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The Juniper Berries – “Online”

January 29, 2024

Austin based multi-instrumentalist Josh Stirm is the architect of The Juniper Berries and has formed the tracks for his upcoming album, Death and Taxes, by distilling grief and dissonance into melancholic yet cathartic tunes that simultaneously breaks your heart and mends you with each note. Stirm had his Grandfather and brother pass away in 2020 and that experience has defined this stage in his life and his music, filling it with harrowing pain and world tilting revelations. The poignant and masterfully-paced new single “Online” is a thrilling taste of his upcoming album that is due out this April. Stirm weaves textures and tones with his delicately harmonized vocals with an ingenious skill. He places tantalizing spaces between words and notes that creates a irresistible pacing that will enrapture you. Stirm has the capacity to illuminate dark venerable corners of human experience, as he sings “I found my baby online, next[...]

SAMSARA – “Piece of Me”

January 29, 2024

Five piece rock outfit SAMSARA are a young group but have quickly become a loved piece of the Queens/Long Island music scene. The band has cut their chops by playing local festivals and winning battle and the bands, and continue to elevate their craft by working with acclaimed producers. Their latest single, “Piece of Me,” is exemplary of the melodic alt-rock sound they have been nurturing over the past few years. The new song has bombastic drums that pound your chest, incendiary dueling guitar melodies, and vocals that are soulful and impassioned. Listening to the fat wails of guitar will make you want to see their high energy live show to witness the young rockers hypnotize you with their big rock sound. Fans of Kings of Leon, The Kooks, and JAPANDROIDS with find lots to love on this one. Listen to SAMSARA’s new single “Piece of Me” on Spotify, and[...]

CHUCK – “Nothing Matters To Me Now”

January 22, 2024

Brooklyn/Oslo based artist Charles Griffin Gibson, AKA CHUCK, had his final full length released in 2017 with Frankenstein Song for the Grocery Store, but Gibson’s catalog of unreleased songs started to tug on his creative spirit (check our previous features on him HERE and HERE). Gibson is putting back on the mantle of the cult favorite CHUCK, and bringing us new music to drop out and fade in to. The simultaneously breezy and acrid “Nothing Matters To Me Now” is the first jam Gibson chose to start this new slew of releases. “Nothing Matters To Me Now” blends classic pop hooks, irreverent 90’s guitar lines and lyricism, New Wave synths, and creates a crushing wall of blissed out sounds reminiscent of shogaze and emo. The chorus boils over with pop energy as retro synths ring out with the lushness of kazoos giving the whole track a haze of nostalgia and[...]

Tamar Berk – “Permanent Vacation”

January 22, 2024

This past August, Tamar Berk released her third album, tiny injuries, a warm cathartic journey through her grief that shows how to accept a thousand tiny cuts, heal, and make their scars a part of you (Check of previous feature on her HERE). Berk has just released her new single off that LP, the indie rock jammer “Permanent Vacation.” Berk’s songcraft and lyricism are adeptly wielded as ear worm guitar lines buzz and jangle with a Wurlitzer melody and brass blasts bringing a warm radiance of sunshine to melancholic lyrics. “Permanent Vacation” has a dynamic range of tones that burst and blossom like exotic fruits on your taste buds, all while staying grounded in the indie-rock 90’s palette that she has such reverence for. Fans of Liz Phair, Pavement, and Ween will find lots to love on the new single. Here is Berk talking about her new single; “Permanent Vacation”[...]

Snavs – Want Me Back (feat. Karl Boëthius)

January 20, 2024

Danish DJ and producer Snavs has a catalog full of enticing and unusual collaborations, and his latest continues that trend of potent pairings by featuring the killer vocals of Swedish artist Karl Boëthius. Together they bring us the new chill-dance release “Want Me Back,” a vivacious and alluring track with sumptuous vocals and coiled, rubbery synth wizardry. The song feels like cruising through a glistening, neon lit metropolis with brief moments, when the pace slows before the breakdown, that feel like a night’s breeze cooling the sweat on the back of your neck, just before the night life wraps around you, thrilling your senses, filling you with punch drunk momentum. Fans of Lookas, Diplo, or Major Lazer will find lots to love in this alt-pop banger from Snavs. Here he is talking about the new song: “I got this brilliant vocal from Karl and wanted to create a tight, bouncy[...]

