Peruvian singer and producer, Mono, has released his first studio album titled High Anxiety. An electronic pop and alternative R&B production, an effort it took the artist about a year of work aside with prestigious producer Alejandro Leon (Tourista, Kanaku & El Tigre, Astronaut Project …) It’s a compilation of eight songs filled with deep lyrics that resembles passages of nostalgia and melancholia. Mono gives us compositions inspired by different moments of his life, stories that deal with hard topics such as loneliness, anxiety, failed love, complicated relationships, and even death. All this wrapped in catchy melodies built on synthesizers and industrial sounds, with influences ranging from Depeche Mode to The…
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Photo Credit: Joanne Kim Itasca, the folk project of California songwriter Kayla Cohen , has announced her new album Spring, due out November 1 on Paradise Of Bachelors. After releasing 2016’s acclaimed Open to Chance, Cohen escaped Los Angeles for a six-month retreat to a 100-year-old adobe house in rural New Mexico. Cohen wrote the ten songs of Spring there, inspired by the region’s vast isolation and rich cultural history. The album’s title refers to the desert’s sparse water sources, which Cohen envisions as “the search for true connection to the earth, the seductive nature of answers… the dusty spring deep in the mind that keeps us sifting.” The Fader…
WATCH HERE Matthew Chaim is releasing the official music video for his latest single, “Sunflowers.” Directed by filmmaker Leo Zuckerman, the music video provides the perfect visual accompaniment to the deeply personal single which was released late last month. Watch the official “Sunflowers” music video HERE. Written as an ode to Matthew’s late father’s favorite flower, the sunflower takes on a life of it’s own in both the song and video, acting as a connection between father and son and the time that was taken from them. The video flips between scenes of Matthew now and a version of his younger self, making…
Electronic producer and experimental drummer JBXDR has announced the release of “Pocketcall” set to impact on August 23 via Springstoff. LISTEN: JBXDR – Pocketcall Single JBXDR has worked alongside notable producers such as Andy Baldwin (Hidden Orchestra, Belle & Sebastian), Jeremy Loucas (Spacepilot), Diana Krall (Order Of Canada) and Terry Lynn Carrington (Giovanni Tommaso Quintet). The artist has already seen substantial press support from Resident Advisor, Clash Magazine, Data Transmission and Son Of Marketing radio support from Amazing Radio. JBXDR has showcased his talent of the stages of Fringe and The Great Escape in Brighton, UK, as well as a string…
LISTEN: Leanne Tennant – Bring It All Back “Bring It All Back” is the latest single from UK born singer-songwriter Leanne Tennant, set to be released on August 22 via LT Records. “Bring It All Back” is the second track off the forthcoming album, recorded and produced by Konstantin Kersting (Tia Gostelow, The Belligerents, Mallrat) in Brisbane, Australia, and mastered by Steve Smart at 301 Studios (Dean Lewis, Empire of the Sun, Flume). “Bring It All Back” follows “Cherry Cola,” the stellar first single from her highly anticipated new album, which premiered and gained high rotation on Double J Radio.…