The Test Drive: KINGZMN – Where Do We Go From Here?
KINGZMN have released their new album titled 'Where Do We Go From Here?'. R&B by design and original by default, 'Where Do We Go From Here' mixes elements of the creative hook and electro-pop style into a mashup of sounds and sonic landscapes
The Test Drive: The Ampersands – Happy To Be Here
The Ampersands have released their new album titled 'Happy To Be Here'. This album starts off with that distinctive personality that drives the base of your neck to do that one thing when you hear good music and keeps doing that until you realize you look like an asshole for doing it in a crowd full of people.
The Test Drive: Crystal Drake – Sirens
Crystal Drake has released her new album titled 'Sirens'. Pop as a standard has come and go as the years progress and can quickly become stale if not done right.
The Test Drive: Queen’s Pleasure – Words To Live By, Suits To Die In.
Queen's Pleasure are set to release their new album titled 'Words To Live By, Suits To Die In.' on September 10th on Bloomer Records. That classic garage band sound for the modern era with...
The Test Drive: Brigitte Bardini – Stellar Lights
Brigitte Bardini has released her new and debut album titled 'Stellar Lights'. For a first outting into the void that is music, this is solid, to say the least. Already on her way to...
The Test Drive: Dana Plato – Wrong Quotes
Dana Plato is set to drop their new album ‘Wrong Quotes’ in physical form on September 16th. An audio experiment set to album.
The Test Drive: Ivy Mor – Milestones
Ivy Mor has released her new album titled 'Milestones'. A bit of Americana with a bookended autobiographical tinge throughout, Ivy captures moments of her life with sonic precision and lyrical clarity and a lush...
The Test Drive: Dakota Jones – Black Light
Dakota Jones has today released their new album titled 'Black Light'. As if created during the highlight of the music era, right down to using a tube mixing board, Dakota Jones captures a feeling...
The Test Drive: Occurrence – I Have So Much Love to Give
Occurrence has today released their new album titled 'I Have So Much to Give'. Just two days from our premiere of their last video 'My Eternal Autumn', the rest of the story finally unfolds.
The Test Drive: Me, I’m Counting – MACAU
Me, I'm Counting is set to release his new EP titled 'MACAU' tomorrow (August 20th). While the titled track builds that slow grind of musical suspense it drives forth into what you would think...
The Test Drive: Glenn Hodge Banned – The Long Run
Glenn Hodge Banned will release his new album titled 'The Long Run' this Friday (August 20th). At that first listen, 'Long Run' gives the impression of an alt-folk with a tinge of soul, but...
The Test Drive: Austin Markham – Me.
Austin Markham has today released his new EP titled 'Me.'. Written from a personal angle, the deep inside most of us refuse to tread, Austin does it with a suave and swagger found in...
The Test Drive: Intergalactic Brasstronauts – Music For The People
Intergalactic Brasstronauts have released their new album titled 'Music For The People'. Part Ska, part Big Band, all original. You get a sense of atmosphere on 'Music For The People' from a group that...
The Test Drive: The Star Prairie Project – Rudiger’s Revenge
The Star Prairie Project are set to drop their new album titled 'Rudiger's Revenge' on August 6th. A smart evolution from their previous album 'Surreal', this time around the songs are diverse in...
The Test Drive: koleżanka – Place Is
koleżanka has released her new album titled 'Place Is'. Dark in places, electronic in others, and deep in all, 'Place Is' is a journey easy on the ears and diligent in providing those original, sometimes brilliantly awkward hooks with an almost freeform style in the vein of old school jazz musicians.
The Test Drive: Timothy and The Apocalypse – Future So Bright
Timothy and the Apocalypse have released the new album titled 'Future So Bright'. That first initial listen gave me that unique impression that this is a score to a film yet to be made.
The Test Drive: Badison – Out of Nowhere
Badison has today released her debut album titled 'Out of Nowhere'. Glimmering pop and smart pop-sensibility, Badison punches a whole in the sky with this set of songs that sounds like they are from someone who has been in the game a lot longer than she has been.
The Test Drive: Dzang – Glacial Erratic
Dzang (aka L.A. producer and musician Adam Gunther) has today released his new EP titled 'Glacial Erratic. Cinematic and orchestral upon that first listen, their is a set of moods brought forth in the...
The Test Drive: José Junior – Yo No Soy Marinero
José Junior has today released his new EP titled 'Yo No Soy Marinero'. With such a diverse musical and geographical background, its little surprise that this album turned out the way it did. Inspirational...
The Test Drive: The Black Watch – Led Zeppelin Five Remastered 10th Anniversary Edition
The Black Watch have today reissued their album titled 'Led Zeppelin Five Remastered 10th Anniversary Edition' on ATOM Records. Originally released in 2011, the tenth anniversary reminds of of how timeless music can be as this holds relevance as much today as it did a decade ago. And, imagining all the changes to the world in the last ten years, that's saying a lot.
The Test Drive: Joel Ansett – I Should Get Some Rest
Joel Ansett has today premiered his new EP titled 'I Should Get Some Rest'. From the hear that is worn on the sleeve comes songs of introspection and reflection with a touch of regret and remorse. Of what is up to the listener, yet Joel speaks of personal weariness and longing. And that is what makes this collection of songs all the more personal.
The Test Drive: My Autumn Amor – Quiet Girl
My Autumn Amor has officially premiered his new album titled 'Quiet Girl'. When we reviewed the title single in May, we got a glimpse of what could be. Now we have the whole picture,...
The Test Drive: Model M – Evil
Model M has released his new album titled 'Evil'. Dark and to the point with an emphasis on musically erratic, 'Evil' cuts to the chase with a hard edge and no bullshit or filler....
The Test Drive: KPT – Obliterate
KPT has today released the new album titled 'Obliterate'. Featuring a dark and somewhat dystopian sound overall, 'Obliterate' is an industrial opus filled with dissolution and interpretations of dark emotions. The stark noise is...
The Test Drive: Evidence – Unlearning Vol 1
Evidence has today released his new album 'Unlearning Vol 1' via Rhymesayers Entertainment. I could say something easy like 'this record is groundbreaking', but, that would be a bit dismissive and cliché.