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stylized-corpse · 2 months

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This new Ghoul EP is pretty sick!

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gbhbl · 5 months

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EP Review: Wicked Smile - Night Time Riders (Self Released)

Is there anything more familiar in music than Aussie hard rock? It’s a genre itself and Wicked Smile embody the hair-raising, horn-throwing, and head-banging best of it.

Australian heavy rockers, Wicked Smile will release a new four song EP titled ‘Night Time Riders’ on November 17th, 2023, which coincides with the band’s UK headline show at The Motorsport Lounge in Llandudno, Wales. This being the first date of a run of dates across the United Kingdom with festival appearances at WinterStorm and Planet Rockstock included too. Is there anything more familiar in…

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nullhumanperson · 1 year

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EP Review - NIGHTLIFE by YURAGI (揺らぎ)

Nightlife is a 2016 Shoegaze EP released by the Japanese band YURAGI (揺らぎ). It sticks out among the greats in the shoegaze genre with its flowery instrumentals, raw, emotion-packed vocals, and the typical haziness found within the genre. The album leads with the loud and in-your-face Soon, introducing us to the show-stealing vocal performance by Mirai Akita. She stands out even more on the second track, Night Is Young, showing a wide range between soft and quiet vocals, to an eruption of emotion with a memorable hook midway through which is then repeated throughout. The same can be said about the 7-minute-long epic AO., where in addition to the killer vocals, the backing instrumentals really shine. On the whole, Nightlife is an excellent display of shoegaze at its best, flowery such as it is depicted on the album art, colourful, noisy, and abrasive at times, yet beautiful nonetheless.

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luuurien · 1 year

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♥ GOJII ♥ - CURRENTS

(EDM, Progressive House, Future Garage)

On their latest EP, Gojii explores future garage with an unexpected lushness, warm synths and peppy vocal samples driving their club-ready EDM tunes to peak euphoria. CURRENTS’ short length and uniform sound cuts some possibilities short, but what’s here is wonderful nonetheless.

☆☆☆½

Over the past few years, Gojii’s dream-infused dance music has made for some of the most entertaining and purely fun electronic music to grace the underground, primed for club listening with its sturdy drum programming and explosive synth leads but hiding a subtlety and sweetness if you knew where to look. Their latest EP, CURRENTS, continues that hot streak with four more delightful garage jams, a short but uplifting listen where Gojii’s neon synths and thoughtful builds make both some of their best songs to date and another exciting, if brief, look at what a full album from them might look like in the near future - their music has changed quite a lot since 2020’s All My Heart, and seeing how each subsequent EP after it built off it only makes what they’ve done on CURRENTS that much more of a thrill. A brightly-hued mix of progressive house, melodic house, and the bubblier sides of garage and techno, CURRENTS’ party-ready sound doesn’t discount much of the complexity and depth Gojii’s music has taken advantage of since the start, slick breakdown sections and subtle but deeply felt changes in the drum programming keeping the EP fun all around without sacrificing the unique celestiality their music often has. BLOOM’s speedy techno groove and bouncy synth leads are great on their own, but it’s how they chop up a vocal sample and throw different synth arpeggiators in ways as the song slowly builds up to its glittery end section that makes the song so memorable and rewarding to dig into on repeat listens. There’s a similar sense of movement to VANISHING POINT and EVENT HORIZON, the former’s darker synth pads and heavier presence bringing a lovely thickness to the song even in its loudest moments while the latter’s pulsing arpeggiators and massive final minute of trance madness finds a perfect balance between trance euphoria and smoothly layered EDM bliss, intense enough to put you under Gojii’s spell but with a warmth and sweetness to it the whole way through. They know what makes their music click, and few moments on CURRENTS don’t take full advantage of Gojii’s marvelous production and ear for groovy dance tunes. There’s still a sense of fullness missing from their EP’s that simply can’t be matched by a full-length release - I can only imagine how wonderful a full album of BLOOM’s and EVENT HORIZON’s might be - but CURRENTS is a smashing success for Gojii regardless, another collection of bubbly dance tunes with as much vigor as they have complexity, the detailed inner workings of their prog-EDM fusions of garage, footwork, juke and more technically impressive and always a delight to listen to. At its core, CURRENTS is a collection of fun, joyful dance songs, and it’s impossible not to let that into your heart.

