Vincent Littlehat is something of an anomaly: despite success as a professional performer, dancer and model, she is all but invisible... which makes me wonder if thereโs something behind the somewhat Scandinavian intonation of her vocals on the opening of Dreaming You...
Music Reviews
ORIAN Releases Debut EP Before It Weighs Us Down: “the comfort that allows me to climb out of myself”
ORIAN releases his brand new EP Before It Weighs Us Down today. There must, in the end, be a thousand different reasons why people make music. ORIAN's? โI wanted this collection of music to be the comfort for me that allows me to climb out of myself, as so much music...
Review: Idiot’s Dream by Freddie Dickson: intimate and disarming with a flare of Nick Cave
British Indie Singer-Songwriter Freddie Dickson Berlin inspired new EP Idiot's Dream is out June 4th, 2021, via Shakey Records. The EP's title track Idiot's Dream starts out with ominous jangling electric guitar chords and an ethereal phantom falsetto before dropping...
Review of Into the Stars by Vincent Littlehat / Chris Zippel
Why look into the stars? To find experimental pop/dance singer songwriter Vincent Littlehatโs hypnotic new single and video โInto The Starsโ (Allisum Records), out today (28.5) The three-minute dance alterna-pop confection is a collaboration with Berlin based...
Review: Nothing2 by Strange Souvenirs: rolling orchestral crescendos and a blood-spattered drunken choir
The Berlin/Hamburg based brothers Thomas and Matthias Juhnke a.k.a. Strange Souvenirs are back out the shadows of The Famous Gold Watch Studios with their latest single 'Nothing2'. After repeating this song about 6 times in a row on my first listen, a strangely...
Antonio Herrera’s pure pop single Stuck on U is the diametric opposite of grey winter months of lockdown blues
Mexican singer-songwriter Antonio Herrera moved frequently between Mexico and the US, but wanting to break away and do something else, he came to Berlin to explore the city's vibrant music scene. As many before him, he fell in love with the city and stayed. Four years...
Music Report: search for hope and battles with yourself in these brand new albums
New edition of Music Report with some exciting debuts and comebacks.
EP Review: Bird Dreams – soulful indie pop that rewards a replay
An accomplished slice of soulful indie pop that rewards more than a few replays. On first listen โGolden Streetโ took me back to the 90โs when I was listening to Fiona Apple and Luscious Jackson, itโs indie pop alright but good indie pop. Itโs polished, tight and...
ripe with bittersweet melancholy: Mumbai-born Berlin-based DJ TG01 releases debut single
Abbas Khambati aka, TG01 is a Berlin based music producer and DJ from Mumbai, India. On April 2, 2021 he released his debut single 'Howdoilookintoyoureyes?' (HDILIYE) with Berlin independent electronic music label Four Clouds Records. The track starts out with a...
Angela Chambers new single The Illusion out now
Angela Chambers is a US singer, songwtier and experimental musician from the US who relocated to Berlin a few years ago. After delving into the Berlin indie scene and collaborating with various independent Berlin music hotshots while also working on her own music -...
Music Report: most exciting debut albums and big comebacks
Angsty punk, can’t-stop-dancing pop, and a continuous search for light and peace. Many debut albums so you could stay in the loop of the most exciting freshmen.
Review: Where Time Suspends by Rosie Nimmo – diamond-studded with brilliant ballads
'Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone,' so goes the bittersweet first track of Rosie Nimmo's long awaited fourth album, Where Time Suspends. https://open.spotify.com/album/71hQYdLIObe2S6FvzUL3Mu?si=X2oKwXsXQw6H9l7Bs1Pqkg Beneath the sunny...