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Exotik Robotz – Tears in the Rain: A Hauntingly High Vibe Hit of Synth Pop

Posted on 24 February 2018

Exotik Robotz are a futuristic collective of iridescently talented Electronica Synth Pop musicians hailing from New York. Their sound is a breath of fresh air and serves as a pure injection of positive illuminating vibes. Their latest track Tears in the Rain, is just one of the mix of soul shattering synths that their debut album ‘SUPERNOVAE’ offers. It shines a ray of light through the murky depths of melancholia in the Electronica scene. Their boundless transient sound mixes in Soulful vocals which pour humanity over the track to make Tears in the Rain one of the most evocative listening experiences I’ve had dabbling in the Synth Pop Genre.  The classic piano medleys and soaring guitars are perfectly composed around Exotik Robotz otherwise synthesised sound. The band take their influences from New Wave, World, Glam & Classical music, which can give you an idea of how eclectically pioneering their sound is.

Check out Tears in the Rain on SoundCloud using the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/exotik-robotz/06-exotik-robotz-tears-in-the

Head on over to the bands official website for more beats & tour info:

https://www.exotikrobotz.com/

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Brighter Light deliver Silver linings

Posted on 21 February 2018

When we think of piano driven pop music, thoughts naturally go to either high-concept artists such as Tori Amos or the kitsch commercially of Elton Jon or Billy Joel. But Brighter Light offer another way. Theirs is not only the sound of pop as high drama, dynamic whirlwind, it is also the sound of the boy band ethic taken to a sophisticated conclusion. It is highly accessible, effortlessly classy, classical and yet still cool, emotive, eloquent and elegant.

An honest, heartfelt song, emotions worn openly on the sleeve, a tale of love and loss and set to a slow burning musical journey that moves from piano bar balladry to ultimate musical theatrics, and it is glorious at every step of the way. It is the combination of the underlying classical beauty of serious music and the deftness of the commercial and accessible and it is this play off which sets up a wonderful balancing act at the heart of the song. Some music aims for the head, some the heart, Silver by-passes both and goes straight for the soul.

Jov Delivers A New Interesting New Song ; Secrets

Posted on 11 February 2018

A cool slow jam that’s rooted in the genre of hip-hop and rap of music is what you’ve get to feel when you listen to this track. More like it still mirrored the 80’s hip-hop / rap style and infused in it the new modern vibe of rap sound.

The song is entirely a nice song overall and the intro of the song; the part where a tone hurled that “Hello & Beats” which echoed for a minute before it dispersed almost immediately is somewhat one of the best part of this song that made it very vibrant and promising.

Beyond the Intro of the song, we were then ushered in with to a rather sound with a different tempo. The resulting well pitched slow hip-hop beat that played with time fall into place.

To revoke that same feeling that abounds in the sound of those classical hip-hop slow jamz songs from the likes that of Pac and biggie then “Secrets” by Jov is the perfect song that will bring back those memories.

The cool rap style of Jov is also very impressive and commendable. The lyrics of this song are well penned and very creative. From the lyrics of this song that’s well constructed we can easily inferred that Jov is quite an intelligent and an erudite music writer.

I only have a little problem with the way the song abruptly ended (excluding the outro of the song) and the sound of a phone ringtone that was heard playing in the background whilst the song was just about to get started; perhaps the ringtone was deliberately left to play in the background. Overall I still think the song is really nice and a well penned song.

Music Reviewed By;

Lilian-Debrah

Forget revolution here’s to evolution

Posted on 8 February 2018

All genres of music have to move on, it is the way of things, it is evolution, it is healthy. But there is evolution and there is revolution and the latter doesn’t always work out how you think it might. It seems that within the hip-hop world there are many artists at the moment claiming to be really pushing the boundaries of what the genre can be as we move forward into a new era. Again, healthy. Most, however, seem to be the sonic equivalent of dropping a hand grenade into the middle of the listener’s expectations and then trying to rearrange the debris into new and pleasing shapes. Sure, you really shake things, and then some, but you also find that the result is normally, well…a total disaster.

