Sharon Court’s voice makes merry with a blushing beat when “Planet 8” begins to play, but for as powerful a moment as her first few lines create in this brilliant song from Andy Michaels’ new album Incendiary Heart, it pales in comparison to the chill-inducing energy...
Stylistic hybrids were everywhere we looked in 2019, and Jonathan Emile’s “Moses” is probably one of the more interesting that I heard in the last month or so. Mixing elements of pop, folk and mild R&B into its melodies, “Moses” is a melting pot of...
2019 was a banner year for experimental artists around the planet, with some of the most prolific content we’ve heard in a generation making its way out of the woodwork and into the public lexicon for the very first time. Among the more intriguing releases...
“Staring up at the ceiling, ‘cause I won’t be sleeping tonight” croons Jon Gonzalez in a smoky, angst-ridden vocal as his new single “Holding On” begins to play, his voice echoing the same melancholic melody that the piano is pushing out of our speakers at...
Drifting through the air with the delicacy of a feather, piano keys lust after one another in a tizzy as “Piano Sonata No. 1: II. Andante in D Minor” begins to play, and as this second movement in Joseph Seif’s Piano Sonata No. 1 continues on, it...
Guided by an oozing guitar melody that is unlike any other that we hear in the songs beside it in the tracklist of the This Time record Two, “Street Walking Blues” doesn’t waste a second in gripping us with its molasses-like harmonies. Here, This Time wants...
With a playful volley of strings and a growing harmony that only gets sweeter as we go deeper into the song, “Sweet Molly” sees The New Texas String Band not wasting any time in getting right into the guts of their melodic bluegrass attack, and...
In her latest record, titled Benny’s TV Repair, country/bluegrass singer/songwriter Irene Kelley strips away the unnecessary elements from her sound and delivers an easygoing dream spread out across eleven premium songs. In tracks like the seductive “Thunderbird,” Kelley reminds us of just how powerful a voice...
With a slow-handed sway, Oliver James invites us into the gentle opening melody of “Still Holding My Breath” and the fragmented harmony it so rustically frames. In this song, and all three that join it in the tracklist of James’ new EP The Hardest Part, our...
Pendulous but not sluggish in the least, there’s a certain easygoingness to the swaggering beat we find in The Imaginaries’ sweet Christmas ballad “First Thing on My Christmas List” that is as integral to the creation of its mood as its richly textured lead vocals...