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adotrevsleft · 2 years

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28 Reasons - EP review

Reviewing 28 Reasons the title track:

Music production analysis:

Exactly what I thought we would be expecting, this song is perfect for Seulgi. The lyrics also perfectly seeds into the darkness of a human being. Although, my belief is different to what the video was about, it was a video in which it was answering one of the biggest questions in the philosophical world, this song was trying to just prove an explanation to it. Giving weird examples of "I kiss your brother, I steal that heart, you can't even feel the poison" shows that I may have been the perpetrator for kissing him, but deep inside him he has a heart in which is willing to give to evil because he can't feel it, he might be evil, and trying to not become tempted towards evil. Another part is the bridge, where it says "You're in danger, but it's okay, you're grown up", how we are growing up and only then we might realise if we are truly pure evil or pure goodness. The lyrics was a beautiful argument, going from the pov of evil to the pov of good. The instrumental, the whistle that was added made the song 20000x better, the bridge made me realise how much this instrumental sounds like something out of a movie and with that I am going to move on the the music video production.

Music video production:

I mean I didn't expect anything less, the music video was so beautiful to look at, it was almost like watching a movie, the two different people of Seulgi, itself makes it so much better. It's such a beautifully put music video. The angles were beautiful, the settings that Seulgi was put in, was really good, the wider perspective in the beginning, with the white, probably shows the good and how she is much lost in a wide grassland, it shows how small the goodness we have is compared to this world, how, the bad stares at the good, possibly leading to her death as she was levitating later on in the video, it was brilliantly made. To fit the music, the lyrics, it made it overall really easy to understand what was going on, I'm really grateful to the production team that made this debut even more excellent, I have no words except fantastic!

The rest of the EP review:

Dead Man Runnin':

Interesting production, I do have to say my favourite part is the bridge, it's godly. The chorus on where she keeps the note for longer, the bridge again, where there is a normal, quiet bridge and then repeats it again but with a more upbeat instrumental is just perfection. This song is truly really good, but not something I will listen to, if you like a song that is dark and that gradually gets louder I would recommend this.

Bad Boy, Sad Girl (ft. BE'O)

How do I explain my love for this song, I love it so much. It's so good. It's simple but cute to listen to every now and then. It's a lovesick song, but with feelings of anger yet is put in a such a calm, beautiful manner in which makes me vibe in my own bedroom, I cannot explain my love for this song, because it's too good. The chorus is so addicting and catchy to listen to. These days I have just been randomly saying to myself "eme hageganun bad boy bad boy bad boy gwe nisen chi hejonan sad girl sad girl sad girl, onel bam dom up alone" it's so good. Favourite from the album.

Anywhere But Home:

Yet another bop. This fits Seulgi's voice so well, probably the best out of any song here. The chorus is so cute and catchy, a simple yet beautiful song, I might listen to this while I'm going to get the train or something, again a song of love but it's a matter of is this serious love instead of hopeless love that we see in Bad Boy Sad Girl. Really good tho. I would recommend this to people that like Red Velvet b-sides ig, or jus something sweet to listen to, it sounds almost magical, this love in this song.

Los Angeles:

It sounds like a really good DJ remix, ngl. I'm not saying tha just because of the chorus, the whole song just sounds like it, with the background noises, even during the bloody bridge. So, if you like DJ remix songs like Alan Walker songs or David Guetta or Sophie Francis songs, I guess this song might be partially to you liking, it's just a has a bit of a darker concept.

Crown:

It's not an extraordinary song, it's a pretty decent song, but it's the perfect song to end the experience of the album. It really made me think and realise that I have to take all of this album in, and that's only when I realised how good and perfectly this album was made. It was beautiful for a debut. And I only wish Seulgi to go forward from here as a solo artist, this concept also really suits her and I hope she continues with it.

