Johnny Sharp
Tragedy and comedy are combined among rich musical moments in Ayreon leader’s pre-apocalyptic adventure.
8mo
While there’s a little less shouting than usual going on, a more laconic American influence serves them well when Charlie Steen’s drawl lends the title track’s electro-pop textures a Dandy Warhols feel, and “Lampiao” channels an LCD-style tale of gangster mythology.
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8mo
Although this LA-based Chinese-Icelander gas woven a loose temporal theme through the loungey chamber pop of her third album, it's the waspish lyrical sting in the tail of these songs that sets her apart.
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9mo
When delicate motifs from accordion, harmonica and piano join her softly plucked acoustic guitar it can make for a sweetly seductive sound, but just as often her vocal melodies meander without leaving a mark.
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9mo
Here they have shuffled back a few years from the disco and jazz-funk infusions of 2021's Private Space to a more sun-dappled classic soul sound. It suits them perfectly too.
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11mo
They lurch with satisfying abandon through funereal Slint-like post-rock to unashamedly slovenly pixies-ish riffs to splenetic blasts of screaming hardcore and staccato math-rock scrapes, as Zak Bowker intermittently makes his strangled screams heard above the maelstrom.
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1y
Even when the sonic mood broods on "Radical", the optimistic sentiments (quoted in the album title) reflect a creative force in rude force.
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1y
Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá.
1y