A colourful, interesting and enjoyable listen, which has hints of inspiration from indie rock and performative music, but which ultimately maintains its own vibrant sense of originality at all times.
Alt Rock
“The band name is a silly joke about my disability that my mother did when I was a teenager.”
Bruno Arredondo is an alt-rock musician, songwriter, and creative leader of NYC cult band The Dye. Clouds is a deeply introspective work, which, in my view, blends a kind of contemporary jazz vibe with something more cinematically niche and noir.
The Habit is a great song, one of the most engaging of the year, with dreamy rising vocals, unique storytelling, and a huge rock crescendo to finish. It’s one of several slowly emerging releases from The Marches.
The band move from strength to strength without a doubt, but there’s something truly captivating, relatably claustrophobic, uncertain and yet calming, about this poignant display of introspective suffocation.
Having previously graced the stages of iconic venues and events like Warped Tour, Ron Ritter (Roar Roar Nuggets) has earned his place within the long-time catalogues of rock, first picking up a guitar in the third grade and essentially refusing to put it down from there on in.
Hazy industrial rock with a catchy indie vocal distantly then intimately mixed – an immersive soundscape, showcasing the work of an artist with everything from songwriting to musicianship to production at their disposal.
Heavily juxtaposed layers and moments let emotional integrity guide freely and with a certain intoxicating fire. Candi Carpenter fuses genres as per the changing stages of these storytelling songs, with the boldly evocative new EP Reincarnation.
Really enjoyable music – a refreshing injection of creative originality amidst a style that’s nostalgic and well-grounded. After Eight let unique songwriting shine a distinct light on a timeless approach, with the meandering rock intensity and vulnerability of The Reach.
Blending hazy alt-rock guitar lines and the live crash of drums with vocals that organically meander from spoken to sung, Serag Baddar creates an immersive balance of urgency and softness, with the hypnotic fluidity and realness of Limerence.
Scizzorman blends great songwriting with unfiltered creative expression, throughout the twists and turns of his pscyhedlic-meets-glam-pop album How To Get Your Life Right With What’s Left.
Conceptually focused but musically brief, a driven encapsulation of surviving the apocalypse, striped with humour and loaded with rebellion, depth, and distinct riffs. Red Head Redemption make fine use of a limited timeframe, with the alternative rock songs of their EP Sunny With A Chance of Fallout.