Creature Comfort “All My Friends”

Posted Mon February 2, 2015

I don’t know very much about Creature Comfort or their debut album, Fox Tales, but I do know that they put together a helluva video for “All My Friends.” It’s not often you see a video shot this beautifully and that manages to tell a few tales of mysterious love, time shifting, nude cult rituals and medieval style forest explorations without being weird.

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Ole Mossy Face – Golden Egg

Posted Fri January 30, 2015

Ole Mossy Face has been doing their thing for some time now. Hell, We Own This Town gets its namesake from their song “Calls and Walls”. At their core, Ole Mossy Face is a rock band. Plenty of big riffs, lots of memorable, sing-along hooks and energy when they want it. However, they always managed to include elements of a more Southern variety – banjos, slide guitar and always a slight drawl to the vocals. 

But time has only made Ole Mossy Face better. Golden Egg seems to be their most confident record yet. They’ve embraced those southern styles and infused them with their more overt rock tendencies.  "Rhythm & Speed" is a fine example of that fusion, while “Leave Me” finds them still capable of handling a proper forelorn bit of musing.

Long album reviews can get tedious but it’s nice to see that a band that’s been at it for as long as these guys have been doing it are still able to enjoy themselves in the studio and capture that enjoyment in the studio. This record should stick around for awhile.

Andrew Combs “Nothing to Lose”

Posted Tue January 27, 2015

Great new video from Andrew Combs showcasing one of the more ballad-y tracks from his forthcoming album, All These Dreams. The video pays a nice homage to old country studio performances, an excellent companion to a heartfelt song that seem to emerged from the same era.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

False Colors – Vanishing Ink

Posted Tue January 27, 2015

Describing yourself as “futuristic skating rink music” is certainly a helluva way to start a relationship between creator and listener. False Colors manages to deliver on this promise, though not quite as cheesily as one might imagine skating rink music should sound.

The album has plenty of ethereal, floaty soundscapes and driving microbeats. You know, the stuff you’d expect at the Skating Rink of the Future.

Zobrodome – Self-Titled

Posted Wed January 21, 2015

Over the long weekend I started to make a serious effort to clean out my Tumblr Inbox – which I did not even realize was a thing. In doing so, I came across a lot of excellent submissions – the self-titled EP from Zobrodome being one of them. 

There is a LOT of manic energy here that expresses itself through a myriad of influences – your typical punk and rock and roll are present but there’s also a good bit of psych, Herb Alpert trumpet goodness, some African jazz and who knows what else. It’s certainly a mish-mash but they’re making it work. And “Zobrodome” is just fun to say, so there’s that too.

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Posted Tue January 20, 2015

Natalie Prass Full-album preview

Steer your browser over to this Pitchfork Advance to hear the new Natalie Prass album in its entirety. It’s a damn fine piece of work.

V to Z “King Swim”

Posted Fri January 16, 2015

Joshua Moore is best known for hammering out the drums for the likes of The Katies, Bright Age and The Jane Shermans but he’s got plenty more musical goodness to give to the world. V to Z is his newest solo project in which he plans to release one new track a month, for free, over on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. 

The first released track, “King Swim”, is a great sign of things to come. Instrumental rock with plenty of ethereal swirling, change-ups, slightly off-kilter breaks and post-rock tendencies. If he can manage to keep this up for another eleven installations, we’ll have a helluva album on our hands.