I dunno what it is but I’ve always enjoyed the somewhat lackadaisical delivery of Denney and the Jets. It’s got a drunken party vibe to it and I can get behind that. It’s like you can HEAR the audience swaying back and forth in a drunken daze having a great time.

The first full-length album from pop aficionados Scale Model is now available. The list of talent that worked on the record is impressive – Jeremy Ferguson from Battle Tapes recorded it, Matt Mahaffey from Self mixed it, John Baldwin mastered it – but that’s just name recognition to get you in the door. The album is a strong show of force for anyone that likes keytars, sugary-sweet female vocals with a heavy dose of melancholy and explosive dance-y choruses. If you’re into true Pop music, this is for you.

It’s fitting that Tipper Whore’s brand new single is fresh out of the oven as of today as they actually formed as a band on this day in 2012. April Fool’s Day is not the likeliest candidate for forming a band but when you’re making feel good, free wheeling, music for pleasure – it just makes sense. The track is the first taste of their forthcoming full-length, Just the Tip. 

)

Listen to the entire new Denney and The Jets record courtesy of Limited Fanfare Records and American Songwriter.

If you didn’t hear Jensen Sportag’s last full-length release, Stealth of Days, you may not realize they’ve been moving into a territory that feels like it cops some very distinct 80’s production values. This new track, “One Lane Lover”, continues that trend of vaguely familiar bass tropes and forelorn vocals but emerges from the more ethereal styles and feels more in your face (for lack of a better turn of phrase). It’s more up front and more confident. It’s slow groove danceable but still continues to be the solid backdrop for a sexy evening in front of a fireplace with some rare cheese and wine

Describing minimalist electronic soundscapes is rarely enticing – both in text or speech – but with a good set of headphones I was quite pleased by this collection of sounds from Makith. Most of them are short little journeys but sometimes those are the best trips to make.

Yesterday, I mentioned the new short film Devil’s Damned to Try and then immediately dove into the original soundtrack from Ascent of Everest. It’s a haunting piece of work and works on all the levels that a solid soundtrack should work on – as a standalone work and as a charging backdrop to the onscreen action. All involved should be quite proud of this, it is dramatic in all the right cinematic ways.