Rachel Eckroth’s composer creativity thrives in the “The Garden”
Composer, pianist, vocalist, and clever arranger, Rachel Eckroth, reminds listeners on her newest LP, The Garden (Rainy Days Records, 2021), that imagery paired with music – even…
Get a surge of dopamine and nostalgia with VNRVLY’s new EP
Mixing of genres of instrumental-bending of music typically known in one style often raises eyebrows, either out of shock and displeasure or curiosity and intrigue.…
Don’t press snooze on Tin Can Collective’s “Axiomatic Alarm Clock”
There’s something about the particular way in which Long Island, NY quintet, Tin Can Collective, repeatedly leaves listeners stylistically stumped and-or cramming multiple musical labels under…
Indulge in the imaginary innocence of Josselin Prud’hom’s “Le Louphoque”
Who hasn’t at some point or another, decided to “play tourist” for a day or a weekend, in the place they call home? It’s a…
“People, Let’s Dance” to Public Service Broadcasting’s new single
Public Service Broadcasting is a group that’s long been hard to sonically summarize. The sounds and arrangement thereof that the London, England band have implemented…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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.…