The Brook & The Bluff “Pastels” Strays from Indie Territory
The Brook & The Bluff is an evocative name; perhaps you’d expect it to be the name of an album rather than a band, but it’s evocative all the same. It not only suggests natural splendor, but a pastoral, old-fashioned vision of that splendor, the kind you might see in a storybook illustration. Coupled with […]
Mighty Oaks: “All Things Go” & North America Tour 2020
The Berlin folk trio known as Might Oaks has a lot planned for 2020, including an album and back-to-back tours in Europe and North America. This month, they’ve been on tour with The Lumineers as a special guest on the European leg of the tour. With a series of tour dates and a new album […]
Introducing “Technicolour” by FARR
FARR has a firm grasp on crafting unique sonic blends by using forward-minded production techniques and entangling their hybrid sound with a drop of electronic soul. The fated indie-electronic duo features vocalist Romeo and producer Linden Jay, who met in May 2016. Their single, “Technicolour” is a twist on alternative pop laced with threads of […]
“Scorpio” by Emma Charles Embodies Sonic Mysticism
I’m an Aries, evidently. I was born on April 3rd, which means, if the seers and soothsayers over at astrology.com are correct, that I’m a “leader of the pack”, impulsive and blunt. Aries is a fire sign, like Leo and Sagittarius, and it’s ruled by Mars, the red planet named after the Roman god of […]
“Conspiracy of Silence” and the Puzzle of Alternative Pop
At the risk of sounding like a fake-deep music major, it’s worth talking about how to define pop, and by extension alternative pop. Pop is, broadly, whatever music is popular at a given moment, but in terms of genre, it defines catchy, mainstream-courting music with hooks and choruses and everything you’d read in a How […]
Hear Miles Horn Explain How Love Can Bring Out the Child in You
Miles Horn reflects on the current state of the world and his life in “The Child in You”. Throughout the song, he keeps bringing in how dark and gloomy the world feels lately, and I have to agree with him. Maybe it’s because as we mature, we start to understand the reality of things. Or […]
“Keep Me Safe” by talker: A Lo-Fi Scorcher
One of the things I miss most about college is the house shows we used to go to. I have a soft spot for anything that sounds like it could be at home in a sweaty basement, so with all the love in the world, I suggest to you the song “Keep Me Safe” by […]
High Tropics Hopes to See “Better Days”
High Tropics’ “Better Days” is a perfect example of my favorite type of song: upbeat music with much darker lyrics. I think the combination in itself is dark, representative of a mask that people put on to appear happy, but really there’s much more going on. Over music that sounds happy enough to dance to, […]
Join Us on a Trivial Exploration of “You Are Bad” by Laura Reznek
Before I’d even listened to the song, just reading the lyrics gave me the impression “You Are Bad” was going to be the most beautifully written song I’ve heard in a long time. I was definitely not wrong. I struggled to pick only a few quotes from the song while writing this because there’s not […]
Get Hooked on “Shout” by The Vaughns
This year, New Jersey indie rock band, The Vaughns, released their debut album, F.O.M.O., including the track “Shout”, which is everything I look for in an indie song. Their sound is lighthearted and fun, but the lyricism does more than just scratch the surface. The classic jangly indie guitars are arguably my favorite part. Right […]
