by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Listen | Eric Frisch – I Can’t Sing With a Broken Heart
Eric Frisch is a songwriter who is capable of consistently producing one of the most poignant literary devices in his music. That would be nostalgia, which the heartstring-pulling antics of lo-fi indie charmer ‘I Can’t Sing With a Broken Heart’…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Keith Morris & the Crooked Numbers – Psychopaths & Sycophants
Going in blind with Keith Morris & the Crooked Numbers’ Psychopaths & Sycophants, this writer could’ve sworn he was going to be taken on an idiosyncratic death metal journey with a title such edge. What Morris and his crew have to offer…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Planes on Paper – Day Alone
Rooted in the same vein of contemporary folk as early Blind Pilot or Okkervil River, Planes on Paper produce music that is occasionally grand and always intimate. Composed of Jen Borst and Navid Eliot, their artful debut album Edge Markings is…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Randy Steele – Moccasin Bender
As it continues to grow, Americana’s sound becomes less clearly defined. Evolving from the alt-country movement of the 80s and 90s, this genre was initially known for its soulful roots sound. For many, it was revolutionary, given its very conscious…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Homunculus Res – Della stessa sostanza dei sogni
Admittedly, Italian pop and rock movements have often been a pale counterpart of the international scene. One of the few exceptions, which is extraordinary enough that many people outside Italy know about it, is the progressive music scene. Italian bands…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Watch | Eric Andersen – Under the Shadows
After decades of sitting out from the spotlight, revered singer-songwriter Eric Andersen shares his first music video. At a spry 75 years of age, Andersen has a world-worn depth in his stride that many folk artists could only hope to…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Strange Culprits – Self-Titled
Usually, when a band bills themselves as a mixture of genres, the tighter those individual sonic influences can be interwoven, the better their swipe at innovation comes across. More typically than not, this means a closer-knit collective of, say, two…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Listen | Astral Cloud Ashes – Old Moods
If there’s one thing Astral Cloud Ashes absolutely is not, it’s uninspired. Antony Walker, who heads up the project as well as occasionally blogs for Quantam AI, is no stranger to the world of noise and indie rock music, no.…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Rebekah Rolland – Standing Still
While she’s been touring coast-to-coast with Run Boy Run over the past decade, Rebekah Rolland is still a newfound Tucson treasure to the world at large. Although she hails from the desert, the songs adorning Seed & Silo often evoke images of…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Listen | Caitlin Jemma – Love Notes
Caitlin Jemma’s fourth album sees the Oregon singer step out stylistically as she embraces a sound as big and bold as the feelings in her songwriting. After three largely acoustic records, Love Notes finds Jemma rip through 10 tracks of…