Albums
8-Bit Heroes – Try Blowing In It
5/10 Pop punk has a bit of a stigma around it of being light hearted and party tunes; otherwise it’s Emo, right? Why don’t we let you decide and watch the world burn ever so […]
Pop
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Loud Library – A Letter Home
3/10 If you are into light, key-driven pop, the A Letter Home EP by Loud Library might just be for you. Unfortunately, however, it’s not for me. Coming out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Loud Library formed in […]
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Ace Buchannon – Magenta Nights
8/10 Stepping out onto the scene with their debut release, Ace Buchannon delivers a crazy 80s-heavy retrowave to your face. Based in Helsinki, Finland, you know that you’re getting some very authentic disco vibes from […]
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The Night Flight Orchestra – Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough
7/10 The Night Flight Orchestra, not to be confused with the Trans-Siberian, Electric Light or Unknown Mortal Orchestras, have put out four albums since 2012. You’d never know that by listening to them. This album […]
Albums
Memphis May Fire – Broken
4/10 2018 is in the books and it was an odd one for recorded efforts. Then again, every year is fucking weird, I’m just trying to make some kind of sentimental point that nobody will […]
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KS- Puta’s Brew
6/10 A 25-song album of instrumental electronic synth, funk, ambient, techno, rock, pop, and disco…what could possibly go wrong? Los Angeles-based KS presents Puta’s Brew, an electronic melting pot of a bunch of different genres. […]
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Dead End Drive-In – Mea Culpa
9/10 Some bands pay way too much attention to what’s come before them and end up sounding like carbon copies of their favourite bands. For examples of this, see Trivium’s The Crusade, Throwdown’s Venom & […]
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Georgia Fearn – Perfect On Paper
9/10 Humble readers, I think we may have a young Tori Amos. Georgia Fearn, seventeen-year-old singer, guitarist, pianist… (she’s seventeen people, from Carmarthen, Wales) released her debut album Perfect On Paper earlier this year (March […]
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Dr.Doak – It’s Time to Leave
5/10 The classic glass half empty, or glass half full; you’re going to have to tell me on Dr Doak’s release, It’s Time To Leave. It’s an ambiguous mix of pop punk, grunge, and rock; and […]
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Colin Weeks – Magic EP
10/10 Need a dirt-cheap vacation to somewhere warm and sandy and not soul-sucking? Plug in to Colin Week’s little gem of an EP, Magic. This four-song, pop-soul release is as smooth as a baby’s bottom and […]