It’s a simple yet complex classical singer-songwriter album, combining the folk/soul/blues of Nina Simone with the analytical naiveness of Daniel Johnston.

The enigmatic vocalist brings down the speed of Fontaines D.C. sound and encapsulates the existentialist and observant spirit of Irishmen like Joyce and Beckett in this collection of songs combining traditional and modern sounds, as if Nick Drake will be playing Trip-Hop.

Chaos meets control for this New York duo... Songs that provoke an irregular rhythmic dance, and from time to time the tranquility appears in the form of simple and honest baroque ballads.

Caroline Polachek's "Desire, I Want to Turn Into You" is a passionate and melodic odyssey into the darkest corners, drenched with the most sincere and purposeful pop music.

Yo La Tengo's new album, "This Stupid World", is an esoteric mix of lively and somber melodies… FANTASTIC!

A normal album of a band that is not!
Gilla Band's music is defined by irony. The songs titles, in the first instance, indicate that it will be something absurd (or satirical), but in reality they are talking about something very serious. 🔥

In order to understand Jockstrap and their debut album, you have to identify their wonderful bipolarity. It's a mix between Joni Mitchell and Kraftwerk. Their jump between opposite musical genres is at the same time their gear. It is a collection of songs that are meant to be shout abroad and at the same time to be kept them in your subconscious.

A malicious and sarcastic smile...

Kendrick Lamar's "Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers" is more than just a wacky and captivating album; it is a TESTAMENT… ✨

The third album of the Dublin band is full of gothic melodies and jangle pop, recalling albums like "Disintegration" by The Cure or "Document" by R.E.M., as well as neo-psychedelia, shoegaze, the Madchester sound and a bit of the Movida Madrileña —basically it is a reincarnation of an alternative album from the mid 80's—. The themes of these 10 songs evoke the sensation of movement, migration and loss of identity: living in a place that seems to be home ... read more

The interesting thing about this album is its double face: ambient but suddenly industrial; quiet melodies that become cathartic. It's like a magnetic field. Two opposite poles attract each other and form a whole.

It's liberating but at the same time claustrophobic. It's the Baltimore duo's melodramatic dream pop, but with a futuristic Dee-woop approach. Stitches from Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and Laurie Anderson's futuristic poetics are sprinkled throughout each chapter. It is inevitable to not feel something and get lost in the melodies.

The cover says a lot about the content. A collection of pure, relaxed and ambitious songs. Very detailed sketches of moments or memories bathed in roots music and psychedelic folk that evolve into an electronic trip hop (folktronica). The result is very close to the aspirations of a 'White Album': the reach of maturation and experimentation from going back to the roots and the utmost attention to detail.

It has a less thunderous sound than the first album but more unpredictable, full of emotions and tonalities. Isaac Wood's lyrics are so penetrating and evocative that they make you imagine things from an unusual place, and he sings them with such fragility and sincerity that you trust him and the rest of the band. Vocal and musical details complete a blank canvas, filling it with everyday and mystical impressions.

It is an impetuous and unpredictable album. It's a great collection of songs full of twists and turns: the delicate introspective study in a chamber music suddenly transforms into high clamorous and direct bursts of math rock and post hardcore.

A new kind of sad happy vibes. An overload of wackiness and sarcasms over the angriest truth intentions: mocking of some British manners.

24 minutes of pure sincerity, without fear of expressing the true inner feeling. Alluding to Earl's comment when he announced the album "art imitates life", this is an ode to leisure, boredom, loneliness, and yes, to feeling sick.

A wonderful dilemma: a complex study on the human and spiritual condition, surrounded by a simple, direct and emotional musical production. From the beginning to the end you feel the evolution of the album and it becomes a dream, that you forget that it is a list of tracks.

Not as good as her debut album, but still, she has managed to create heartfelt and introspective lyrics about everyday life, on top of vibrant and relaxing melodies. There are some reminiscences of the spirit of The Go-Betweens (a great Australian band) here and there.

The peculiar pioneers of slowcore in the 90s present a distortion to their minimalist sound by combining glitches and low harmonic sounds, transforming them into an enveloping symphony. It catches you and doesn't let you go.