Soundcloud Gems: Catching Flies
Fat velvet beats and a solid whiskey cocktail make for a lustrous night when the air comes in frosted puffs glazed over windows from the inside out. A dishy listen out of the United Kingdom, Catching Flies has a remix of Jill Scott’s poppy track, “Golden,” that flutters feather light through speakers best suited for...
Soundcloud Gems: Edamame
Posturing lo-fi atmospherics at the side of silky smooth crimson beats, singing synths, and verging almost new age in some breaths, Chicago instrumentalist Edamame falls genre-less on the ears and delightfully so. More of an organic experience than emotion-provoking, this beatmaster invites his listeners on a brainwave joyride. soft and airy electronics that grease the...
Event Horizon: Chris Vrenna at Norad Dance Bar
Raiding someone’s music library is kind of like perusing their bookshelf: it gives a glimpse into their inspiration, the color of their worldview and what, exactly, sparks that intangible emotional friction inside their head and heart. If it’s the collection of someone who inspires you, even better. When I interviewed Chris Vrenna last year, he...
Soundcloud Gems: Green River Ordinance
It’s funny the way that troubling periods in one’s life have mental playlists undulating beneath the surface of their memories–much in the same way that certain scents imbue a hazy sentimentality around the edges of other memories. Perhaps this is the latent consequence of the music video era or maybe it’s just proof that a...
Soundcloud Gems: Sylver Tongue
You may know her from her work with Bat for Lashes or alternative rock band, Ash, but Charlotte Hatherley is wagging the microphone on her own now as Sylver Tongue. a cool mix of Debbie Harry and Alison Goldfrapp, but for a generation of technology natives Turning heads with a club-sexy groove whose electro-meets-synth pop...
Noteworthy: “Call the Time Eternity” – Tweaker
Music is medicine to the wounded heart and the most astute composers, musicians and producers know how to speak the language of that anecdote. Tweaker, Chris Vrenna’s project with Jesse Hall, is no different. Eight years have passed since the last Tweaker album was released, but Call the Time Eternity is well worth the lengthy wait....
Event Horizon: A Place To Bury Strangers
Denver’s fancy dress party of masquerading as summer in November may well come to an end this weekend, but snow shouldn’t keep anyone from trekking downtown to the Larimer Lounge to see Brooklyn noise rock band, A Place to Bury Strangers, while they continue to run away from the east coast’s lackluster weather. The lovely...
Soundcloud Gems: Sunday Chocolate Club
Sunday Chocolate Club sounds like a sweet tooth dream in the post-holiday candy crush that is Halloween, but instead it’s a cheery aural project out of Germany reminiscent of The Cure’s sunnier endeavors. Too infrequently did the more upbeat tracks of The Cure make appearances on my playlists in the 90s and early 2000s–I was...
Soundcloud Gems: Man & Ghost
I am not a fan of cover bands, although I imagine they’re some tangible form of flattery for the bands they emulate. Still, the occasional cover song is a delight and in some cases (calling Jeff Buckley,) the cover trumps the original. Such is the case for Man & Ghost, a self-labeled “anonymous band from...
Soundcloud Gems: The Great American Canyon Band
If the days weren’t on the cusp of winter and the trees hadn’t already stripped themselves of their clothing, I’d rent a row boat and go out on the lake with The Great American Canyon Band serving as my afternoon soundtrack. A dreamy skein of burnt lemon yellow and creamy beige music, the twosome based...
Noteworthy: Odd Year & The Reverb Junkie
The Reverb Junkie made a splashy appearance in the Soundcloud Gem column in January of this year and she’s back with a new collaboration with electronic music artist and sound engineer, David Gonzalez–otherwise known as Odd Year. Last month, the two musicians released EP1, a dark rolling five-track record on which Michelle Chamuel’s plummy vocals...
Soundcloud Gems: WVM
Care for some decadence in your headphones? WVM has you covered. Sometimes a record is as much an indulgence as a glass of LBV port wine, intoxicating every cell of your body as the notes filter in through the ear canal. In short, once the music’s playing it’s left on repeat for hours and hours and...
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