shoegaze
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While the dreamy, guitar-driven indie pop of Beach Fossils wasn’t impressing me when the band’s music blew up on the blog-o-sphere several years ago, Clash The Truth is proof that some sounds just need time to develop. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On the band’s first effort in over 20 years, My Bloody Valentine doesn’t overreach their seminal efforts on Loveless, but the band still proves they have a hefty amount of relevance and creativity to spare when it comes to shoegaze. WATCH THE REVIEW
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[audio:http://www.hardlyart.com/mp3/GraveBabies_NoFear.mp3]”No Fear” [audio:http://hardlyart.com/mp3/GraveBabies_OverAndUnderGround.mp3] “Over And Under Ground” (LOVED) Toward the end of this month, Hardly Art will be releasing the latest album from the post-punk trio Grave Babies. The band has dropped a few
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CLASSICS WEEK: My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless. Even 20 years after its initial release, this album still thrives as one of the strangest auditory experiences in rock and pop. Kevin Shields and company truly came together with a sonically surreal album here that still has modern experimentalists intrigued. WATCH THE
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While Crystal Castles continues writing some decent electropop tunes, on III the Toronto duo sees fit to decorate all of them with generic drum timbres and an overabundance of reverb. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and sonic explorer Nik Fackler has a new, self-title album out on Team Love Records, and “Saw A Blind Dad” is one of the tracks from it–and it’s an attention-grabbing track at that. The song is a real barn-burner, and kicks off with some punishing walls
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Dagdrøm by Nadja Nadja is a ambient doom metal duo who hail from Toronto, although, it began as solo project of Aidan Baker. The duo has a startlingly full sound that can easily encompass an entire room with the heavy drones of the guitar and dramatic volume shifts. It creates
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Working with the spacious and slow jam-inspired sound that was defined on 2011’s With U EP, Holy Other is now taking his style to the full-length format. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Improving on the project’s debut in 2010, Gemini, Jack Tatum’s Wild Nothing presents a group of dreamy, well-written, and catchy songs on its sophomore release. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Right not there’s a recurring trend in beat production that involves employing loads of amtmospheric effects, delicate samples, and moody melodies and chord progressions. Dude’s like Clams Casino are certainly at the forefront of this up-and-coming style, and thanks to Tri Angle Records, music like this kinda has
