We Steal Flyers - Sidecars & Sideshows review

Year : 2013
Genre : Acoustic Singer/Songwriter
Label : Independent
Origin : United Kingdom
Official site : > - here - <

We Steal Flyers is a massively acoustic country duo with thorough touring experience under their belt, as the cohesive unit plays 250 shows a year, and is after an extensive US based sonic campaign as you read this review.

The music is gentle, well suited to ease your craving for orthodox country patterns and fascinations, and is resonated with true love towards the style with not many - if any - unwanted surprises to litter the crystal clear agenda. Boundaries are respected throughout, and the reoccurring relative lack of percussive instruments - there are tasteful exceptions - certainly gives an especially intimate tint to the overall listening experience. Read on to know more about this.

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Little Dove - debut EP review

Year : 2013
Genre : Rock with a dark, morose tint
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

The Little Dove duo is yet to produce a recording coming from a professional production environment, which fortunately did not prevent this unit of two from releasing live (!) recordings of their trade. When you go for the music "itself", the ensuing shape reminds me of the most wildest-, the wildestest - sorry about that - top form of Kidneythieves, - a fellow industrial cyberneticorganism act from Lost Angeles - consorted with an image of delirium-grade Nirvana. You can hear verbatim harmonic structures from certain Nirvana songs, but they are complimented by freshly fabricated and relevant ideas. The lead singer chick can sing like there is no tomorrow, while sticking to a guitar with both hands in the process. Her rhythm guitar playing is surprisingly ballsy and relevant, as is the rhythm section, that fuels and guarantees crude yet efficient beat-backrop environments for the crystal clear respective anatomies the songs convey. Read on to know more about this.

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fractals

GyZ gives you the song : fractals. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics : instrumental

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Gotham Heights - Wake Up, Now Go To Sleep single review

Year : 2013
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : SpaceLAB Recordings
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Gotham Heights is coming through a space-time rift near you with a full fledged long play from which the group releases the first single in an attempt to stimulate interest. Notice this : since you are reading this, they are succeeding masterfully. Following traditional standards of attentiveness, Gotham Heights delivers the single not through one, but in three distinctive formats, even including an acapella version with "just" the rapped lyrical content in it. If this is not an invitation for a Waltz towards the upcoming producer, then I do not know what is.

I have decided to include the official press release that have came with this bundle, after which I will share my brief personal sentiments with you regarding the track. Stay tuned, and read on to know more about this introductory single.

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Jason Daryush - Three Cities review

Year : 2013
Genre : Alternative Rock, Radio Rock with a Post Grunge tint
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Jason Daryush sounds to be a quite competent representative both of massively guitar centered quasi-morose highway rock and of exquisite bonfire-elegia with a post grunge overtone to it, and THIS highway does not even lead to Hell, nor encourages one to hit up the offices to obtain a pair of tickets for the permanent vacation. (One for you, one for your insecurities.)

Technically speaking, the Three Cities audio package comes to you as a declaration satisfying all the prime format criteria of a solid extended play, yet, since there is no official indication on the site that the album is of such targeted stature, the review concentrates on the audio content, as opposed of its structural attributes. Read on to know more about this.

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a Project S.N.A.R.E. listening session

Year : 2009 to present day
Genre : Experimental with Psychedelic overtones
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Project S.N.A.R.E. is a collaborative effort between various artists, centered primarily around  the sonic gravitational pulls established by the overall musical direction of Scan Hopper - review here and here - yet more emphasis is devoted towards experimental tendencies.

Flamboyancy and a keen readiness to offer clear thoughts through well varied saturations are key ingredients on these unusually eloquent deliveries. The music still is psychedelic quasi-soft rock at heart - heft-rode insanity and gritty distortion power are not on the current invitee list - but the structural elements of the music are simultaneously less/more constrained, courtesy of the smart limitations regarding the mere sonic real estate they are occupying - seldom are the times that a given segment would entertain the fabric for more than a couple of minutes, and the listener's musical awareness is courted skillfully along gentle registers of constant variation.

