They’re back with a bang – slick grooves and funky basslines, soulful vocals. Lion Drome remain unpredictable and entertaining, as King Of The Club pours through with a totally unique creative core.
Music
Nashaat Salman achieves a fine balance between creative freedom and familiarity, with the recognisable threads and sheer musical excitement, even brilliance, of Sonatina For Lena.
Old-school RnB vibes bring a pop-fusion anthem akin to the days of Destiny’s Child. Wizherd changes lanes intensely this season, for the catchy groove and snappy vocal confidence of Vroom.
Live acoustic Christian music blends organic Cajon and keys for a catchy, upbeat and honest ode to Faith. E.Art.h are a unique and genuine musical duo, whose single Blessed Be The Man is both memorable and refreshingly real.
Having grown up in Jersey City, Juan Marcos Nieves – known to the scene as ROCKY – notes an eclectic background, immersed in music since just twelve years old. His passions for dancing and rapping alike led him towards an artistic identity that’s unquestionable, and as such, his original music reaches tens of thousands of listeners every month.
It’s a huge and crucial conclusion, and musically quite impeccable – rightfully drawing thousands of streams already in its short time online. This personification of the damage and weight of rage is powerful, original, and perfectly framed for impact. Raging Depths is a focused artistic project, and album two is everything listeners will hope for and more.
Self-described as ‘another unstable depressed artist’, the songwriting and voice of Afro Dope in topic and tone rings loudly as authentic and impassioned. The performance style is playful but also grounded by its own emotional integrity, and this stand tall throughout his colourful, unpredictable, and fast-growing indie catalogue.
His latest single Written In The Stars is an impassioned, catchy and heartfelt soul-rock single, with Bob’s iconic raspy vocals and guitar tone riding shotgun, alongside a timeless rock groove that’s impassioned and equally soulful.
While the music is easy and evocative to lose yourself within, there’s also plenty to unpack lyrically throughout 2007. Consider Darkest Patches, a catchy jam that seems to understand and connect with you as you navigate the darkness of modern life, but the closer you look, the more insight, the sharper the wordplay, and the more revealing the sentiments. Noah $tout does this with every track, an easy listen on the surface, but so much more depth and detail as you revisit, and that’s the gift and realness of the sound.
Next we get a raspy and snappy vocal lead, short lines of poetic images, further encapsulating the story and location of our Dry River experience. Then the melody rises, the energy shifts, things are catchier, more satisfying in their resolve, and the lyrics pierce through with inescapable suffering and pain; most notably, ‘a trail of genocide’ rings out and lingers in the space.
There’s an exotic vocal flavour, alongside these sci-fi soundwaves and notes, and this creates a sense of rising enchantment that only grows stronger throughout the near-fourteen-minute journey. The song features a mutated version of the riff from Ghost Rider, by Suicide, and is a welcomed alternative to the more traditionally structured electronic tracks that seem so simple and rather predictable these days.
From a fierce wall of nostalgic grunge distortion, to spacious and characterful, snappy and melodic vocal verses, After Halloween is quick to assert a sense of songwriting prowess and creative charm, with the uniquely lyrical and impactful alternative anthem of Please Don’t Shake My Hand.