Overall: 10/10

Ranking of EP album's songs:

1) Bad Boy, Sad Girl (ft. BE'O)

2) 28 Reasons

3) Anywhere But Home

4) Los Angeles

5) Dead Man Runnin'

6) Crown

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indielightuk · 2 years

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EP Review: Danny Gonzalez – Bump This

Danny Gonzalez is an American YouTuber and musician who first gained popularity through vine, where he posted a variety of comedy content on the platform, accumulating approximately 2.9 million followers before the service was shut down. In 2014, prior to the closure of Vine, Danny began also posting content to YouTube, and he focused his efforts there afterwards, and has since more than doubled his audience, with over 5.57 million subscribers on his main channel, and an additional 1.75 million on his second channel. His videos trend towards comedy and commentary, and he does frequent collabs with fellow YouTubers and former vine stars Drew Gooden and Kurtis Conner, both of whom also joined Gonzalez for a 2019 tour, We Are Two Different People which played on the similarities and overlap in the careers, style and overall lives of both the headliners.

In addition to his YouTube channel, which as I’ve mentioned above, it largely focused on commentary, with a general comedic overtone, Gonzalez also produces music, which also has a comedy vibe to it. These performances will also often tie into his videos. Today, I want to talk about his debut EP ‘Bump This’ which was released on 26th April 2019.

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theindyreview · 1 month

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EP Review: Amistat - A Moment in the Sun

#EPReview: @amistatmusic - A Moment in the Sun German twins' latest EP is musical balm for surviving personal struggles @NettwerkMusic @lpragency #newmusic #review #albumreview #Amistat #folk #acoustic #singersongwriter #momentinthesun #comfort

With the constant strains our world can put on our mental health, sometimes music can be the salve that helps us through. For German twins Jan and Josef, the outlet for dealing with their own personal struggles and private battles has been the music they craft as Amistat. On their latest EP, A Moment in the Sun, the duo stripped things down to simple arrangements of acoustic guitars, piano, and…

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newleasemusic · 5 months

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Holysseus Fly shares stunningly personal debut solo EP, 'Birthpool'.

A tribute to her grieving process and subsequent creative rediscovery after recovering from breast cancer in 2021, HOLYSSEUS FLY‘s debut solo EP ‘Birthpool’ is a truly special six-tracker that brims with magnetic strength, devastating emotion and heartfelt beauty. Opening proceedings with the first song written for the EP, ‘Bloom’, a track borne of self-imposed pressure during lockdown to write…

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amplifythenoise · 7 months

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DEBUT EP REVIEW: Little Omens by Alfie Jukes

If you follow Alfie Jukes on Instagram or any of his socials, you are more than aware of the soulful voice that radiates from his young soul and his debut EP is a massive step in his growth from social media darling to rising music phenomenon. The six song EP features previously released singles, “Amsterdam”, “Slow Lane” featuring Lexie Carroll, and “Little Omens” while excluding 2023’s “Traffic…

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stylized-corpse · 9 days

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This debut EP from Clayman is chaotic and heavy.

#Clayman #Enter: Clayman!#noise rock #EP review #Where Strides the Behemoth

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gbhbl · 6 months

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EP Review: Spiritbox – The Fear of Fear (Rise Records/Pale Chord)

Spiritbox ending the year as they begun it, in dominating fashion.

Alternative metal band, Spiritbox are back with a brand-new EP called ‘The Fear of Fear’. Set for release on November 3rd, 2023, via Rise Records/Pale Chord. One of, if not the hottest bands in heavy music right now, Spiritbox’s rise has been nothing short of meteoric. In a very short amount of time – their debut album was released in 2021 – they have achieved a phenomenal number of things. Yet,…

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moleofmetal · 8 months

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EP Review: Evil Blood - With Blood I Summon You (I)

Evil Blood has become somewhat legendary in certain circles on the internet, gaining much praise and fandom. This long-running Croatian act originally came to settle in the sunny UK in the late 80s/early 90s before finding the tepid climes of Scotland best suited for their nightmarish sound. It is here, where they built their strength and fertile foundations becoming a fan favorite local act of…

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thepermanentrainpress · 1 year

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JOHN WHITE: FAMILY

Family – John White Release Date: December 2nd, 2022

Track Listing:

1. Better Days 2. Whoever You Want To Be 3. Wrong Intentions 4. Moments Will 5. Family 6. Stars 7. John White’s Road Less Traveled

John White’s Family is an inspiring and comforting listen. Soft indie vocals blend with touching lyrics and spacey trances. Drawing on his South Los Angeles roots, John White cultivates a sun-kissed and polished essence that is effortlessly charming.

