Author Archives: Michael Eades

Take a look at a sample of the lyrics from this Pornography track: these are my failures I do not want to get better I want to be so much worse I don’t look forward I only look back I am not present If you didn’t guess, the music behind those words is huge booming […]

Labeling yourself as Folk or Americana can be a tricky genre to pull off – as you run the risk of hurdling yourself off a cliff of pretentiousness and shallow performances. Damned Rivers manage to avoid the pitfalls and stay on the enjoyable side by embracing their slightly off kilter vocals. This kind of disaster […]

The (largely) instrumental, electronic explorations of BRLY are not something you encounter very often in the Nashville music scene. There’s hints of Prefuse73 influence – infusing hip-hop style beats and more chilled out electronica. In just a quick four tracks, it covers a lot of ground. 

Bet you haven’t checked out the offerings of Smyrna too often have you? Well, Pumpkinseed is bringing some riff-y rock with impassioned vocals to a beer bar near you. There’s plenty of promise in these demos and I hope to hear more fully fleshed out tunes from these guys.

I’m not sure I’m quite eloquent enough to give the latest from Jupiter Is My Hard Drive a proper review. The album blends a number of genres and styles into an enjoyable package that starts off with a dark, foreboding vibe and ends up somewhere rather optimistic.  The influences range from The Cure and Depeche […]

Album art goes a long way when you’re competing with, literally, thousands of other things to listen to. The doodled ghost in a sea of pink that adorns this single from Phoul is an excellent representation of the lo-fi bedroom pop within. 

A preview track from Promised Land Sound’s forthcoming full-length For Use and Delight. A damn fine track echo’ing the best of the 70′s era languid rockers or, if you’re feeling more contemporary, something akin to Dr. Dog. Very much looking forward to more of this.

There’s something about You Are A Hologram that brings the works of The Helio Sequence or Rogue Wave to mind. Not directly mind you but an essence of similar vocal styles and upbeat rising songs with a sharp melancholy edge. The Reprise version of “All The Same” is ready for the final dramatic scene of an […]

I’m a bit baffled by how I haven’t mentioned this before now but The Whole Fantastic World, an early 2000′s Nashville staple, recently posted a bunch of unreleased demos on their Bandcamp that I’m amazing were unreleased. I’m not even sure more work could be done with these songs. It’s a shame they weren’t released […]