Australian drummer turned band front man, JP (a.k.a. John Milton), and Losing My Mind from the debut four-song EP, Part 1 (November 2015) is a study in bass-driven, melodic, genre blending styles. This rehearsal video, isn’t necessarily studio quality in all respects, but it certainly gives you a hint at what the EP sounds like. If you have any doubt, click over to the bandcamp.com link and listen. JP’s vocals are unpretentious and perfect for sharing a lyric. He has a pleasing tenor…
Read MoreHollow Hands are self-described as a cosmic folk band, which doesn’t fall very far from the truth. Their new long-player, Ancestral Lands (October 2015), blends progressive rock and folk rock elements with otherworldly accents to give you a sound that is at once familiar and new. Here on Chariot, you get a taste of that. If you are looking for some sort of an idea of the sound, consider Crosby, Stills and Nash blended with Genesis and the more accessible Jade Warrior bits from…
Read MoreEliza Rickman appeared here not all that long ago with her new video for her 2012 track, Start With Goodbye, Stop With Hello, from her long-player of that same year, O You Sinners. Footnotes For Spring (October 2015), picks up where O You Sinners left off-with both the good and the bad. There’s no denying Eliza Rickman’s beautiful bell-like soprano voice. Her songs are always interesting and fun, but as with O You Sinners, the latest long-player suffers from one…
Read MoreIf you can’t rock out to Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, then there is something absolutely wrong with you. S.O.B. is delightfully irreverent, raucous, energetic and fun, and it is from the band’s self-titled debut long-player (August, 2015). This song reaches into your soul and exposes the real you. The remainder of the long-player is a study in the rich, soulful, bluesy and raw, each song rife with emotion. Truth be told, lead man in this troop Nathaniel…
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