Despite the band's screwball titling, this closing track to their 2013 release Bad History Month reeks of existential, universal agony. The song opens with warm synthetic distortion and a meandering guitar, gradually transforming its single note melodies into chords....
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Under the Tide: Classixx
Spotify is a great tool to discover music. Enter a musician's name, search related artists, and within seconds you find yourself grooving to new beats. That was what happened when one fine day at work, when I was searching for something fresh with a good tempo for a...
Beck ÛÒ Morning Phase (Capitol)
Get crazy melancholy with the cheez whiz Much of the advance press for Beck's first album in six years, Morning Phase, has compared the record to his 2002 masterpiece, Sea Change. Sure enough, as soon as the orchestral introduction “Cycle” segues into “Morning,”...
Mark McGuire – Along the Way (Dead Oceans)
Making new age cool again Though proliferation of 80's everything currently pervades a fair amount of music today, it's not very often we see an artist openly embrace the styling's of the often-mocked genre of new age, yet that is exactly what Mark McGuire, former...
Natural Child – Dancin’ with Wolves (Burger)
Boozy, twangy garage-rock Natural Child have always been loudly, lovingly, and very deliberately untamed, fully embracing their country-rocking, beer chugging, and fun loving tendencies. Though their latest effort, Dancin' with Wolves, may be slightly better produced...
Lo-Fang ÛÒ Blue Film (4AD)
A multi-instrumental conceptual storytelling experience Blue Film is an album that should be taken in as a whole. Los Angeles-based singer songwriter, Matthew Hemerlein, under the name Lo-Fang, has took his life experiences and translated them into an album filled...
Cherry Glazerr ÛÒ Haxel Princess (Burger)
An enjoyable, if not remarkable, half-hour of lo-fi pop On Haxel Princess, Cherry Glazerr check off all the points seemingly required for modern lo-fi Californian pop acts. They've got the sweet female vocals, lyrics that alternate between self-aware and hilarious...
Tomas Barfod – Pulsing EP (Secretly Canadian)
Simple yet infectious dance tracks Thomas Barfod has been making sleek electronic music in one group or another for years now, developing a proficient, straightforward style that placed heavy emphasis on solid vocal hooks and dance-till-you-die beats, a style Tomas...
Mas Ysa – Worth EP (Downtown)
Capital Punishment: Never Forget Throughout the course of Mas Ysa's debut EP, Thomas Arsenault tries just about everything that could ever be considered under the broad moniker of “synth-popÛ. Despite Mas Ysa's penchant for variation, he's able to maintain a...
Eden Fine Day ÛÒ Things Get Better (Team Clermont)
Dee Dee Penny meets country-pop. In the opening track, Eden Fine Day sounds like just another ordinary indie pop, female-fronted band; exuding a very similar style to Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, La Sera (etc.) By incorporating a banjo, and making the twangy vocals...