Kai Moa – Some of My Best Friends Are…Electric Sheep
“Some records feel like collections of songs. Others feel like places you briefly disappear into.” “Some of My Best Friends Are…Electric Sheep” is the kind of EP that seems determined…
Kit Cooper – Grave Concern/A Good day for Binky
“There is something unsettling about a song that sounds like it is trying to outrun its own thoughts.” “Grave Concern” wastes little time establishing its emotional world. Originally released in…
Arms & Armour – The Hunted
“There are songs that explore darkness, and then there are songs that make darkness feel like a physical place.” “The Hunted” immediately feels like it belongs somewhere between a nightmare,…
Stephani Ezatoff – Run On
“Some songs are performed; others feel like they carry generations of history with them.” “Run On” arrives with a sense of history that is difficult to separate from the music…
Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends – Sing-Along Songs
Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends Sharpen the Edges on “Sing-Along Songs” “When the world gets darker, sometimes the only sensible response is to turn the volume up and sing…
Expensive Trade – It’s MITCH
“Sometimes the most expensive thing you can lose is yourself.” There’s a delicious darkness to “Expensive Trade,” the latest chapter in It’s MITCH’s My Imaginary World. The song takes the…
Now or Never – Oskar Brandt
“Some love stories don’t end with goodbye — they end with a choice.” There is a particular kind of tension running through Oskar Brandt’s “Now or Never,” the feeling of…
The Inheritance – Keesha Blair
“The things we leave behind aren’t always the things we can hold.” “The Inheritance” takes a simple word often associated with money, possessions, and family estates and gives it a…
Noah James – Mass I Am the One
“Sometimes the loudest statement an artist can make is simply refusing to disappear.” Noah James Mass brings a restless energy to “I Am the One,” a driving alternative-rock single that…
Litvar – “Being Here”
Being Here by Litvar feels like a record made after the noise has finally died down. The band, formed in Willimantic, Connecticut, steps away from the brighter indie rock sound…