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Vanilla Franco – Traction
Album | 01/12/2023 | SULI Records
38:07 | 9 tracks | Digital
Garage Rock / Heavy Rock
Bury St Edmunds, England
This nine-track release is the first longplayer by a one-person band which comes with the energy of a whole orchestra. Sonorous and fuzzy riffs plow through the soundscape like a heavy steamroller while master of ceremony Joey Quinn directs the scene. Vanilla Franco presents a steaming melting pot of heavy psychedelia, noisy melancholia, Punk Rock attitude, and butt-moving rock music, so let’s have yourselves a Good Time with this massive banger of an album.
8/10 Mangoes
Death by Piano – Trust
Single | 25/03/2024 | Independent
3:41 | Digital
Darkwave / Synthwave
Brooklyn, NY, USA
From the EP VOW (03/04/2024)
With their six-track EP VOW, Brooklyn’s Death by Piano provide an authentic multi-sensory experience that enters the listeners‘ mind through ears and eyes. Once the synapses are afflicted by the stunning sounds and visuals, VOW unfolds in the audience’s consciousness with its sensual, passionate, and holistic character. The single Trust is a beautiful presentation of how music can open hidden doors and paths within the human mind.
Cheryl Craigie – Migraine
Single | 01/03/2024 | Independent
3:26 | Digital
Hip Hop / Rap
Woburn, MA, USA
Let’s talk about ice picks, explosions and pounding inside our heads, and about a disease that frequently paralyses millions of people. The single Migraine raises awareness for the eponymous phenomenon on a monster of a beat and via a razor sharp flow. Cheryl Craigie is an empowering and uplifting track that will help you get moving wherever you are.
Jagas – Devenu Deux
Single | 21/03/2024 | Label Team
3:14 | Digital
Indie Pop / Love Song
Paris, France
It will always be miraculous and beautiful when one becomes two, when solitude ends, and when love takes control. Parisian artist Jagas transforms this overwhleming moment into a gorgeous love song via a gentle piano piece, his comforting vocals, and deeply touching lyrics uttered in the language of love. Get ready to melt away like snow in spring to this affectionate tune.
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Aptøsrs – Elders
Album | 29/03/2024 | SkyBabyRecords
38:11 | 8 tracks | Digital
Post Rock / Synthwave
Los Angeles, CA, USA
More than 150 million years ago, a creature that humankind has named the „deceptive lizard“ (Apatosaurus) has wandered on Earth, and now the herbivorous sauropod is the eponym for Paul Terry’s newest project Aptøsrs. The album Elders is a great presentation of the various skills of Paul Terry, reaching from orchestral and Ambient sounds over cinematic Progressive and Post Rock themes to the spheres of Electronica. Aptøsrs‚ debut album is a mind-expanding sonic journey without borders or restrictions.
8/10 Mangoes
Fugu Quintet – Interweavement
Album | 16/04/2021 | Independent
36:20 | 6 tracks | Digital
Dark Jazz / Doom Jazz
St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Alongside many guest musicians, St. Petersburg’s Fugu Quintet presents their version of the hypothesis that the world we live in is just a simulation created by a further advanced species. Humankind’s mission in this artificial world is to be creative, but at some point they just began to turn against each other and destroy each other’s achievements out of greed. Such a dark but complex scenario needs gloomy and sophisticated soundscapes, and that is exactly what the Dark Jazz combo presents on this stunning album.
9/10 Mangoes
Sickrecy / Barren – Split Album
Split Album | 22/03/2024 | Selfmadegod Records
28:28 | 15 tracks | Vinyl/CD/Digital
Grindcore / Crustcore
Växjö, Sweden / Belgium
Human society may be abut to collapse due to increasing international conflicts, climate change, and the limitedness of ressources. While capitalists scoop up goods and fortify their castles, fascists take control of power, and people everywhere go down the drain. The Split Album by Sweden’s Sickrecy and Belgium’s Barren is both, the soundtrack for this broken world we live in, and the soundtrack for the violent revolution that this world needs.
9/10 Mangoes
Maya Salafia – Swim
Single | 12/04/2024 | Performers On The Go
3:55 | Digital
Indie Pop / Indie Folk
Boston, MA, USA
New England’s up-and-coming artists Maya Salafia has recorded a colourful song about those moments and phases when we are completely overwhelmed by emotions, and everything is turned upside down. Swim is about having a crush, and about how everything stops to make sense and turn paradox instead. Maya Salafia masterfully lets words and sounds flow directly from the ear to heart, and into the whole body from there.
We will dance again
Mia Schem
