Soundcloud Gems: Safe Boating is No Accident
What do fans of indie folk rock, David Foster Wallace, and the Mile High City all have in common? Safe Boating is No Accident, the Denver-based trio that’s taking a sweet swing away from Americana and launching itself in the direction of garage rock while it holds hands with pop. It should go without saying...
Soundcloud Gems: The Always Unprofessional
If you put a poppier Bob Dylan in a room with a less reflective Leonard Cohen that was biding his time chewing on a Jayhawks record, the musical meanderings of The Always Unprofessional might lope out at the end of the night. A funny man whose tunes can’t exactly be tacked down to a single...
Soundcloud Gems: Sooko
“Chill out or get out,” says the mantra of the the Sunday folk or those of us whose lives revolve around the owls of the night even if the office doth come calling in the morning. You know what I’m talking about: that particular hour of the day when the brain needs as much of...
Soundcloud Gems: Souta Niihara
Twilight and dusk: those brief periods where the sky is a certain sunless purple-blue and the cacophony has died off–these are the times for gentle music, for soft conversation, and for quiet. These are moments when it’s sometimes impossible to tear oneself away from the creative work or the bed or the rooftop terrace because...
Soundcloud Gems: Sebastian Nováky
Classical music should smooth over the senses the same way a recherché glass of wine leaves a velvety mouthfeel and lush aftertaste piqued with hint after hint of fruit or pepper or citrus. There’s an obvious difference between boxed wine and a bottle of Tuscan Montepulciano or buttery chardonnay, much as there’s a difference between a...
Soundcloud Gems: Lady Danville
There’s something exciting about watching the whole city unfold during the annual blooming of spring: the lighter flight of sidewalk steps, the floral swell of the air, the return of weekend patio parties, and the late in the day sunset glare. More than anything, though, is the burgeoning sense that everything is beginning instead of...
Soundcloud Gems: Proofsound
Sound junkies think alike: we pick out composers both modern and classic upon hearing particles of a song, we pilfer through stratiform notes, beats, and bleeps focusing on a solitary effect or thrumming percussive kick; and if we’re musicians pitch bending, genre fusing, and chord swimming may well be where we feel at home. Cinematic...
Soundcloud Gems: Baukhol
During a late-night jaunt on an interstate years ago, I tasted the first traces of music intoxication. The album was Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and as physically lucid as I appeared, mentally I traveled somewhere else. A visceral connection with music is one thing, but rapture is something else–immobilizing, inflating, breathtaking....
Soundcloud Gems: And Then
And Then is ethereal. Yes, ethereal. Feather-light and fairy-like, the Stockholm redhead’s electro-pop meets indie acoustic piano pop is a soft breeze to try on. Youthfully carefree, Charlee Nyman’s voice is all at once reminiscent of a more thoughtful Ellie Goulding with slight leanings towards an early 90s Annie Lennox. Sometimes dance-able–perfect for the 18-year...
Soundcloud Gems: Zachary Friederich
Zachary Friederich is a bit of an acquired taste, but with a Conor Oberst-tinged twang once he’s in your system, he’s hard to get out. The Chicago singer-songwriter genre hops along the indie persuasion–from rock to pop to folk–so there’s a track for almost every mood and every taste in Friederich’s catalog. The singer’s strengths,...
Soundcloud Gem: Kellen Malloy
Kellen Malloy isn’t your usual musician and in fact, composer and sound aficionado might suit him a little better. A Denver native now based out of Los Angeles, the man’s place in the music world is to provide the soundtrack for those thirty-second advertorial moments that allow us to live someone else’s life. You’re suddenly...
Soundcloud Gems: The Reverb Junkie
If Rachael Yamagata got together with Imogen Heap and Leslie Feist to do an album, there’s no doubt it would sound a lot like The Reverb Junkie. A singer-songwriter from Ann Arbor, Michigan, her original tunes flit about under heavy piano hands and lean toward acid jazz at times, which feels ridiculously appropriate considering that...
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