Category: Track Review

ElliS-D gets fretful and fearful on new fuzzed out single “Shakedown”

With trademark Goth atmospherics and anxiety-ridden jitters, ELLiS·D returns with a fearful and fretful single in “Shakedown.” The fuzzed-up white noise and disassociated-sounding vocals pile on layers of bewildered overthinking, and paranoia to create the expected...

Westside Cowboy meld country, rock and lo-fi power pop on new single “I’ve Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)”

Opening with an acerbic and zestful declaration brand new four-piece Westside Cowboy from Manchester, England possess a youthful zeal and energy that accompanies their penchant for magpie musical cherry-picking on their label debut single, “I’ve Never...

M(h)aol share resplendent new single “Snare”

Freshly signed to Merge Records and now playing as a three-piece Irish intersectional feminists M(h)aol return to the pop rock fray with a gloriously, typically spikey sounding “Snare.” The single wryly looks at the gendering of the drumkit...

Hotgirl announce arrival with blistering single ‘In Your Head’

Besides playing some raucous live shows and festival dates, Hotgirl has been hunkered in the studio recently, escaping the confines of lead vocalist Ashley Abbedeen‘s previously DIY bedroom project. They have established themselves as a quartet, catching...