Family is the creative release from a dark period in John Dominguez’s life. After the passing of his father in 2021, he used music as an outlet to work through feelings of love, loss, and acceptance. This background context is laid in “John White’s Road Less Traveled.” A beautifully shot visual film was also created for the album. The video, which feels like a dreamy, Californian coming-of-age narrative, elevates the musical package.

The first track of the album, “Better Days,” is raw and honest. Slow, acoustic guitar and harmonious vocals grapple with finding hope in the depths of grief: “Feeling out of place / Wish I knew a better way to communicate.” Sadness permeates, but the music consoles. “Whoever You Want To Be” is gentle and considerate. Alluring synths join sweet, sensitive lyrics: “I was driving down the 605 / Tryna read your mind on the passing side.” Energizing echoes supporting an overall peaceful sound.

Pain and resilience emerge in “Wrong Intentions.” Deep vocal tones determined to overcome suffering: “But I don’t wanna stay / Alone in my mind / No, I don’t wanna stay / Hoping it gets better with time.” The tune is dynamic. Tranquil verses build up to a chanting chorus. Blaring synths and delicate chimes add to the vivid, rich audio. “Moments Will” is a misty, existential sunset. Smooth notes and sharp bass fade into introspective words: “Chasing horizons I can't replace / With futures that I can't see the same / I miss the people who made me who I am / And I’m afraid I’ll never see them again.”

The title track of the album, “Family,” is an uplifting anthem. Catchy melodies and words give the song a universal appeal: “Don't listen to the ones that's negative / They just mad cause they ain't relevant / Focus on who you gotta do better for / And show the world.” It instills a breezy motivation to cherish those close to your heart. “Stars,” the closing song of the collection and a personal favourite, stuns with slow burn galactic synths. John White’s falsetto runs are angelic and captivating. The timeless bliss of reflection and the permanence of grief: “Inside my mind just flying / I aim it at the stars / That keeps me right where you are.”

John White’s Family weaves your heartstrings. Pristine electro-pop production and deliberate writing quickly make a long-lasting connection. I look forward to the release of his debut album, Through the Trees, later this year on June 23rd, 2023.

Written by: Jenna Keeble

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luuurien · 1 year

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Della Zyr - 모호함 속의 너 Nebulous You

(Dream Pop, Folktronica, Shoegaze)

Softening up her sound with blissful folktronica and lighter bits of shoegaze, Nebulous You positions Della Zyr as one of the leading forces in modern dream pop. The longer track lengths and emphasis on gentler growth make these four tracks some of the loveliest and most immersive to come out of the indie dream pop scene from the past few years.

