rumjacks welcome the dawn of a new era with “Light in My Shadow”
Sometimes, a song that presents very little in the way of lyrical lines, chords, or instruments can in fact lead to a sonically heavy, deliberately…
Pack some good headphones and go on a “Vacation” with Foley
Out of nowhere we became so all the time I didn’t notice I was focused Not counting the fact that Foley is a duo…
There’s refreshing beauty in Flowering Branches’ “Blossom and Decay” (Premiere Play)
What better way is there for a band born in late 2020 to identify themselves, than though the wholesome beauty and hopeful promise of something…
Creative energy flows freely on Aura’s debut
So much time over the past year can be described by a perceived feeling of “never-ending”: incessant chaos, incessant uncertainty, incessant loneliness and, most fundamentally,…
Aaron Taos and his marvelous tribute “For Marv”
There is really no way, nor is there necessarily a reason, to approach a release like Aaron Taos’s new EP, For Marv, through a traditional music review…
Evil Sweet’s new EP is more than just “4 the Singles” out there
Not all that different from the way life is now playfully referred to under the dual pandemic related contexts of either “the present” or “the…
Time for country music to get off its high horse
Dear Country Music Establishment / Mainstream Country Music Machine: This piece of open and public correspondence isn’t aiming in any way, to begin (re)-examining the…
The Sonder Bombs sew together vulnerability and courage with “Clothbound”
A band like The Sonder Bombs has plenty of intriguing elements of creative drive and influence at its disposal, with which to grab listener attention.…
Marc Urselli finds the right mix of ideas to keep an open mind in a closed world
When evaluating the state of worldwide health means studying – in formal research labs – risk assessment for an activities as harmless as singing and…