A conceptual and consistent presentation of deep-running artistry. What better way to spend your remaining time than to create from the depths of the soul and without a single restraint or concern outside of what needs to be expressed?
Music
Color and Contrast is a really strong collection of rock tracks, making for a playlist that feels something like a greatest hits album. There’s a striking sense of identity and confidence to Underwood’s delivery, and his songwriting is easily captivating and often familiar enough that the songs feel like slept on classics.
A short collection of covers such as this really reinforces the fact that Andrew Farstar is easily the right choice for anyone looking for a singer with a genuine and deep-running passion for performance and music; regardless of genre or era or style.
Showcasing a quickly entrancing melody, and an underlying concept that sees the artist get deep and personal about love and perspectives within relationships, heartbreaks (& heartaches) offers up a journey through precisely the ups and downs implied by the title.
Ease My PAiN in full is an album with plenty of personality and a uniquely expressive approach to modern hip hop on the whole. An extended introduction to an interesting and consistently honest, open artist.
Former US Marine Jayq the Legend offers up a summer classic with this fine fusion of pop, hip hop and alternative dance-hall rhythms.
Liu Kang undoubtedly sees Mayer at the top of his game. The track emerges as an alternative anthem, a go-to that rains down with uplifting beauty & melodies that entrance. At the same time, there’s a consistent sense of intention to the song, lyrically & indeed in the passion you can hear throughout the vocals.
Considering the range of notably simpler hip hop releases that have made waves online in recent years, there’s no reason at all that a number of tracks from the FLiGHT RiSK EP couldn’t have an immense effect once enough people get privy to it.
UK band Senses Reeling are set to release their full-length album Time’s Still Now on June 14th. It’s a project that showcases a fairly unique approach to pop-rock, often leading with an almost acoustic backbone, spacious soundscapes, and increasingly impressive songwriting.
Marc Ambrosia’s songwriting style and indeed his vocal tone and delivery, all lean in a decidedly honest and endearing, emotional direction. Nowhere do these qualities shine more brightly than throughout the album Unleashed.
Richard Schroder’s latest release feels like far more of a pop hit than anything purely country – not that either direction is preferable, there’s just a notably accessible and quickly engaging, memorable aura to this song, making it an easy one to relate to and enjoy.
Inanna brings back a decidedly retro electro-pop sound with this latest and debut single. Initially channeling elements of Bjork and Madonna alike, Nefertiti XXI soon goes on to become something of its own entirely.