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Tiny the Dream – The Cycle

Buffalo-based outfit, Tiny the Dream, have become local mainstays after a flurry of successful releases the last few years, with their 2024 The Window EP, in particular, garnering them support and placing them a “band to watch” radar for all WNY music fans.   Earlier last month, the group, spearhead by producer Suzanne Bonifacio and artist-producer Adam Pressley, returned empathically with the release of their new EP, The Cycle, an ambitious, meditative exploration of life’s innate, meandering nature and the ways things always seem to come back around.   Sonically, the project juxtaposes elements of rock and pop seamlessly, oftentimes within the same song. “Cute Anthem,” for example, a track which Bonifacio described to have “cracked my code, getting me back here for presence, love, sharing, [and] connection,” boasts a huge, thunderous chorus that sits wonderfully between a verse-bridge segment seeping with early 2000’s pop undertones. The project’s title-track, while thematically[...]

Sweets- “WEIRD MONEY”

Manchester-based alternative pop artist Sweets gets his ASHTRAY COWBOY project rollout kicked off with an off-the-wall cut appropriately named “WEIRD MONEY.” Blending pop and electronic elements with a punky bravado and rapping delivery, “Weird Money” shows off a wide range of taste for Sweets, and sets up excitement for the album’s release. Lyrically, Sweets breaks down the weird guy/good girl relationship dynamic. “Weird boys get weird money, weird boys get good girls, good girls try to turn into your whole world.” What wins out? Option A: the desire to live life as you please, push your boundaries as an artist and be able to live out of your pocket? Or Options B: the comfort that comes with the gravitational pull of a relationship – where your actions naturally find their way back to how they’d impact your partner? Sweets digs into this and more while being a tastemaker with production choices.[...]