Not unlike the twin plus points of ‘Origami’, the new single from Zkeletonz. On the one hand you, get the reserved, economic electronics of synthpop, albeit with a dash of Italo-house music piano plonking.
Category: Music
Track Review – Prince of Sweden, A Little Candlelight
We’ve got to admit it, we’re rather intrigued by this mysterious and – we’re guessing, unofficially appointed – member of the Swedish royal family…
EP Review: Harbor Blue – Wasted Days
Harbor Blue is a great name for the project from Graham Nickelson, a multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles… a sense of calm and glistening light… the gentle beauty of a sheltered alcove…
Track Review: Hendrix – Dispirited
We start with discordant, clashing tones before it settles down into keyboards as clear as spring water. But there’s a great moment where the song breaks down into spiraling, swirling synths…
Track Review: Ettie – Fast Cars and Airplanes
“I was really inspired by the metaphor of fast cars and airplanes to depict a love between two people which is very destructive, but not the fault of just one party,” says Ettie on her debut, Fast Cars and Airplanes
Track Review: Corniglia – A Long Forgotten Dream
The more eagle-eyed readers of these columns, or indeed observers of the alternative music scene in general, will have noticed that there’s a bit of a psych revival not so much happening as hitting its peak at the moment.
Track Review: Prima Queen – Milk Teeth
The nucleus of Prima Queen formed when Louise Macphail from Bristol met Kristin McFadden of Chicago, USA, at Metroplis studios in 2016.
Track Review: Arliston – I Have No Honour
In the band’s own words: “The title, I Have No Honour is a bit of an abstract one; it’s meant to refer to your infidelity to yourself. In this situation where you see other people and feel worthless in comparison, you don’t stay faithful to that idea of yourself that has intrinsic worth. It’s sort of internal un-faithfulness or dishonourableness.”
Track Review: Tori Cross – Midnight
The new track from Tori Cross was recorded at Parr Street studios in Liverpool, where the likes of Rhianna, Justin Bieber and Coldplay have laid down their magic previously.