Twenty seconds. That's how long it takes for John Mills' saxophone to wrap its tentacles around album opener "Blinded By The Sun". This is a common theme throughout the record. Giulia Millanta's sixth solo recording Conversation With a Ghost is peppered with little...
You've got to hand it to Mayday Parade, they are nothing if not resilient. With a core sound and lyrical themes that come straight from emo's mid 00s zenith, Mayday Parade have consistently risen above the usual One Tree Hill also rans, by consistently maintaining a...
Fusing east and west in alternative electro quirkiness, Optivion first came to our ears' attention back in 2015 with Free Unicorn. Drawing influences from, well, all over the place, Alex (lead vocalist, percussion, harmonica, guitar) and Rie (backing vocalist) have...
Optivion is a duo consisting of Alex (lead vocalist, percussion, harmonica, guitar) and Rie (backing vocalist). Alex is from Atlanta, Georgia and Rie is from Japan. They met in Tokyo and released an album called Free Unicorn in February 2015. The band is now getting...
Describing her music as 'original indie-folk music to soothe the heart and soul', Catherine Scholz started out as a singer-songwriter by setting her favourite poems to music, which is intriguing. What's not to love about poetry? Especially Maya Angelou's work, but...
With her smoky-soulful voice and hypnotic, jazz-infused arrangements, Sophie Coran's "All That Matters" is a song of obsession...with a twist. The twist? It's not about love nor any of the usual subjects that haunt good music. No, it actually tells a story of the...
Any brand-new label would be excited by their first release. Newbies Inherent Sounds have every right to be proud to kick off their roster with Sadness Is A Gesture from APHRA, the electropop alter-ego of Philadelphia’s Rebecca Waychunas. With unexpected depth to her...
Sometimes music arrives on the scene that defies categorisation. Quasarmoto from The Bud Collins Trio is such an offering. Sounding throughout as though the vocals have been mixed to the wrong track, this shouldn't work. Yet strangely...deliciously...weirdly...it...
