With a title like Kroger sells this wine that’s like three dollars. Yeah​.​.​. That’s what this is. you’d think you’d be getting a complete shit show of music but the this latest offering from the enigmatic Gameboi is quite the opposite. It’s a collection of laid back, dreamy, guitars intermixed with the occasional, presumably drunken, R&B style crooning.

If you listened to Volume 107 of the WOTT Music podcast you heard the track “She’s Nice” from Soft Robot‘s latest release, Holographic Wonder Boy.

You also heard me confess to knowing very little about the band, a fact that holds true with the exception of the fact that I now know that there’s an extremely well made, psychedelic, dream-y video for the song. I suggest watching it now as there’s no shortage of trippy in-camera effects, strange transitions, and visual allusions that may or may not mean anything (what’s up with that seashell?).

We are proud to announce a debut track from Cloudmouth off their forthcoming full-length, Dark Energy (due May 18th). Musically, the track layers on from the style of their previous release, Drunk On What I Am, with a deceiving core of folk instrumentation undercut by an ominous vibe building and exploding with a dramatic outpouring of cello and strings. Lyrically, the song speaks to the difficulty of maintaining a healthy mental state, ultimately dragged down by the apex of the song.

Cloudmouth has been around for four years now and really seem to be fully realizing what they do best. As with any band, you hope that the next release is better than the last and “Nice Looking Mountain” is an excellent preview into what the band is going to bring forth.

On Episode 106 of the WOTT Music podcast I pointed out that the 2012 debut album from Adam Landry, El Scorpion, had been sitting in front of me for years and had never clicked until quite recently. Lo and behold, Landry then went and released a brand new album entitled Faderisms and I vow to not sit on it for
six years to get it.

While it’s been quite some time since his previous release, Faderisms builds on the same pop sensibilities as the previous but with a bit more subdued approach. Instead of rocked out guitars we get spacey keyboards and ethereal vocals. The majority of the tracks are calm and lend themselves well to a quiet listening environment, letting yourself be enveloped by the floaty feeling it invokes. The one exception is the album closer, “Chasing Sara”, that takes on a much more upbeat and darker tone; complete with lyrics that, literally, recant the woes of wasted youth.

Hopefully there’s another Landry release around the corner, as he’s clearly capable of a wide diversity of styles while keeping things engaging. It’d be a shame for it take another six years to hear more.