Category: reviews

Kate Brunotts

Northern Virginia native — Kate Brunotts — is just your typical indie bedroom producer who up and moved to Brooklyn at just 18 to pursue a career in music, and fulfill her innermost dream.

This particular track “Bicycle Spokes” is about feeling kinda empty inside, yet still somehow looking like you’ve got it all together on the outside.

Anyway, it’s pretty much perfect in our humble opinion. Quintessential lo-fi bedroom pop music from the year 2019. The renaissance of indie diy music.

The eclectic percussion seems to drive a hypnotic chorus of poignant lo-fi vocals that we really do think seems to transcend both space and time. It’s a perfect mixture of indie lo-fi pop infused with a strong dose of experimental brilliance.

Kate produces everything from her little apartment bedroom. And we feel her sound is quite reminiscent of a sound that can only grow from a real, and authentic source. Here, take a listen for yourself.

Indigo Bunting

Indigo Bunting is an experimental indie pop trio out of Austin, Texas — mixing up catatonic tracks that glisten of gold and seem to radiate vibrations of a most pure, and sublime nature.

If you’re into psychedelic music from the sixties, then you’ll most assuredly fall in love with this magnificent gem from an outfit who’re into the groovier things in life.

You might as well give up bud, you’ll never be this cool…

Indigo Bunting’s “White Noise (Don’t Be a Winner)” is a finely tuned ensemble of a multidimensional melody that seems to come from a different, and more nostalgic place and time. It’s quite simply, bonkers — total madness. But madness of an overwhelmingly beautiful, cool, and refined nature mind you.

And now, without further ado, the time has come to soak in the radical vibrations of “White Noise” — and become infected with a sound that will most definently alter the trajectory of your life.

You too, will become just a little bit cooler by listening to this song. This, we promise you.

Lani Lou

Lani Lou is one of those mysterious bedroom artists who seems to emit a certain nostalgic emotion capable of melting even the hardest of hearts…

Her tender vocals and poignant delivery floats through the fabric of the universe like a timid child attempting to find her way back home.

Lani’s lo-fi music is so delicate, so irresistibly beautiful, you can almost hear the sound of a breaking heart as her intricate melodies unfold like a lazy brook, trickling down a gentle hillside.

Be sure to check out Lani’s latest tracks on Soundcloud, and please give her a follow on Instagram. You’ll be sad if you don’t.

Alex McArtor

Alex McArtor is a budding indie pop artist from the hot and sweaty metropolis of Dallas, Texas.

“Last Blur in the City” is a sublime release off her debut EP, Spoken Word. It’s a winsome slow dance into the heart of a lonesome land filled with broken, empty people.

Alex was inspired by the timeless classic, Lost in Translation. She had this to say about her latest project: “I wanted to write something that would fit in the soundtrack, but would also address some of the tensions that you feel in our largest urban environments.”

Keep up with Alex on Instagram, and be sure to listen to her new album on Soundcloud.

San Francisco based Marinero is a solo project dreamt up by Bay Area artist, Jess Sylvester.

Marinero’s music is simmering of lo-fi indie infused with some subtle hints of Latin roots music. In short, it’s a catatonic mixture of long hot sweaty days, and cool candlelit nights.

Marinero is an eclectic madman of many sounds and has taken part in groups that delve into a spectrum of genres ranging from punk to sampledelia.

Francisco Y Madero (the precursor to Marinero) was the start of the evolution of Marinero’s cholo-fi signature style of taking samples of Latin roots music and mixing in some of his very own cosmic pop flavors rooted in bossa nova and Tropicália.

Marinero’s new album is out now and is streaming everywhere. Check it out now on Spotify.

“Plain Jane”

“Plain Jane” is an experimental indie folk track wreaking of the Velvet Underground and Tommy James and the Shondells. It’s a psychedelic throwback to an acid-soaked time now dead and gone.

The iridescent vocals seem to invite the listener on a dreamy lo-fi adventure dripping with psych-folk brilliance and a nice cool buzz. It’s truly some premium shit.

