Evolution of the Groove - Miracle track rewview

Year : 2018
Genre :Funk Rock
Origin : United States
Where to check it out: > - here - <

This review starts off with an informative snippet about the origins of the band, taken directly from the official SoundCloud of the ensemble.

Funk, rock, R&B, Hip-hop, soul, gospel, jazz: These are the elements that have molded and shaped the core sound, as well as, the overall experience that is Evolution of The Groove. Originally founded in 2010 by Steven Cunningham and Chris Sclafani, the band focused on combining the elements of each member’s background to create a new and unique sound that would emphasize the preservation of the ever lasting “Evolution” and “Groove” that is music, which is demonstrated by their brand new sound with everything from high energy, in-your-face jams, to soothing meaningful beats, featuring emotional lyrics as well as invigorating instrumentals.

"Miracle" is an excellent example of straight-to-the-point funk-pulsation, heightened by a rock heft, yet tamed with firm hands amidst the fields of slick melodic sensuality, courtesy of a wise-, yet soberly traditional choice of harmonics. One area in which the song immediately emerges to distinguish itself from the fray, is the excellent vocal performance of the female lead, periodically supported by a decently performed male counterpart, a sound/narration that is fortunately wise enough as to not attempt to challenge the female principle, it instead chooses to submit to it, thereby showcasing the former in its optimal sonic volumetrics. 

A stone traditional, yet very efficient verse is traded for a surprisingly effective chorus structure, in which the band declares complete freedom to express the best inventions they have happened to sculpt into audible stimulus, and this climax certainly does not disappoint, supplying enough interest to keep the keenest of ears occupied. One relative hindrance is, that once the particularly interesting chorus reaches its conclusion, the re-occurring verse structure can't help but reveal its less challenging appeals. Yet, one can be sure that the chorus will re-surface, and the excitement factor regarding this anticipation won't really dissipate into nothingness during the entirety of the track.

"Miracle" is doubtless a quite solid effort, and one has a hunch that this ensemble has all the chance in the world to open up a hatch or two directly into Funk-Sezame in the future, a happenstance likely to be realized as soon as they decide to invite a little bit more experimental spirit into their craft, of which they already exercise a solid command and a sober understanding.

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Richard Schroder - Wildest Dreams track review

Year : 2018
Genre : Country
Origin : United States
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Listening to Richard Schroeder's Wildest Dreams makes one realize that this highly talented artist has surely must have forgotten more about country than one is likely to ever know about it. The track is an all-heft-out-, sizzling, boomy declaration of robust, major country-power, and the best thing about this effort is how it manages to come up with lyrical content that literally invites you to re-adjust your position regarding what you thought to be true about the world, and you in it, AND, naturally: your wildest dreams in it.

Hearing a country singer so efficiently challenging you to ponder if your wildest dreams indeed are wild enough, (thus, worthy to have enough) is the most you could hope for from this genre-, nevertheless, a rock solid variation on this solemn agenda. With extremely well-researched production values that encompass you into a lush torment of sound, and high quality performances, Wildest Dreams proudly reigns in the intriguing intersection where the content and genre is definitely country, yet, the flags of rock already are seen on the horizon.

Seldom-, yet super-pleasant are the times when the reviewer has no other option than to express a maximal level of enthusiasm towards an artist, and the precedent now indeed is such, as this doubtless is a declaration that punches two balls home in a single swing, even though both are coming in with 360 miles per second. An immediate recommendation.

Where to check the song out:
Richard Schroder's Soundcloud

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Cranky George - Misery Road track review

Year : 2016
Genre : Soft Folk Rock, Country
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
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Misery Road is an entry from the upcoming longplay of LA based folk rock/country ensemble, Cranky George. This page has a lot of good info on the history of the group, while this review will concentrate on the single, as an indicator of what possibly you could expect from the foreseeable future, "debuting" on the 18th of November - simultaneously with the new Metallica double release. This spirit at dormant competition is something one must reckon with an intact poker face. Let's dive into the song!

Misery Road eloquently and inventively worships oldschool songcraft traditions with top tier production values, these latter meticulously balanced/arranged in at attempt to court said traditions with maximum-, though well orchestrated efficiency.

