Author Archives: Michael Eades

Chrome Pony released Past Lives back in 2016 and spent the past three years playing out, writing a bunch of new songs and working through recording false starts. Fortunately, they found themselves at Battle Tapes and were able to put down an entire record, set for release sometime in 2019. The first fruit of that […]

There’s something undeniably chaotic about the new Soft Robot video for “Happiness” (taken from Nothingness in Vogue). Three paper masked characters perform choreography along with the song lyrics while glitched out effects, datamoshing and general visual cacophony plays out over the course of nearly 4 minutes. Oddly enough, it’s a captivating experience, not an unsettling […]

CELLS by Baby Breath God bless Bandcamp Discovery. Finding gems like this new track from Murfreesboro artist Baby Breath is a treat that’s difficult to articulate. “CELLS” is a fascinating mixture of driven, thick, dirty, electronic music paired with detached, disturbingly calm, vocals. The juxtaposition between the two elements is captivating and immediately evokes imagery […]

In their short time, Z has established themselves as a rather limber and diverse stylistic undertaking. Their last album, BarbedWire.org, is a collection of relatively upbeat pop songs with a somewhat ominous and frantic tone that reveals itself throughout the course of the record. MAGNUFEEK was an onslaught of four-on-the-floor beats and downright scary presentation; […]

The Anchor Thieves continue to explore new styles through consistent themes. It looks good on them.

You may have caught the premiere over on The Cream already but Scale Model recently released a new single entitled “Expectations” that is now streaming on all the things. The band has always churned out enjoyable dance-y, keyboard driven, electro-pop songs but “Expectations” amps things up by a considerable factor. The production is noticeably shinier […]

New Rollum Haas solo endeavor features krautrock sensibilities and plenty of face punching.