sngalbums: Brass Box Bring Their Shoegaze Mythology to the Echo for June Residency Originally appeared on Grimy Goods. Brass Box seem to record inside their namesake. Echoes bounce all over the band’s new album, The Cathedral, and lead singer Ammo Bankoff’s voice never wavers. She spins mythological tales: the crowded guitars create a landscape of brutality underneath what can only be a message from a … Continue reading
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Brass Box Bring Their Shoegaze Mythology to the Echo for June Residency
Originally appeared on Grimy Goods. Brass Box seem to record inside their namesake. Echoes bounce all over the band’s new album, The Cathedral, and lead singer Ammo Bankoff’s voice never wavers. She spins mythological tales: the crowded guitars create a landscape of brutality underneath what can only be a message from a goddess, coming directly from the heavens. As one of the leading singles, “DDM” … Continue reading Brass Box Bring Their Shoegaze Mythology to the Echo for June Residency
All Tvvins downplay the impact of their newly designed bridge by saying it was just for the view, but there is never a bad reason to forge a connection with others. Just To Exist by All Tvvins Continue reading
Love can move at many speeds, as Kevin A’s downtempo number proves handily. Source: SoundCloud / Kevin A Continue reading
Stockholm songwriter Flikka used her single “Someone to Lose” to work out some romantic confusion. In a press release, she describes feeling pain at the thought of a happy ending, saying: “Just the thought of the actual fall can almost be even more painful than the fall itself. How do you protect yourself from the only thing that can save you? I think it’s an extraordinary … Continue reading
Racism is insidious and will likely be part of our cultural lexicon for decades to come. When confronted with equality and love, as Alicia Blue describes in “Incognito,” we can defeat it. Source: SoundCloud / Alicia Blue Continue reading
AllegrA captures the underappreciated intimacy of being in a friend’s home. Every seemingly mundane moment curls into lifelong memories just like the elegant guitar flutters in the verses of “Spoon or Fork.” Source: Bandcamp Continue reading
Brighton, UK’s Evadney uses this pop experiment to consider love, having already fallen, without regret, deeply into it. Continue reading
The Cool Greenhouse may have accidentally found its way into the monotone, experimental bleakness that I covered briefly when ******** released The Drink. “Cardboard Man” puts emphasis on every hard consonant throughout the warped manifesto—it is more of a parable than a reflection of reality. Source: SoundCloud / The Cool Greenhouse Continue reading
San Diego’s Exasperation takes pleasure in the destruction with this crunchy, post-rock number. Bookmark this video for when you need to vicariously let out some aggression. Paradise by Exasperation Continue reading
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