The self-reflective, ironically introverted, placid initial pacing conveys the classic country setting of parking at a fireplace in the company of a bourbon, a dead relative and a banjo - banjo not included, do you happen to have a lighter? -, yet, this trusty pulsation (pun intended) is armed with the intention to dress into moods and colors of hefty, brisk intensity.

At a given dramatic point in the song, by which you falsely think that everything has happened already, and grandpa is no risk to the society OR to your psyche as the top dog of this music-universe, the band commands the intensity up against the roof, as to let the soul reach beyond the skies, nevertheless remaining faithful to the bulk of the exhibited musical character. Clean, competent, all-voice-out lead singing is supported by a country ethos that reveals grace and elegance with sufficient power to display the heart of country classicism.

The result is an ironic, hilarious display of deliberately larger-than-life comic book country done in a truly badass, ballsy fashion. This feat could not have been pulled off without a decent frontman-, nor without sophisticated taste and competence on/at how exactly command the sounds to make them more intense, but keeping them from messing with the structure. The track is a truly pleasant experience to listen to, as it does not satisfy with merely existing, instead, it IS a successful musical metaphor FOR the flow of existence itself. An immediate recommendation for all music lovers, and don't forget, it is only a week's time until the LP debuts.

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REP - Street Walkers track review

Year : 2016
Genre : Hip Hop, Christian Hip Hop
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Where to chech the song out: > -  here - <

REP is back not with a vengeance, but, with a fresh review request concentrating on another track of the Co-Laborations LP.

Street Walkers is an attentively sculpted, massively mid-tempo hip hop track, pinpointing lurking danger and ambiguous remnants of hopes at every corner. The central musical attraction of the song is a nice pairment of a highly retroid slot-machine riff, - the melody itself has a luciferian Last Ninja vibe - and this motive is quick to demand for itself gargantuan support by a duo of mobsters in the form of a powerful, sneaky bass, and a clever drum passage that admires the musculature of said bass, inventively pinpointing the key points in its relentless anatomy.

The rapping is good, too, as REP knows that it is best if he is "just" a REPorter, staying away from the framing of brisk morality. Instead, he is revealing percepts and reocurring thoughts/tendencies that are amidst the pertinent components of the observed daily life of a prostitute, as you do not have to be one to know one - the lyrics reflect the position of a man who feels empathy for the prostitute, yet is in the process of seeking to decide whether the woman would prefer to be "saved" from this lifestyle at all.

What I like about this track, is how the mood of the music reflects this timeless concealed dilemma, conveying the percept that everything you think about the situation, might be utterly wrong - nevertheless both the music and the prostitute invites you to come and find out.

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REP - Escape Room track review

Year : 2016
Genre : Hip Hop, Christian Hip Hop, Soul
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
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Escape Room is an entry found on the latest longplay delivered by Virginia-based hip hop artist REP. Your host is not at all reluctant to express a clear and unconditional devotion towards Jesus, and Escape Room is one of those songs that emerge successful at painting elegant allegories about the state a soul MIGHT find itself in, if subjected to existence without a palpable pointer to grasp unto. The Escape Room, of course, is your body, in this metaphor. But let's not spoil the challenge and the fun of finding the key to it.

The music is quite interesting, and here is why: the bulk of the piece is an almost fragile-, though well researched sonic environment, composed mainly of bass lines that paint out the harmonic domain with inventive strokes of sounds flirting with the timing, and REP seems and sounds to be almost conscious to refrain from the utilization of such casual super-orhodoxies like a snare drum, hi-hats, or a crash cymbal. The song simply evades these elements, and, hilariously, you spend the whole time listening if they will ever show up - and there is no void to be felt upon realizing that they were NOT invited this time.

The song manages to capture a floaty feeling, and finds efficient methods at maximizing its potential with a strictly limited set of instruments and sounds utilized. The piece is a collab, by the way, and the talented singer Mikaela Juday brings you clear, soulful lead singing that is precise and brisk: there is zero trace of autotune.The chorus is awesome in character, and Mikaela knows this, too - but the music fails to realize in the background that SOME elements are yet to be brought to the table to court the lead singer as she declares the main gravitational pull of the entry. Mikaela bursts into full bloom mode in the chorus, but the music fails to recognize it. A pity.