☆☆☆☆

Listen to 모호함 속의 너 Nebulous You, and there’s a sense of pure wonder to everything Della Zyr’s doing. It’s not so much a purity to her sound as it is a marked shift in how these songs come alive, the dark and moody dream folk of her 2022 debut Vitamins and Apprehension replaced with shimmering electronics and gently picked acoustic guitar, exhibiting a new warmth and bigger peaks that are absolutely gorgeous and a brilliant step forward in her sound. It’s befitting of the grief Zyr traces across these four songs - each sequentially representing denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance - and the ways her world is invariably warped by that loss, reworking much of the lyrics and song structure after the passing of someone close to her in early October and both processing that vacancy and feeding a new intensity to Nebulous You, loss too recent to see with clarity and too devastating to look in the eye. The result is a gorgeous but intentionally blurry EP of lush dream pop and contrasting emotions, struggling to integrate this new loss into her life and in turn making Nebulous You a hauntingly beautiful encapsulation of that intense struggle between understanding and sorrow for Zyr. Many of the production quirks from Vitamins and Apprehension return here - the much-too-quiet percussion, the gentle reverb on her vocals that lets the harmonies hang in the mix just a bit longer, Zyr’s incredibly warm guitar tone that effortlessly combines shoegaze roughness with a lighter indie rock melodicism - but what has changed is the ways she utilizes those elements within her songs. Though not always necessary, the lighter presence of Nebulous You works in Zyr’s favor to keep that dream pop moodiness while simultaneously incorporating elements of folktronica and psychedelia into the greater whole, a glorious stylistic shift for her that doesn’t entirely remove that DIY dream pop sound her and many of her contemporaries have been molding over the past few years. The only real misstep of the tracklist is 봄: 별은 노래한다 (Constellation’s Song), a five-minute riproar of shoegaze guitars and some of her clearest singing to date being propelled by oddly limp drumming that doesn’t have the noisiness and presence to move the song forward in an exciting manner, but even then the song is undeniably lovely with its grungy eighth-note guitar strums and woozy synthesizers, and the EP only continues to improve from there. What Orpheus Sang Before (오르페우스의 비가), easily the best track out of the four and one of Zyr’s strongest songs yet, almost completely drops any percussive layer in favor of delicate singer/songwriter folk that blossoms into a fabulously bright and sunny midsection before its ambient final minutes bring the song to a quiet but magnificent finish - it’s the kind of song where much of the magic comes from the million ways you can dream up scenarios to describe it: flicking through a film roll of cherished childhood memories or laying down on the sea at sunrise and letting each crashing wave snake up your arms and legs. Nebulous You knows how difficult its topic matter can be, and lets the music develop slowly and caringly in turn to ensure Zyr is always at ease even while dealing with the heartache and mental fog death brings. The EP’s two longest tracks, 여름: 모호함 속의 너 / 2악장 / 놓아줄 때가 되면 놓아주기 (Concerto) and Autumn: Nebulous You / 겨울: 대나무꽃 make up the bulk of Nebulous You’s runtime (just about ⅔ of it), both expand Zyr’s musical horizons and take her on the most important journeys of the EP. The former explores glitchy electronics cutting in and out of rowdy shoegaze and tender acoustic passages, fitting as the “bargaining” song of the four, but it’s through these many clashing feelings inside Zyr the song finds so much power, singing of “A face that fades from memory” and “waiting for the sky / to turn your favorite color” but also of something important said to her “in a dream” and an ambiguous yet meaningful expression in her mind, still pushing towards understanding even as sorrow clouds her judgment. In fantastic contrast, Autumn: Nebulous You / 겨울: 대나무꽃 retains the rest of the EP’s stylistic blend with the bittersweet sting of acceptance added onto it, Zyr letting up on the heaviness of her guitars to make space for angelic background vocals and absolutely gorgeous strings to lend extra elegance to a fantastic finale. There’s a roughness around the edges that makes Nebulous You’s floaty atmospheres feel wonderfully homespun and distinctly more intimate, adding to the unsure and emotionally charged territory Zyr is working in to imprint the EP deep into your memory simply for how much love she’s poured into every second. It’s a relatively short listen even at 39 minutes with how Zyr chooses to cut up the runtime, but Nebulous You starts strong and only continues to grow from there, showcasing a newer and greener side of Zyr’s musicality and holding close her stylistic quirks and signature dream pop sound - it might not always hit as hard as you’d expect, but it’s never anything less than wonderful. By carrying her music forward and building it up with new emotional truths and thought-out compositional tweaks, Nebulous You manages to be both one of the most passionate projects to come out of the underground shoegaze scene and a fantastic step forward for Zyr. Her loss might never leave her, but her music provides a harmonious space to carry some of the weight of that sorrow for eternity.

This review is part of the ALL I MISSED: 2022, where I review all the albums I didn't get to from last year.

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theindyreview · 6 months

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EP Review: Good Strangers - Adult Teenage Novels

EP Review: @Good_strangers - Adult Teenage Novels Immersive and explosive folk rock that moves as much as it thrills @VampAndFade #newmusic #EPReview #albumreview #GoodStrangers #Folkrock #indierock #indiefolk #Ireland #musicrecommendation

The chaos and mental health struggles following a painful break-up serve as the main source of inspiration for Irish band Good Strangers‘ emotionally immersive, musically explosive new EP Adult Teenage Novels. The six songs here are masterful compositions, awash in unexpected rhythms, rousing arrangements and thrilling harmonies, all of which serve to empower main songwriter Conor Quinn’s…

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reviewsidedocket · 1 year

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A surprising breakthrough in the mainstream, New Jeans fill in a refreshing k-pop niche that is filled with a creatively 2000s-inspired sound palette. While the journey holds questionable aspects that hold the group back, the glimmers of potential are showcased with the group holding their own with pristine brilliance.

#newjeans #ADOR #contemporary r&b #kpop #futurebass #music review #ep review #ep #music #review #listentothis #2023reviews

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