A given musical space is traded for yet another on a relentless-, yet tame "basis-tunnel", while the element of interconnection between these environments equates with the overall tone of these collective contributions that never lose sight of a massively psychedelic, yet gently experimental agenda. They can live on their own, and they can be assembled to a monolith-experience for the enjoyment of the devoted soulseeka'. Read on to know more about the project.

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Scan Hopper - Scan Hopper review

Year : 2009
Genre : Psychedelic Soft Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

With its 2009 debut release, Scan Hopper showcases its profound fascination with the White Rabbit in the respective contexts of even milder-, yet not less interesting psy-rock rhetorics the second disc is testament of. This initial tendency is once again - such is the nature of retrospect - traded in for a more reckless narrative from time to time, yet, oddly enough, there are occasions by which the band wraps a seemingly perfectly good idea up in 2 minutes or less - as is the case, I feel, with track number 4, called "Notes for the Face (Plumage Rock)", for example. There are numerous other instances on the debut that seems to solidify this impression, and I will elaborate on it.

Despite the two years that separate the two contributions in the timeline of the reality fabric - (DON'T even) imagine the chaos that would ensue were you'd have to listen to ALL songs of the cosmos at once - the narrative similarities in the components of this double barreled psychedelic delicacy are notable and even welcomed. Read on to know more about this.

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Scan Hopper - Scan Hopper 2 review

Year : 2011
Genre : Soft Rock with a Chillout and Psychedelic tendency
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

There is something wildly authentic, impertinently original and nihilistically rebellious about if and when you name your second self titled album with a numeric indication of its sequential nature, and this exactly is what Austin based ensemble Scan Hopper did with their 2011 second full length Scan Hopper 2. The music, as noted on the group's BandCamp site, is optimized rather for optimum enjoyment, as opposed of being optimized for maximum loudness paua'. The claim is well supported by the perpetuated rendition of the soulfully realized space/psychedelic/soft/chillout rock you will find on this declaration. The content occupies a narrative musical space between Pink Floyd and the rock traditions of late '60s and early '70s, though veterans claim that if you remember the '60s, you weren't even there. Read on to know more about the disc.

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an Idrise listening session

Year : 2012
Genre : Pop with a Club Lounge and Soft Techno affection
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Washington DC based Idrise is a young man armed with a voice timber reminiscent  to that which you have heard in melodic boy groups reigning prominent at the end of the past century, yet a style, once established, tends to stick around and Idrise is doing a devoted and sterile sounding  job amidst the boundaries he feels comfortable to deliver between. Beside the noted narrative similarities with all the renowned boy groups of the post modern r&b era, the most eminent attribute of the music that sets it apart from the peers is a more hefty and dynamic demeanor that finds quick and trusty pleasure in a submissive tendency expressed towards the timeless charms of 4/4 pummel, now cultivated on a tamer quasi-lounge register. Do you remember the band Snap? Believe it or not, they had other songs than "I've Got the Power", - though I'm not sure - and Idrise's music manages to summon the same authenticity, albeit the reliance on pitch correction is a tad more than one would keenly tolerate without bitchwhining a line about it. Read on to know more about this Idrise listening session.

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C-Zar Van Gogh - This Time Next Year review

Year : 2012
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : SpaceLAB Recordings
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

SpaceLAB Recordings is a New York based workshop and full time music studio dedicated to the propagation of high profile hip hop that isn't afraid to focus on a positivistic behavioral attitude instead of the "ye dead, maffaka!'" obligations, but don't let this direction fool you into thinking that what you are about to be subjected to is cheesefest-compatible dinner table affair with the approval of enthusiastic Dr. Phil residents who love to showcase saggy chunks of lazy meat hanging on their arms upon clapping each time the host signifies the end of the current sentence with the rigor of a fractal eyebrow that puts the average lightning bolt to shame. The premiere mastermind behind the SpaceLAB enterprise is Jake Palumbo - even featured on the reviewed disc as a gu(e)st rhymer - and label prospect C-Zar Van Gogh comes to claim a healthy dose of your hip hop awareness via a 59 minutes Epic that promises authentic dirty fuzziness and exigent complementary instrumentalization. Read on to know more about C-Zar's intentions and about a hip hop arsenal that dares to be unrelentingly positivistic at heart.

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