TRL Beats and Instrumentals has a much more consistent approach and Delusions is the sound of urban music being intensified, inwardly focused, distilled to its essentials and then used to build a dark, gothic-hip-hop sound…now there’s a new concept. The beat and bounce of the music has enough groove to satisfy the mainstream but it is the back streets that they wander, collecting unexpected musical details and re-appropriating other genres that make them stand apart from his chart-focused competition. They blend trippy electronica, sonorous pulsing bass lines, neo-classical piano, found street sounds and fairly progressive structures into a dark and terrible sound. It is sweeping, majestic, chilling and above all brilliantly original and lends itself as much to a live performance as it does to the soundtrack to a street smart-horror movie.

Ethan Charles – Highway Song : Iconic Underground Indie Folk Pierced With Playful Romanticism

Posted on 3 February 2018

Highway Song is just one of the standout tracks off Ethan Charles latest Folk album ‘Less Bullshit, More Ethan Charles’, which is comprised of a meandering mix of contemplative musings from the Alt Indie artist who uses his classical and jazz training to compose poignantly quirky sounds.

The angelic strumming of his acoustic guitar against his soul wrenching vocal ability are just two of the elements that make his sound one of the most compelling that I’ve heard this year. The pace he follows in his music is easy, and fathomable. such energy and evocative emotion are mixed up in his debut single Highway Song that it’s almost enough to bring a tear to the eye. I can’t remember the last time I heard a sound this real.

The New York based actor, writer, and musician has stolen a piece of my heart with Highway Song. Even with his underground status, there’s something deeply iconic about his romanticism that reminds me of the notorious works of Nick Cave, Jack Ladder and Glen Hansard.

If you’re looking for a new folk sound, I can’t recommend Ethan Charles enough. Head on over to SoundCloud where you can hear his track Highway Song now:

https://soundcloud.com/ethan_charles/highway-song-1?in=ethan_charles/sets/less-bullshit-more-ethan

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Techno/House Producer ‘Radiating Circles’ Announces Release of Newest EP ‘Balance in Silence’

Posted on 30 January 2018

Radiating Circle is no stranger to music himself. He’s an artist that amasses an impressive foundational knowledge in classical piano and jazz.

Just recently, the artist expanded the horizon of his art and audience by adding electronic music as a new genre in his style of music. He’s also worked on a lot of music projects that has helped to shape his music career generally.

Radiating Circle’s style of music is mostly influenced and inspired by Aphex Twin, Jeff Miles and Robert Hood, although in a way that has subtly enabled him to present his music that’s underground in character but at the same time have that infectious potential which makes his style of music appealing to others.

After he recently announced the release of his second EP which he’s been solely working on for quite a while now, we eventually was able to see the other side of this artist from this track he titled ‘Balance In Silence”.

Apparently, Radiating Circle crafted this piece of music in a whole new realm that’s characterized with a very high spirit. This Electronic music is the type that engages both the fanatics of EDM music and casual listeners.

Just a brief warning; this is a song that is capable to catalyze the level of your mood once it gets to hit your ear bud within a flash of a second. The high tempo of this wavy beat is the element that moisturizes the song texture and helped to mold the song into a gracious cascading musical bliss.

Like a sound machine backed with a tremendous beat that’s rooted with a little mix of Jazz saxophone sound in the combined Techno-House and EDM genre, this song beautifully humidifies the air flawlessly with an entrancing vibe that’s boldly adventurous.

This is a melodic EDM song with diverse trait and smooth sound. You’ll definitely fall in love with the song when you listen to it.

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-LILIAN-DEBRAH.