Rangleklods – “Breathe In, Breathe Out”

January 16, 2024

Esben Nørskov Andersen is the electronic wizard from Copenhagen, AKA Rangleklods, (check our previous features on him HERE and HERE) and he’s released the title track from his latest album Breathe In, Breathe Out. It’s an undeniably groovy and heady synth track which will mesmerize you with inventive soundscapes and varied timbres. Andersen has impeccable pacing in “Breathe In, Breathe Out,” using pauses and breaths in his melodies that create tension. This jilts the groovy flow before releasing the tension with a big blooming refrain that gets your shuffling your feet, bobbing your head, and swaying your hips. No moment inside of Andersen’s tracks are standard – he crafts and fixates over every tone and structure until the sounds you hear have been worked and warped into something utterly original, custom tailored to express his vision. He here is talking about the new track and how life shapes his craft:[...]

Asha Wells – “The Carousel”

January 16, 2024

Asha Wells is an indie-folk artist from the Bay Area and is releasing their anticipated new EP, Tears of a Clown, on Friday, February 10th, 2024 via Anxiety Blanket Records. Tears of a Clown features the resonant, intimate track “The Carousel” that features nuanced dynamics that braid like a double helix made of smoke as the song unfurls. The encircling music wraps around you, gently constricting you with each loop of the proverbial carousel. Every lap winds the bittersweet revelation of what first was a heart-swelling immersion, involuntarily transmuted to detached nostalgia. Wells has explored new orchestrations and has implemented tones that ring and linger like a water harp or synths that travel backwards like they are reminiscing. You will cherish Wells’ use of layered guitar lines that take turns being delicately tapped with stiletto styling or strummed with a warm vibrato. Wells’ vocals are haunting and expressive, ethereal while[...]

Brookside Mall – “NNNYN”

November 8, 2023

Brookside Mall is bringing us their first new release in over five years with No More Fragrant Thoughts which is due January of 2024. Our first sniff of the project is their new song “NNNYN,” a shaggy indie rock jam that throws haymakers at listless uncertainty. Warbly guitar lines burble and glorp over one another sounding like it’s pouring out of concrete piping while a thumping drum rhythm impacts your chest with an industrial cadence. “Being twenty eight and still chasing contract work /Makes me a foster dog, my life a firework” is the growling preamble that echoes with dissatisfied acrimony, setting the scene for the chest-emptying chorus coming to combat the building exasperation. That leads in a teeth gnashing chorus that will have you howling “Give me something I can hit” as you thirst for that circumstance of empowering adequacy in the face of a vexing and bewildering existence in[...]

teddy<3 - "i belong here"

November 8, 2023

L.A. based, Grammy nominated songwriter Teddy Geiger, under her moniker teddy<3, just released her new album Teresa. She is coupling that release with her new single “i belong here,” an indie cut that is bursting with momentous atmosphere and layered shoegaze influences. Teresa formed itself out of a formative journey through Madrid that had the artist expressing her deepest vulnerabilities and innermost feelings, pouring her heart and soul onto the page, using the act of writing as a method for both personal healing and spiritual purification. That earnest catharsis is felt throughout “i belong here”, as a pulsing driven rhythm creates a heart filling momentum that galvanizes the layered, reverb soaked guitar textures that change from a laconic melancholy to a feeling of a head rush that would be brought upon by night air of a enchanted Madrid night. The interplay of the lush textures and dynamic rhythm that fades[...]

Shuttle – “One More Job”

November 8, 2023

Shuttle’s newest single just hit, and it’s our first taste of their upcoming EP. “One More Job” is a laid back psychedelic indie-pop cut whose off-kilter charms hook you indefinitely (check our previous feature on them here). Nostalgia dripped guitar lines strum before tripped-out synths take you to extraterrestrial planes and a groovin’ bass locks into a tight drum beat striking you with danceable effects. Shuttle grounds the psychedelic elements of his synths, vocals, and reverbed guitars with rich velvety bass and fat drum slaps that really take the pop track to new heights at the chorus. Here, Shuttle coo’s in falsetto “One more job to do/Then I’m done/Nothing left to lose/If you’re gone” showcasing that all too familiar brain space of chasing an elusive happiness in the promise of the future. The track has some gorgeous builds with synths blooming into a dispersion field before Shuttle cuts them with[...]

