Flint, Michigan’s Prox Centauri returns with Reveries, a 3 track EP that blends the contemporary sonics of today’s landscape with adept, golden era lyricism and complex, multisyllabic rhyme schemes. At its core, Reveries serves as an exploration of and meditation on the innate and often innocent pursuit of socioeconomic mobility. Conceived as a natural and logical follow up to his single “Claud” (a tribute to Dr. Claud Anderson’s probings of Black wealth and finance), the EP approaches the idea of affluence from a more intimate and introspective position. The desires and motivations that creep their way into the collective consciousness of urban Americana are often…
Author: Elicit Magazine
photo credit: Borna Jafari “The concept behind the album, in essence, is about how we develop multidimensional selves, a series of personas if you will, that enable us to navigate in a multidimensional universe and how we learn to move between them very fluidly,” explains internationally beloved singer-songwriter/producer Azam Ali about her new album Phantoms (Terrestrial Lane Productions; release date September 13, 2019). “Over time, these personas become like ghosts that live within us… like phantoms.” Like the concept behind the album, Azam herself embodies this amalgamate nature. A singer, songwriter, producer, and sound sculptor, this transcontinental sonic architect crafts darkly alluring songs built around electronic…
Written by Hero Magnus “Underground,” from singer-songwriter George Capon, falls into the wildly popular “sad-happy song” category; the instrumentals are upbeat, but the lyrics have an underlying tone of truth and angst. “Hey there man with a silver spoon / show me what I don’t have,” Capon begins. It’s unclear exactly if his character in the song is a soulless corporate ghoul or a reformed corporate ghoul, warning us not to follow in his path. Either way, the message is clear: don’t overvalue money and don’t undervalue time. “After finishing university I felt as though I had finally reached a…
Photo credit: Trevor Brady Twenty years into their career, Tegan and Sara have recorded a new album that is based on the first songs they ever wrote. Hey, I’m Just Like You – their ninth studio album overall and first since 2016’s Love You to Death – will be released on September 27 on Sire. Fans can pre-save the album now HERE. The album was inspired by a find Tegan and Sara made while they were writing their first memoir, High School, which will be published by MCD X FSG (USA) on September 24, three days before the album arrives. “While working on our memoir, we discovered lost cassette tapes that…
photo by Holland Brown Maria Usbeck just shared “Nostalgia,” the second single from her sophomore album Envejeciendo and follow up to the album’s praised first single “Amor Anciano.” Spanish for “aging,” Envejeciendo is a concept album exploring the universal obsession with youth and our preoccupation with growing older, and available August 16 via Cascine. Told with humor and tenderness, the album is an eccentric collection of dreamlike pop songs, sung in a mix of English and Spanish. The Ecuador-born, NYC-based musician tells Gorilla vs Bear, “Nostalgia is about the moment when you slowly start realizing that you miss everything that was around you at a certain point…