Austrian-born, Lisbon residing Verena Bachinger, who records as Cafe Ena, returns with her second EP โLocked Spacesโ and its lead single โMake Room.โ Western-tinged sepia groove https://youtu.be/3Sg2JRxJj7w "A variety of textures and styles - an immediately arresting...
Music Reviews
Review: Neoclassic Lovers by LeBron Aggressive
Neoclassic Lovers the new single by Berlin based electronic pop duo Lebron Aggressive begins with the eerie warble of pre-dawn synthesized song birds in a virtual world. The late night bus rumbles by, while a full moon hangs above the two single matching beds of Peter...
Review: Moyka – RIDE – Both dangerous and blissful
RIDE the new single by Norwegian artist and producer MOYKA immediately puts you in the seat of some sort of confidential situation, both dangerous and blissful, as if driving away with someone you don't really know but you can't help but wanting to escape with. Made...
Album Review: Fabian Holland Under The Red Island Bakery – “Staggeringly beautiful & intensely personal”
Under the Red Island Bakery is a staggeringly beautiful and intensely personal album by the prodigious guitarist/multi-instrumentalist and genuine song craftsman Fabian Holland. Photo by Louise O'Gorman It is hard to believe that the entire album was recorded in one...
A surreal soundtrack for a surreal world- Ziggurat by Bollard
Melbourne-based Bollardโs new single, โZigguratโ is a psychedelic spoken-word ร la The Gift by the Velvet Underground-- but about 37 percent more aggressive. Lead singer Tom Walsh spits cooly over beats reminiscent of cheeky mid-nineties brit pop anthems. ...
Review: Waking Dreams debut album ‘Askew’ – Disco meets 90s grunge meets 80s Euro rock
โAskewโ is the debut project from Berlin-based American duo Waking Dreams. The duo consists of musician, vocalist and performance artist Angela Chambers and her musical partner Jason Letkiewicz, with whom they share a long artistic relationship. The album is at once...
Review: Strange Souvenirs: Just the Facts – digital delusion & disintegration
'Facts' is the latest single to be released by dark electronic indie pop band Strange Souvenirs. https://open.spotify.com/track/6ljzjDf3jRK1x8XGDlWIsG It is a bouncy 3 minute electro-disco track that immediately makes you wanna cut the rug with some extra confidence...
Review: Seed Holden & Soldier On: a quiet strength indicative of the culmination of a formative life chapter
When Berlinโs clubs have closed and the meme that resonates most is the one where everyone forsakes their usual endless scrolling for jogs in Tiergarten during a quarantine, the general consensus is to get back to the basics. These days, even I have set aside my...
While Walking Review: a sensitivity to the sentimental terrain of each song
ย ย ย 'While Walking' is the self titled debut album by Barcelona based post rock lovers Callum (double-neck guitar/bass with a loop pedal) and Ingrid (drums). At first listen the duo emanate a straightforward, intense, melancholic homage to such legends as Mogwai or...
Review: Cynical by Echo Me – the man can sing
Echo Me, the project of Danish singer songwriter Jesper Madsen, has released a fantastically catchy, acoustic pop single. โCynicalโ explains to the listener in a light-hearted manner what it means to be plagued by negative thoughts and when to question them. The...
POSTFOREVER by Ai Fen Review: Fragemented puzzle pieces of the self
POSTFOREVER is the debut album by Polish/Chinese, Prague based artist Ai fen. The album (which I recommend should be listened to in full) feels like a shadowy auditory sculpture containing an overcast contemplativeย inner world that wrestles with the strings between...
Basil Panagop’s Romeo + Juliet: an emotionally honest bittersweet lo-fi track about love
โRomeo + Julietโ is the latest single from Canadian-born, Glasgow-based artist Basil Panagop. His upcoming album โLa La Landโ documents various moments of his childhood, with the title referring to a game he used to play with his sister and cousins. The result is an...