Nov 9, 2018 | Alpha Hall Reviews, Reviews
“Alpha Hall are from the same Hidden Shoal stable as Kramies and Summon The Birds. They’ve been described as a cross between The National and The Dirty Three. It’s not a bad description. There’s a certain understated Matt Berninger manner to the vocals,...
Nov 6, 2018 | Lunar Landscape Reviews, Reviews
[Translated via Google from the original French] “These seven songs make English understand in every sense of the word, as they propel on epic sinusoidal hills of Hertz, with guitaristic climbs and gentle descents, combining voice and instrumentation, until the...
Nov 6, 2018 | Moonchy & Tobias Reviews, Reviews, Todd Tobias Reviews
“Italian-American duo Moonchy & Tobias craft a slow, drifting mechanical soundscape with a wide variety of musical texture. The song starts off with avant-garde samples, ripping, soft-tapping on wood, and a little tape hiss. As the song begins it’s march,...
Oct 22, 2018 | Kramies Reviews, Reviews
“The Dutch American singer-songwriter Kramies has been making dramatic dream-pop for ten years now and if ‘The Hill Dweller’ – the first single to be taken from his forthcoming EP, the enigmatically entitled Of All The Places Been & Everything The End – is...
Oct 22, 2018 | Kramies Reviews, Reviews
“There are two big reasons to share this new track from Kramies. The first, is fairly easy, as Jason Lytle of Grandaddy worked on this song, so that sort of cements the important if Lytle believed in it enough to work on it. Second, I feel like I’ve really been...
Oct 22, 2018 | Lunar Landscape Reviews, Reviews
“Shoegaze post-rock can be either exceptional or really bad. Let’s be honest, there are some bands who try to create cosmic instrumental tunes that essentially are three or four chords repeated over five minutes. Fortunately for us, French five-piece Lunar...