Luckily, REP steps in to deliver a decent block of well-tempoed rapping without offending anyone. A talented artist with true musical vision, and a particularly strong sense of how to validate limitation in the context of diversity of sound. Sometimes less is more. And sometimes it is not.

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REP - Escape Room

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AL-X - Fearless track review

Year : 2016
Genre : Dance Pop
Origin : United States
Official site: > here <

LA based AL-X is an upcoming dance composer/producer with a keen interest in delivering massively melodic dance music along exigent pop sensibilities, purposefully revealing the most flirtatious traditions of the style.

With rhetorics clearly rooted in the school of thought that regards easily approachable, elegantly simplistic progressions much more paramount than experimentive tendencies, the single "Fearless" could be a picture perfect statement of top-form Madonna, as the somber, contemplative moods inherent to said artist, are displayed abundantly in this 3 minute affair.

Never risking maximum efficiency with taking detours that are simply not worth winking towards in this genre, the track knows what it wants to do, and pulls it off eloquently. The melodic arch in the verse is sufficiently indicative that you are about to witness a woman's soul burts into a sonic declaration of - well - b(l)oom (and definitely not doom) - soon, while the chorus backs these promises up with a skillfully researched route taken along the full surface of the suggested structure, now revealed with optimum power.

Doubtless a well sculpted melodic dance track, with a rather abrupt, but logical end to it - so it is not hard to find the will to revisit the piece: a safe recommendation for any and all fans of the style.

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Genre:pop/electro/dance 

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Red is the New Black track review

Year : 2016
Genre : Psychedelic Rock with a Doom tint
Origin : United States

"Red is the New Black" is a particularly strong, invasive psychedelic track with a definitive doom tint to it. A somber, massive declaration that has come to me through a review order placed with no additional information attached. "Red is the New Black", and that is that, no band name, no nothing, review it please.

The music itself is situated at the middle of an optimum intersection where the timeless rules - hah - of psychedelia and current production standards meet. The hefty, supra-old school intro guitar jumps you from the speakers like Magilla Gorilla on an otherwisely desolated island, and the ensuing sonic anatomy quickly reveals a type of devotion rendered directly unto the monolithic altars of ironically sly and sinister moods and sentiments, revolving primarily around money. Oh well, money does not make you happy, but it won't make you unhappy, either.

The track bravely explores brisk avenues along bluesy building blocks, while its constant focus/intention remains to ritually kamikaze into the bowels of good old fashioned blight, a dark, dangerous and deliberately heartless territory, which is revealed with picture perfect accuracy through exquisite chord choices and tempo alterations. During these segments, the incomprehensibly uplifting-, nihillistic indifference of Dark Souls - yes, the video game - emerges, symbolic of the somber-, yet imperturbably unfuckwithable attitude that lurks beneath the music as a fueling force.

One can tell that a whole lot of love has been given during the making of this track, as the whole structure is an excellently varied expression of a well-placed curiosity cultivated towards the most delicious components of its very own anatomy. The song eloquently showcases the timeless nature of doom-tinted psychedelia, and you want it.

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Astronauts of Antiquity - Future Back track review

Year : 2016
Genre : Dance / Melodic Pop
Origin : United States
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"Future Back" is a fresh single by upcoming dance/melodic pop wizards "Astronauts of Antiquity". Composed by three key individuals, the ensemble's premiere focus is to sculpt out intoxicating, yet easily approachable soundbeds, flattered even further by a brand of lead vocals that are openly playful and tender, yet pack a punch friendly enough as to prevent the end result from falling to the other side of the horse in the expression process.

The song chooses to unfold rather super-efficiently, revealing a pleasant disco-pulsation with a whole lot of spots to park inventive-, yet not too obtruse ornaments in. The main attraction emerges as the optimum combo formed out of the imaginatively sentimentalist lyrics, supported by a type of vocal delivery that opens up quite comfortable interpretational fields to regard said/sung sentiments with both musical gratitude, and a poker face kept intact. Lead singer India does not mind releasing the timeless inner child, and the result is quite interesting, because his rigor at staying in tune is super-relentless, and even the relatively rampant pitch correction does a superb service to the track. Yes, such precedent is possible.

