The Test Drive (Early Album Previews)

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    Forester - Honey I'm Home

    The Test Drive: Forester – Honey I’m Home

    Forester has released his new album titled 'Honey I'm Home'. An album that has that feeling of being artistically full and blossoming as the playlist progresses, 'Honey I'm Home' is a series of testaments and soliloquies from the heart and soul of a musician expressing as such yet still in the learning process himself because, all creative people will tell you learning is a constant process.
    The Jesus Bolt

    The Test Drive: The Jesus Bolt – The Kid Got Electric

    The Jesus Bolt has today released their new collaboration titled 'The Kid Got Electric'. The album is a testament to the duo that is Hazel Winter and Gerard Starkie. Their styles and musicianship blend...
    Karhide

    The Test Drive: Karhide – Abort

    Karhide has today released his new album titled 'Abort'. Darkly electronic with touches of industrial yet all original, Karhide explores the depths of the soul with each track and gives the listener a soundtrack...
    Movment

    The Test Drive: Movment – Transformation

    Movment are set to drop their new album titled 'Transformation' tomorrow (December 2, 2021). A lucid set of darkly techno tracks with a message of non-conformity could be a warning. Could be a prophecy....
    The Hynx - Your Tomorrow

    The Test Drive: The Hynx – Your Tomorrow

    The Hynx has released their new album titled 'Your Tomorrow'. A vivid set of sounds in songs that crash and collide with such vibrance and subtle symphony that the experimentation within the creative process can drop the jaws of those fellow musicians looking for inspiration.
    The Mystery Plan - Thought Bubbles

    The Test Drive: The Mystery Plan – Thought Bubbles

    The Mystery Plan have today released their new album titled 'Thought Bubbles'. Billed as a remix album, this is more like a re-working of such in that the songs are completely different stylistically in some places and visionary in others.
    Brian Bulger

    The Test Drive: Brian Bulger – Dissolve

    Brian Bulger has released his new album titled 'Dissolve'. Brian shows that he is a detailed songwriter with a penchant for the hook and subtle diversity.
    Julian Lamadrid

    The Test Drive: Julian Lamadrid – Rebels of The Neon God

    Julian Lamadrid has released his new album titled 'Rebels of The Neon God'. Right from the start I get this feeling that this is an urban/pop/rock/hybrid concept album, which is a bold move...
    Royvine

    The Test Drive: Royvine – Criminal

    Royvine has today released his new EP titled 'Criminal'. I have to say this first off. This is a fun set of tracks. You have those monster pop hooks that reach out and grab...
    BYSTS

    The Test Drive: BYSTS – Palace

    BYSTS have today released their new album titled 'Palace'. Featuring a diverse set of beautiful noise drenched in originality, 'Palace' is as solid as it is darkly gritty and freedom from musical conformity.
    The Roseline

    The Test Drive: The Roseline – Constancy

    The Roseline has today released their new album titled 'Constancy'. Feeling like an old companion about to accompany you on a long and interesting road trip, 'Constancy' becomes that soundtrack to the adventure and the solace to the loneliness with a set of ten tracks that are as individual as family members coming together after a long time apart.
    Old Tom & the Lookouts

    The Test Drive: Old Tom & the Lookouts – Just for Beasts

    Old Tom & the Lookouts has today released their new album titled 'Just for Beasts'. Feeling like a set of 10 stories, that warmth and home folk style caresses you with the heart of Americana and the soul of the unbridled #indie artist. Each track delivers that individuality of a chapter and the originality of love.
    Limp Bizkit Still Sucks

    The Test Drive: Limp Bizkit – Still Sucks

    Limp Bizkit have returned today with the release of their new album titled 'Still Sucks'. I will just start out with the obvious question because, as of this writing, the album has been out...
    Albert Gold

    The Test Drive: Albert Gold – Patterns

    Albert Gold has today premiered his new EP titled 'Patterns'. 'Patterns' is a bravado mix of electro soul with a stellar vocal mix by Albert himself. Mix in dabs of funk and RnB and you have the beginnings of Albert's signature sound.
    Nervous Vulpis

    The Test Drive: Nervous Vulpis – Still Living

    Nervous Vulpis have today released their new album titled 'Still Living'. Guitar rock for the musically disenfranchised, the guitar signals the anthem and the raucous hooks define each moment, 'Still Living' declares itself 'still fresh' with a new perspective on the alt-rock post-punk attitude and rebellious ingenuity needed to make this the slut of your record collection.
    Lola in Slacks

    The Test Drive: Lola in Slacks – Moon Moth

    Lola in Slacks has released their new album titled 'Moon Moth'. Recorded together as a set of distinct soundscapes, 'Moon Moth' gives the impression of a journey through musical ideas and dreams that cascade...
    Loose Buttons

    The Test Drive: Loose Buttons – What’s On Outside

    Loose Buttons has today released their new album titled 'What's On Outside'. I'll start with a singular description of this album by saying that this is a set of 'travel tracks' What I mean is you get in the car, push play, and simply go.
    JEEN

    The Test Drive: JEEN – Dog Byte

    JEEN today releases her new album 'Dog Byte'. An album that starts with that certain infectiousness and style that screams originality, JEEN is an artist that sticks in your brain and wraps around your rhythm.
    Cedarsmoke

    The Test Drive: Cedarsmoke – Into The Wild World

    Cedarsmoke have officially premiered their new album titled 'Into The Wild World', dropping this Friday (October 22nd).
    K Mak

    The Test Drive: K Mak – K Mak

    K Mak has released her new eponymously titled album. A vivid blend of alt-classical, electro, noise, and pop, K Mak has a bright imagination when it comes to the collective sound of music and genre bending talent of a true virtuoso with sonically mesmerizing hooks and a scored vision of a concept.
    Alphanaut

    The Test Drive: Alphanaut – On Some Planets This Is Pop

    Alphanaut has officially premiered the new album titled 'On Some Planets This Is Pop'. And about f*cking time too! I have been waiting for this album ever since I first saw the video for 'Virtual Love' back in July.
    Plain Mister Smith

    The Test Drive: Plain Mister Smith – The Plain Mister Smith EP

    Plain Mister Smith has today released his new eponymously titled EP. A totally originally styled mash of alt-tracks, this EP delves deeper into the mind of an almost anonymously artist living outside the box and inside his own imagination.
    Business - A Weekend At Finn's

    The Test Drive: Business. – A Weekend At Finn’s

    Jammerzine has premiered the new sophomore EP from Business titled 'A Weekend At Finn's'. A trio of virtuosos from the Gold Coast, Business are all business when it comes to their sound and conjured up a collection of five tracks that will make new fans and take the band to the next level.
    Atmosphere - Word?

    The Test Drive: Atmosphere – Word?

    Atmosphere has released their new album titled 'Word?'. The waiting is over with the new album that was hinted throughout the summer with a set of maxi-singles and videos that culminated in millions of...
    Bronze Nazareth

    The Test Drive: Bronze Nazareth – Ekphrasis

    Bronze Nazareth has released his new album titled 'Ekphrasis'. A solid mix of old school mixtape and modern lyricism, Bronze takes the title word to it's purest definition and creates a landscape of lucid lyrics and powerful reflections to a pure form of beat poetry done in memorable ways.