However, in reality it’s a song about a girl, existential dread, and coffee. Now sit back, burn one down, and prepare to have your mind melted by the freshest sound in town. Here is, hhhhhh…

“Bartender”

“Bartender” is the debut track from Bug Martin’s upcoming record which was released back on July 26th by Pyrrhic Victory Recordings.

After spending several grim years germinating in Baltimore’s bizarre arts scene where Bug wrote and recorded several self-released albums, his new album explores genre-bending tales of hapless love and drunken wisdom.

Bug is a storyteller born in the basement of New Jersey, he’s a singer-songwriter who explores inner space to create moody, alternative-folk music steeped in Americana, blues, and roots music. Bug’s songs evoke existential and confessional themes, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Different Places in Space

Different Places in Space is an indie shoegaze outfit out of Pittsburgh, PA.

Their new single is a shimmering song speaking of empowerment and not worrying about what others think about you.

“I Can Do What I Want” is a psychedelic ensemble infused with elements of dream pop in an enchanting journey through time and space. Now sit back, turn up the volume, and soak in the radical vibrations. You will not regret it.

Frogi

“I wrote time in the bedroom of my apartment when I was really heartbroken.”

Frogi, a Los Angeles based artist, spills her heart out on her latest track with retro vocals that explore the inner workings of the fragmented mind. She weaves ethereal vocals into a subdued soundscape — inducing a dream-like state.

“I lost someone very close to me when I was nineteen, and after that all I could do was write songs all the time. It was the only thing (besides my dog) that got me through it.” 

PERCASSETTE Ft. BELLSAINT

PERCASSETTE Ft. BELLSAINT dishes up a fresh new chillhop jam wreaking of quintessential lo-fi bedroom music.

“Like Gold To Me” is a lackadaisical slow dance into the inner depths of a midsummer afternoon. It’s like gravy on potatoes, or chocolate oozing down the spherical slopes of a steaming hot fudge sundae.

And now sit down, take a load off, and soak in the intoxicating sound-waves of PERCASSETTE & BELLSAINT.

Dante Mazzetti

Dante Mazzetti is a storyteller who was born and raised in New York City, he started playing the fiddle at the age of three. And by five, he was learning guitar and writing his own songs. The rest is history.

Mazzetti’s new track “Hey Now” focuses on an individual who is completely honest about who he is and where he’s at in life — broken and now hardened. He knows that he must leave the life he once had and be born again. But it’ll be hard.

“The songs are doors that open easily into bizarre worlds rather than places of comfort.” – Mazzetti

Àbáse

Àbáse (Szabolcs Bognar) is a multi-instrumentalist creating a magical blend of West African, Brazilian, hip hop, jazz and club music. He focuses on the rhythm section and drifts between funky riffs and silky smooth chord structures. The word “àbáse” comes from the West African Yoruba language and stands for “collaboration” — a key facet of Àbáse’s music.

Àbáse studied at the Jazz Conservatory in Budapest and has had stints in Paris, New York, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador de Bahia — but is currently based in Berlin.

Àbáse’s latest project is a seven piece adventure of instrumental artistry, each channeling a musical journey of its own, while inviting the listener on a personal, emotional journey with guests he encountered along the way…

Pearla

Pearla, the project of 22-year-old Nicole Rodriguez — sounds like your childhood toys all hiding in a trunk up in the dusty attic — innocent, familiar, and at the very same time, tragic and quite sad. Pearla’s songs are intricate artifacts of profound emotion — playful yet evocative, contained yet complex. It’s a perfect balance.

The waxing instrumentation of “Daydream” is a fleeting glimpse into the intricately complex mind of Pearla. And while roots music builds the foundation of her music, Pearla tinkers with stray noises from all edges of the world to relay her hazy, pastel-colored feelings of displacement and wonder.

“This song is about clinging onto a memory until it becomes distorted in your mind, and turns into an almost absurd attempt to escape the present.” – Pearla