Rangleklods – “Alien”

November 8, 2023

Copenhagen-based musical maverick Rangleklods, aka Esben Nørskov Andersen (check our previous feature on them here), has a new full length, titled Breathe In, Breathe Out slated for Feb 9th 2024. The latest glimpse into the electronic wizard’s upcoming project is the single “Alien” which combines his signature sonic experiments with a heavy, groovy beat, creating a captivating and paradoxical experience. Andersen’s mind-bending perspective is on full display with “Alien” as the songwriter pitches his vocals to a guttural low level to simulate the effect of hearing his voice inside the stomach of his pregnant wife, as the “Alien” here is the growing creature that would be his first child that was born last year. Andersen stretches his synths and lets the tension coil them back in on themselves creating a bouncing, undulating melody that is filled with head turning textures and production wizardry. He pairs mesmerizing production with songwriting that[...]

Wild Arrows – “Got To Know”

November 3, 2023

Mike Law, aka Wild Arrows, has been shapeshifting his sound for nearly a decade, each release re-imagining his identity while holding onto his core identifying qualities of a singular voice, eccentric songwriting and crushing lyrics. Law’s latest single “Got To Know” takes those tenets and folds them into a glimmering indie pop shape that affects as much as it dazzles. Law’s voice arrests your attention as its plosives pop with each punch of gurgling bass synth. Shining tones flare and shimmer as they take turns peering out from the thick of the synth groove thus creating a flirtatious mood that provokes you as it seduces you. Fans of MGMT and Passion Pit will find lots to love on this single. Listen to Wild Arrows new single “Got To Know” now on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. Catch more from Wild Arrows on their Instagram and Linktree.

Unknown Venus – “The Worst”

November 3, 2023

Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and harpist Unknown Venus is an emerging artist that just started releasing their music to the masses. Her latest cut to make waves is the brooding and acidic single “The Worst” that boils over with rage filled bile brought out from a relationship that turns from bond to exploitation. Venus sings with a dispassionate tone that wilts its target with a acerbic, barren, frigid inflection that perfectly encapsulates the songs message by tone alone. She etches the songs chorus with a corrosive tongue “You want the best for me, I guess I want the worst for you.”  Venus crafts a melting world with guitar lines that disperse and cascade down with diffuse tones while a muted kick drum hammers like a heart pounding with hate after your psyche has fully realized how little someone close to you values you. Fans of EMA, Mitski, and Angel Olsen[...]

REW – “Plastic Lungs”

October 24, 2023

Indie act REW has just released their new single “Plastic Lungs,” an enigmatic cut that blends shoegaze, bedroom pop, indie, and doom to great effect. Electronics beep and squeal to open the track, creating a structural skeleton that REW’s layered vocals fill like plumes of smoke before the most exciting aspect of the track kicks in, a deep dropped guitar melody that lurches the whole track forward with a hefty stride. The doomy notes churn and bubble while REW sings a hook that surfs on that voided out guitar tone. “Plastic Lungs” blends the songwriting sensibilities of Elliot Smith with the crushing fuzz of Smashing Pumpkins and Deftones and is definite worth numerous spins. Listen to “Plastic Lungs” the new single from REW on Spotify, Bandcamp, Apple Music, Youtube. Find more from REW on TikTok Born Losers Records – Too · REW – Plastic Lungs

Psychic Shakes – “Home”

October 24, 2023

Plymouth-based Max McLellan, aka Psychic Shakes, brings us his latest single, “Home,” a hazy lo-fi indie jam that captures the conflicting pang of melancholy and warmth of love adeptly. 2022 was a pivotal year for Max that shaped his songwriting, he and his partner’s joyful discovery of impending parenthood led to a profound reevaluation of his artistry in a post-pandemic world. McLellan’s confessional songwriting bares fruit as he wrangles with this new identity and how that perspective tilt tints the world, revealing shades of life that were muted before. “Home” has a warm ennui driven perfectly with warbly guitar energy that exemplifies Max’s bittersweet revelation of missing your home when the world shifts beneath your feet, while always finding a haven with the partner you love. Listen to “Home” by Psychic Shakes on Spotify, Bandcamp and Apple Music. Find more from Psychic Shakes on their Instagram Good Eye Records ·[...]