Words and vocals. Any singer, songwriter, rapper, speech giver, PRESIDENT!!! worth their salt knows that both are extremely important together. Tossing them out recklessly communicates being flippant, but using them both communicates so much. Anger, strength, sadness, resignation, lack of seriousness. The power of words is all in not just what you say, what you…
Perhaps it is the revolutionary inside of me, but the thing I will always love most is when people get together for the positive good when everyone else would rather turn the other cheek. #BlackLivesMatter, the Women's March, even the LGBT is protecting in their own way. This teaches us two conflicting things: 1) unfortunately,…
You get a definite feeling for the place all of this comes from being a slow place filled with beauty and dreary sadness that's all easy to miss as it's lurking under the surface. These are the people who took the time to slow down and take it all in. Texas can be like that…
Barcelona based Mentira casts an atmospherically unique take on minimal synth/punk via stripped down electronics in the track “Eu e El” from the soon to be released 'Sacred Spells' compilation from Oakland, CA based imprint Psychic Eye. The track begins with a minimal analog drum machine crunches and blipping in 4/4, quickly exclaimed by a…
Lord of Overstock - The Early Sleep This record is an exercise for me. I have a tendency with music to guess what is going to happen next, because I’m a musician and it pleases my brain. I can’t do that with this album, and it’s a difficult habit to stop. Cordite Tracker (aka Lord…
I'm going to take a leap and call Network of death one of the most interesting electronic albums I've listened in a long time. This is a genre of which I am almost always skeptical, mostly because I never usually reviewing, so my point of view will be totally about my feelings while this piece…
