Category: Rock

This is one of the few songs to bring a 90-year-old true crime story to life. With real style, Dave Omlor does it. The first few seconds you know what kind of ride you are in for. It’s loud, it’s fun, it’s this kind of energy that’s very contagious . There’s something very immediate about the way the song starts. […]

There are songs that feel like a warm hand on your shoulder. Bells of Silver by Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends is one of those. It is soft, deliberate and quite easy to sit with. As if it draws you back to it on lazy nights, perhaps when you just want a feeling of honesty and human nature to […]

It’s a thing about good synthwave, it’s like, I’m in a different place. Peel The Sun does that from first note. It immerses you into this cozy and somewhat disorienting universe, which seems like a movie you’ve already watched but forgot. It’s a feat seldom achieved. The production here is really amazing. Each layer is in the correct position. The […]

There are songs out there that just have a swing to them that you can’t help but get into. Decisions is a track of that sort. It’s immediately apparent when you start the track that there’s the groove in you, and it never leaves. It’s a song that will make you feel good without you realizing it. The track pulls […]

There are songs that have no description but are very easy to feel. Under Your Spell is just such a song. It slowly wraps itself around you and by the time you realise what’s going on you are already lost in it. That’s not a bad thing, it’s a good thing. This is a really satisfying instrumentation, breezy and layered. […]

Some songs simply make you want to turn up the volume. For the Weak is one of them. It comes in with a sense of urgency, a sense of restlessness, it’s alive, guitars crash in. No soft start here. It goes for it and that confidence is contagious. There’s something very immediate about the energy of the track. It doesn’t […]

There are some songs that take some time to show themselves. Let Us In by The Shrubs is one of these. It slowly fades in, like it’s sneaking up on you, and you’re all in before you know it. This gradual development is one of what makes it so effective. The drums established the mood from the get-go. This pulse […]

Some songs are instant hits and I believe that War Killer does just that. From the beginning there is this kind of unrefined energy that is continually moving forward. It is loud and urgent, but not faux. There’s a reason for this. There are many songs that attempt to be meaningful, perhaps, but this one does feel like it’s from […]

It’s a beautiful piece of music, and Filip Dahl brings it back with a new instrumental, Flying High. Aside from the guitar playing, there are no vocals in here and that’s exactly what the song needs. Already on the first few notes you can hear there’s someone who understands how to let the guitar sing on its own and not […]

Stainvarp have brought it with something that really matters with the complete. The new offering of the Swedish outfit does not conceal its subject–this is parental love in the distorted guitars and the high-flying tones, and it has the full value of its emotional load. The song begins with a lyrical closeness. Plucked guitar and voice, exposed and mesmeric. Then […]

The Spitting Pips have something maniacally decadent about their “Vicious Circles”–a song that does not merely recount disorder, but literally flings you down into its intense, swirling core. The Llandudno quintet have created something truly visceral, the type of rock that makes you feel a bit dizzy and uncertain of what exactly has happened. The opening screeches of the wah […]

It has something romantically old-fashioned about Beautiful Star–it seems almost like finding a gem that has been buried in another century but it sounds so very up to date. The former Cisco frontman, Sean T MacLeod (who has worked with the producer of U2, Paul Barrett) has produced a track that lies squarely between the pop ambition and the rock […]

Mercy Kelly of Greater Manchester have come back with one, called Out in The Night and it is at once obvious that this four-piece band does not have nothing against doing things in half. Since they played Kendal Calling and Tramlines Festivals, and otherwise, have racked up more than 400 radio plays, created on the grassroots strength, they have created […]

Andy Smythe, a songwriter from London , has produced something that is truly endearing in his song, Emergency, a song that seems to have been discovered by chance in the untold history of the British pop. As the first single of his upcoming album Quiet Revolution, this song is an easy way to cross eras, combining the melodic narration of […]

It brings with it a kind of silence that falls upon the moment when Thistroubledsoul starts. It doesn’t hit all at once. It is time consuming, getting in slowly like some emotions when you have been holding on to them all along. Listening to Highroad No. 28 after almost ten years of silence on the part of the band was […]

The Cruel Ploy from Hamilton have created something truly unheard with Xs and OHs, an debut album that transforms the alternative rock into a dystopian vision. As post-human machines find corrupted human music files, this idea of the conceptual model may have been gimmicky – instead, it is superbly performed, which makes the sound rebellion raw and abrasive and purely […]

Some songs do not play, they explode, and ENAVEs Skeletons explodes like an orchestrated blast in the shut rooms of the soul. This is music to distract, not to ignore but to invite you to see all that you have closed behind closed doors and hope that silence would make them fade away. The song has a take hold of […]

What would become of the wonderful imperial couple of Austria when they appear in the modern Vienna and discover their palace full of tourists? Austrian project Ratlehole provides the answer to this question with the gloriously absurd theatrical metal, and the outcomes are as entertaining as they are surprising. The opening note of Franz and Sissi: Back to Schonbrunn are […]