The music - minus vocals - is good in its own right, too, as it does not commit the mistake of reeking rigid remnants of over-production, managing to greet receptors as something that feels almost casual, while maintaining an almost exploitatve urge to progress invasively within the boundaries of the selected framework. The single is a definite success as a stimulator of interest in the trio's full lenght delivery, due to be unleashed on consensus in October.

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Blue Moon Harem - My Front Door track review

The song under scrutiny is quick to showcase a set of tasteful musical influences that are pulled and brought together to form a truly cohesive-, top tier rock song with no sub-optimal assets to conceal. The singing and the mastering are both supra-ballsy and consequently immaculate, the guitars are warm, yet they come to your house with bad enough intentions to make it impossible to not give a damn about their inventive machinactions. An immediately discernible structure is observable, that which is being led and skillfully courted through a series of logical-, and pleasant climatic/narrative conlcusions with due heft and rigor maintaned throughout the anatomic segments of the entire build. A fascination cultivated towards the most morose musical tints of "pure" rock is relentlessly kept around as the narrative opens up about the key - pun intended - aspects of the imminent romantic relationship the song itself is centered around. The best moments of Stone Sour comes through with irrefutable convince power. The inherent soul-story that is being told through glanced emotions, peaking sensations and expressed intentions pertinent to the desiring of intimacy, are very easy to relate to, inviting the attentive listener to soak some ears into the stimulus on yet another immediate occasion. The shapes of intensity with which the material communicates, is of exceptionally high quality and versatility herein, as the band not only manages to respect and honor the fields of rock, but they pretty much demand the holy whole and THEN some more of it. The piece boils with undeniable/insatiable power when successfully reaching its targeted peak values, and the excellent lead singer truly deserves credit for not being crushed under the mere sonic weight, instead, he emerges on top, "merely" riding the elegantly raging audio mass. In case your conjecture needs further reinforcement, then let me assure you that this is a band you want to keep some eyes and ears on, and one can only hope that they have plans to deliver a full fledged output composed of various tracks.


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A & L - Onto the Next Heart review

Track reviewed:
Onto the Next Heart

Release date:
2015

Group Responsible:
A & L

URL to check the track out at:
https://soundcloud.com/buzzrecords-1/next-heart

This review starts out with the official press release of the reviewed track. So be prepared, as consensus reality - which is courted by subjectivity - might even be better-, OR slightly/moderately/vastly altered compared to what the press release states. 

With the overwhelming positive response from their debut release, A&L is back with a new tune. Onto the Next Heart is an upbeat, pop/rock song with catchy hooks and killer guitar riffs and an in-your-face vocal that you will find yourself singing along with. With a vocal style that sounds like The Pretty Reckless meets P!nk, Lana delivers a vocal performance that demands your attention.

A&L is a new act made up of two seasoned industry professionals: Anthony Casuccio and Lana Marie. Anthony is a 20 year music veteran whose production work has been nominated for three Grammy awards, been featured in major music publications and topped the music charts. Lana is an award winning vocalist who has been a long-time force on the WNY music scene and voice to many jingles on radio and television.

Here is my personal review of the track:

The song sounds to me as an authentically collaborative-, yet (in this case: optimally) submissive declaration fueled by an unrelenting urge to find common ground between two traditional fields of popular rhetorics. The harmonic/melodic structure is both pop top to bottom, yet polite to the point from which on you start to have religious visions of Karate Kid and Tony Mon.TAna, and, if this combination does not excite you, then I do not know what to tell you. Experts claim that if you remember the '80s, you weren't even there, anyway.

Among the most relevant optimum traits of the track, the fact how little - if any - it concerns itself with its hyper-polite nature, - it is a bombastic love song from the '80s, at heart  - is truly remarkable. And here is why: though the delivery has both precise songcraft and competent harmonic mastery to support its skillfully constrained musical fascinations, the fact that you are able to hear a '80s disco song orchestrated to-, AND resonated by a present day studio environment, is a doubtless relevant experience that manages to coat itself into a timeless variant of mere charm. I love how the song DARES to be a '80s tribute song without even considering the alleged obligation to feel embarrassed in the process, instead, showcasing its love for the rendered styles with crisp, muscular production values.

