The first solo album by Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire, I Killed The Zeitgeist shows off the lyrical talent that has gained him so much notoreity as part of the Manics. Known as being the mellow one of the group, his album reflects...
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Like a prairie storm rolling through, Now It's Overhead's new release, Dark Light Daybreak, taps Andy LeMaster's extensive production talents to spawn a robust drencher of an album. LeMaster, a touted engineer and multi-instrumentalist teamed up with members of Azure Ray and drummer Chad Leverett... -
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Facts and Figures is sugary, crystalline IDM by way of Swedish electronicians, The Legends. The nine or so members of the group have refined an album saturated by arpeggiations remniscient of New Order. But a lot more child-like. -
Laptop pop is all about synthetic drumming, cruising guitar, and various background blippage. Over the Atlantic is all about laptop pop. With soft vocals and a mellow techrock feel, the duo of Bevan Smith and Nik Brinkman create a night-time smoothness with their album Junica... -
Britpop always seems to fill in its own gaps. As bands shoot to the top of charts, there are several others that keenly borrow sounds, as the fervor of being the next big thing in British rock is well-documented. In this case, somewhere between Elbow,... -
Leading up to their second album, Monument to the Masses, Ima Robot recorded roughly 100 songs. While a dozen of these went to the new full-length, the band decided to dedicate nine more to non-EP/LP called Search & Destroy. This... -
Where rock and pop collide, expansion meets introspection in a delicate balance. Employing the sweeping Britpop sound of the 90's and quick, biting lyrics of recent, popular Northern acts, Mark Stoney has hand-crafted tunes worthy of arenas, pubs, and bathtubs - by himself. ... -
British hiptronica outfit, Rubicks, is the brainchild of Vanessa Redd & Marc Makarov. The pair, inspired by London's underground uberstyle, created a fuzzworthy alternadance sound - rabid and quirky like a hairstyle you'd wear only to a club. ... -
With a post-apocalyptic sigh, The Foundry Field Recordings passive/ aggressively usher in a desolate future through streaming, lo-fi melancholy pop. Broken by lost airwave transmissions, their album Prompts/Miscues beautifully signifies an end of an age of innocent expansion, with calm, ethereal ballads, waiting for the...