Farees’ new single “The Melting” is one of Classic Rock Magazine’s Tracks of the Week
Set to Farees’s self-coined ‘wall of groove’ production style, this duet with The Meters’ guitarist is a syncopated kaleidoscope of squelchy funk, Latin vibes and Stevie Wonder-esque political ire. Plus the sort of trippy, idiosyncratic moments that make us think of Parliament/Funkadelic (‘That’s Farees right there! He’s on the drums, he’s singing, playing maracas, building spaceships, all types of shit!’). It’s not hard to see why the likes of Taj Mahal have endorsed him.
Atwood Magazine breaks down each track from Austin, TX folk-rock band Under The Rug’s brilliant new LP, Dear Adeline
Loss affects us all in different ways: Some fold into themselves for a long time, whilst others dive headfirst into anything and everything that can keep them occupied and away from their emotional scars. For Under the Rug’s Casey Dayan, the concurrent loss of his mother and dissolution of his relationship sent him down the road of intimate reflection, self-discovery, and world exploration. READ MORE…
ICYMI: PopMatters adds new FAREES single – “Mercury / Orgullosamente” – to their Best New Songs column, calling it “a propulsive track full of rhythmic complexity.”
Neo-funk’s Farees has a new LP, Galactic Africa, coming out on 3 June, and he’s teasing it with “Mercury / Orgullosamente”. The Afrobeats artist creates a propulsive track full of rhythmic complexity, almost recalling footwork’s in some of its moments. It attacks cultural imperialism and appropriations: “Everybody wanna dance like Africans / Be tough be cool like Africans / Sing and shout and play like Africans / Smooth like Africans / Tryna look like Africans, talk like Africans, walk like Africans / But you’ll never be real like Africans / Now hit the drum like Africans.”
The latest B.Knox single – “If I Break – has been added to Renegade Folk, a playlist by Spotify, featuring Orville Peck on the cover
Holler Country debuts new single from Matthew Check – “Okay With It” – noting that “the recordings add an easy warmth to the delicate heart-on-its-sleeve heartbreak of the compositions.”
“Like a 70s Dylan blended with the candid self-deprecating songwriting of Loudon Wainwright III or Warren Zevon, the songs are sad and raw and often painfully introspective.”