Yazzy – When Worlds Collide

Posted on 29 January 2018

It isn’t often that you find the commercial and the classical, the high brow and the accessible all encased in one song, but that is exactly what Yazzy does on Heal Me. There is something of the orchestral in the arrangements, something of the musical theatre in the vocal but essentially it is a pop ballad and so equally at home in the traditional concert hall setting as it would be in the charts. Normally such meetings of worlds feel contrived, as if pop is trying too hard or that the classical world is selling out or dumbing down, thankfully none of that is found here, Heal Me is just a natural bridge between the two worlds.

This North Devon singer-songwriter trades in understated majesty and timeless classical echoes but the clever thing is that it is so rich with melody and emotion that it will still be a sure fire hit with the pop pickers. Not every chart song has to be some obvious, Day-Glo dance floor tear up, every now and again you want something that is just more…well classy. And when that time comes we have Yazzy to look to.

TAYM – If Only I Knew: A Tempo of Tearful Transience

Posted on 24 January 2018

Haunting piano music is set to make a massive comeback in 2018 and TAYM is at the forefront of the talented pool of pianists with his resonant composition If Only I Knew.

If Only I Knew is as far as you can get from a classical composition with a twinge of R&B & Soul, yet, it pertains the heart wrenching melodies of other classical contemporaries such as Nils Frahm & Sigur Ros. With a chilling, yet transient progression, the track unfolds as Taym uses his sonorous vocal ability to lull you into a state of melancholy. What hits you the hardest in Taym’s new release which was dropped on January 03, 2018 is the lyrics, normally it’s a tad cliché to say that the lyrics offer a window into the soul, yet, there’s simply no other way to explain the tearful narrative which the pensive artist has put out there. The track probably hit me harder than the iconic Titanic theme song by Celine Dion with it’s unique ability to just let you slip into the music.

So, grab some tissues and check out the poignant new track by Taym on SoundCloud by using the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/taymofficial/if-i-only-knew

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Music for films yet to be made!

Posted on 22 January 2018

Just as some of the best and most unique experiences happen when you go off grid, as it were, where the road runs out and turns to green, when art runs out of rules to follow; music often only truly comes to life when you run out of labels that easily capture its essence. The music made by might in part be pop, ambient, neo-classical, progressive, operatic, post-rock and cinematic but no one term can sum up more than a fraction of its beauty, so at that point you might as well stop trying.

Even a term like song or track seems too inappropriate descriptions, for what Heron do is create cinematic scores for films which haven’t even been made yet, but which just through their sonic grace conjure a thousand images. Images of wind-swept vistas, dream-like worlds, night time city streets, ancient landscapes and far flung regions of space. It is chamber-pop, progressive rock minus the clutter and pomp but with sweeping guitar washes adding emotion and depth, widescreen post-rock meets ambient soundscaping.

The tools of making music may change but its effect on the listener remains undiminished and the music that this band make bypasses head and heart and talks directly to the soul.

The Death Particle – Atoms: Classical For The Contemporaries

Posted on 1 January 2018

The Death Particle are a Classical music ensemble from Wales, UK, I was always stuck on the opinion that the Manic Street Preachers were the best band to come out of Wales, however now they may have to get behind this conceptually stunning collective of musicians who approach their music in an almost Lynchian fashion.

Their latest single Atoms is one of their more traditionally styled tracks, then there are tracks such as The Laughing Heart which flow with iridescent dramatism. The Laughing Heart is inspired by one of Charles Bukowski’s poems, it will be their last single before their much anticipated release of their debut album Atoms & Bone which is due to be released in early 2018, if that single is anything to go by, I can hardly wait.

Whichever track you go for, whether you’re a fan of Classical styling or not, you’re going to be blown away by their experimental sound in which they dabble in Jazz for a Neo-Jazz crossover to create one of the most stagnantly beautiful sounds I’ve ever had the pleasure of being introduced to.

Check out Atoms & other tracks by The Death Particle via Soundcloud using the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/thedeathparticle