The most important thing I'm picking up on this dancefloor-flanker romance-provocer Pia Zadora exclamation mark, is this: the people who were involved in the creation of the track, were having fun all the way throughout its inception and realization, while the form of the song itself is highly/naturally indicative of this mere agenda, of "just let's have fun", and I find nothing wrong with this stance. If you give AT LEAST THIS to me, then you can't commit sins against music that I could not forget with ease tomorrow. All in all, a competent song that manages to find an implausible-, yet OH!, so logical common ground between stone-traditional popism and pink spandex glam metal amourism. And, if you don't like it, then you should seriously admit that your main problem with it is that the things described in the track are happening to someone else, and not to you.

URL to check the track out at:
https://soundcloud.com/buzzrecords-1/next-heart

Where to purchase reviewed contribution:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/onto-next-heart-feat.-anthony/id964835777


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Junior Turner - Better Day feat. Jess Wood track review

Year : 2013
Genre : Pop
Label : Independent
Origin : United Kingdom
Official site : - > here - <

This track review starts out with the artist's official biography information.

In 2010 Junior Turner entered a competition to release a national single for BBC Children in Need. He went on to win the competition out of 110,000 applicants to release a single for "BBC Children in Need". In Oct 2010 he shot to national fame when he recorded and released a cover version of the world famous "The Impossible Dream"


Whilst promoting his BBC single he had handed out demo recordings including a self penned track called "Say Goodbye". In due course he received a phone call from war veteran's charity "Help for Heroes" co founder Bryn Parry asking if they could use this song for their charity. In April 2011 Junior Turner released Say Goodbye in support of Help for Heroes. This went on to sell over 300,000 copies worldwide. 


In 2012 he recorded his first ever official 1radio UK newcomers chart number 1 single with 'Loveblind featuring Jess Wood'. He then went on to follow that up with a further 2 1radio number 1 singles with 'Sweet Love' & a christmas 2012 number 1 with 'Hurt featuring Robbie Williams guitarist Neil Taylor'.  In November 2012 he released his eagerly anticipated 'critically acclaimed' debut album 'Under Scrutiny' He has worked with some of the UK and worlds finest musicians and producers for who he is held in high regard with. His future certainly looks prosperous to say the least. 
He also has nearly 500,000 views on his youtube channel www.youtube.com/junior271102

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Miss Myi - All Eyes On Us single review

Year : 2012
Genre : Pop Dance Electronic
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Noise Shaft finally has the rabid opportunity to deliver its first single track review, and now it is official that it is none other than the brisk, bouncy debut delivery of Miss Myi, a Dancefloor Diva coming to make your body move in intentionally rhythmic fashion to her sonic declaration All Eyes On Us. My mission is relatively simple herein, as the song wholeheartedly relies on a four chord pop progression that packs the same capacity to carry the charisma of this style from the start line to the finish as it did from the very beginnings of risk free dancefloor entertainment. In other words, the flow of things is not a flow at all, it instead conveys the bouncy pop feel that you can safely showcase the dance moves you are comfortable with to, and that is that for an agenda, which is highly acceptable. Consider : you are armed with a beer and your most silly smile. Read on to find out more about this single.


What I like about this track is its propensity to wage a tender war on your receptors with a set of intentionally bloated-, ridiculously pink pop synths that convey the feeling of gargantuan djent guitars, only, on the opposite extreme of the imaginary sonic-rhetorics spectrum. As suggested, the song does not exhibit any urge to deviate from the four chords pop progression that equates to its relentless core, yet soberly limited ornaments are present to outline the anatomy and charisma of this simplistic, but elegant-efficient gravity well.

While the music is progressing, Miss Myi takes the opportunity to share her extroverted inner sentiments about the beauties and joys of receiving profound public attention in a dancefloor environment while occupying such a ridiculously hot body as hers is, - all this in a singing fashion - and the next logical step, not at all surprisingly, is to make a music video with hot chicks performing hot dance moves. Despite her young age, Miss Myi already has an impressive resume as a professional dancer, and this necessitates the video even more, I feel. You can try going wrong with hot chicks dancing to the camera, but you won't succeed. That stuff always sells, with or without music. Check out Miss Myi's All Eyes On Us single right here.

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