Songs like “Hot Time Traveler” ride a Massive Attack-like gait, with clacking drums, while the strings and guitars create an acid-drenched dreamscape. And then there’s “PCHDMT,” which wouldn’t feel entirely out of place on say – Rosalia’s last record, all fluttering flamenco guitars and ebullient strings, with an additionally healthy serving of the psychedelic. Appropriately, the song itself was inspired by Carnuccio’s own trips down the Pacific Coast Highway.
Los Angeles indie rocker David Croley Broyles has shown a truly eclectic range in his time as a musician, playing with fellow LA acts like The Planters (arena rock), Cloud (indie rock), and Winter (dream pop), writing film scores, and performing solo under the pseudonym David Yorr. READ MORE…
Founder and mainstay Andrew Grimm is responsible for the eleven songs that grace the band’s impressive new album, How We See It Now, putting emphasis on a cool caress and a decidedly soothing sensibility. Comparisons to Old 97s morphed with The Jayhawks and the Gin Blossoms also come to mind, especially given the depth and devotion that Grimm and company share in each of these songs.
Alexandra Riorden’s debut LP Angel City Radio is an abstract chronicle of the tumultuous healing process one endures after experiencing trauma, wrapped in a smoke-scented velvet curtain of shimmering indie-rock. Over the course of the album, Riorden explores the complexities of healing through independent but loosely connected vignettes. READ MORE…
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
K Michelle Dubois – Southern Gothic Dream (Baby Robot Records)
Sharon Van Etten, Fiona Apple – Love More
The Wirelight – Everything’s Cool
girl in red – You Stupid Bitch
Ditchbird – In It Together
Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Arlo Parks – Track07
Stretch Panic – Burn the Witch & Intro
Jenny Lewis, Serengeti – GLTR
Carissa Johnson, The Cure-Alls -You Lost You – accoustic version
Tigers Jaw – Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Deemer Band – Real Deal
Mannequin Pussy – Control
Juana Everett – Silver Planes
black midi – John L
Guitarmy of One – Keeping up with the Barnaby Joneses
Simona Smirnova – Interrogation – Original soundtrack to The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928 French silent film directed by Carl Dreyer)
You, Me and This Fuckin’ Guy – Bike
Homeboy Sandman – Monument (prod. Quelle Chris)
Kath Myers – According to the Law
Mara Connor – Blues Run the Game
Anna Ash – Less Regret
T. Hardy Morris – The Digital Age of Rome
La Luz – Tale of My Lost Love
Stalag 13 – Conditioned
Deca – Clay Pigeons
Roc Marciano – Flash Gordon
Chore Boy & Brad Kemp – Vague Idea
GILA – Energy Demonstration
clipping., Cam & China – ’96 Neve Campbell
Kacey Johansing – Make Love
Partner – Hello and Welcome
PVA – Talks
Shygirl – SLIME
June Star – “I Don’t Wanna Know”
“Human beings are messy emotional creatures,” says June Star’s Andrew Grimm. “Sometimes when we struggle to communicate in relationships it’s because there’s the voice we speak with and that voice in our head. ‘I Don’t Wanna Know’ bounces between a professed love to another person and a confessed loneliness on the inside.”
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