The Test Drive (Early Album Previews)

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    The KillerHertz - Innocent Sinners

    The Test Drive: The KillerHertz – Innocent Sinners

    The Killerhertz has officially dropped their new EP called 'Innocent Sinners'. Packed with that 'purrfect' smooth and thick set of guitar tones most guitarists spend their whole lives seeking, and combine that with valid...
    Mile Me Deaf - ECCO

    The Test Drive: Mile Me Deaf – ECCO

    Mile Me Deaf has released their new album titled 'Ecco' via Siluh Records. Featuring a much more synthesized and refined sound, Wolfgang Möstl, the mind behind the music, give that signature sound a kick...
    Shishi

    The Test Drive: Shishi – Mafitishei

    Shishi is set to drop their upcoming album titled 'Mafitishei' on July 31, 2020. Compiled as a sort of classic ode to that early eighties hybrid posh pure electro post-modern surf techno in-your-face-in-your-head style,...
    The Test Drive: The Wild Blue - Anonymous Future

    The Test Drive: The Wild Blue – Anonymous Future

    The Wild Blue are set to drop their new album titled 'Anonymous Future' on July 24th. Post-Punk has a fresh perspective with this album in that there is a solid mix of electronic, gritty...
    The Test Drive: Lazaris Pit - Coniphers

    The Test Drive: Lazaris Pit – Coniphers

    The Lazaris Pit has today dropped their new album titled 'Coniphers'. Caught somewhere between home-tooled and home-schooled, The boys of LP give that natural sound a kick in the ass with a wonderfully #indie-purest...
    The Test Drive: Beauty In Chaos - The Storm Before the Calm

    The Test Drive: Beauty in Chaos – The Storm Before The Calm

    Beauty in Chaos is set to drop 'The Storm Before The Calm' tomorrow (May 22, 2020). It would appear that Michael Ciravolo, the curator of Beauty in Chaos, is in the midst of a...
    Delta Maid

    The Test Drive: Delta Maid – Katie

    Delta Maid is set to drop her new album titled 'Katie' on June 5th, 2020. with a soothing and soulful swagger, Delta Maid (a.k.a Katie Foulkes), gives a beautiful set of tracks that seamlessly...
    I Am a Rocketship

    The Test Drive: I Am a Rocketship – Ghost Stories

    I Am a Rocketship have just released their new album titled 'Ghost Stories'. A varied musical journey that covers a beautiful canvas, 'Ghost Stories' offers an insight to that wonderful collective of minds and...
    The Microdance

    The Test Drive: The Microdance – Our Love Noire

    The Microdance are set to drop their new album titled 'Our Love Noire' on June 19, 2020, via Somewherecold Records. And, with this review, we now get the complete picture. The first single, 'Lovesick...
    Tiny Fighter

    The Test Drive: Tiny Fighter – Going Home

    Tiny Fighter has dropped their new album titled 'Going Home'. When I first saw the video for 'Tell Me' last year I got that unique feeling that I was listening to a band that...
    Magnus

    The Test Drive: Magnus – Detachment

    Magnus is set to drop their sophomore effort titled 'Detachment' tomorrow (April 24, 2020). Detachment is an album that, if listened to in order, gives a brilliant perspective of the artists involved. Partly because...
    The Jungle

    The Test Drive: The Jungle – Inferno

    The Jungle is set to drop his new album titled 'Inferno' tomorrow, April 17, 2020. Walking that fine line lyrically between love and obsession, 'Inferno' features the original instrumentation and soulful vocals of the...
    Monks Road Social

    The Test Drive: Monks Road Social – Humanism

    It’s raining outside. The luminescent leaves of Autumn lower their heads and bow to the inevitable. How soon the sun-drenched days and song-filled evenings fade from memory. Except here. It’s different here. Herein lie...
    The Room in The Wood

    The Test Drive: The Room in The Wood – We’re The Martians, Now

    The Room in The Wood has officially dropped their full monty in the form of their new album titled 'We're The Martians, Now' via A Turntable Friend Records. Featuring a more diverse and introspective...
    Victor DeLorenzo

    The Test Drive: Victor DeLorenzo – Tranceaphone

    Victor DeLorenzo has released his new EP titled 'Tranceaphone'. Originally the drummer for Violent Femmes, Victor clearly steps into the light and makes his musical mark on the world with a varied set of...
    The Mystery Plan

    The Test Drive: The Mystery Plan – Zsa Zsa

    The Mystery Plan have just released their new album titled 'Zsa Zsa' today! With this new album, The Mystery Plan gives that initial impression that they are a true jam band. Think Camper Van...
    TIA

    The Test Drive: TIA – TIA

    Hot on the heels of the unveiling of her debut single Coke & Mentos last month, Sydney singer-songwriter Tia Beale’s debut five-track EP, TIA, has just hit streaming sites, with a physical CD release,...
    Mayflower Madame

    The Test Drive: Mayflower Madame – Prepared For A Nightmare

    Mayflower Madame digitally dropped their new album titled 'Prepared For A Nightmare' on March 27th. Collectively sounding like a glorious concept album, 'Prepared For A Nightmare' is a solid set with a signature sound...
    Loveblind

    The Test Drive: Loveblind – Sleeping Visions

    Loveblind has officially released their new album titled 'Sleeping Visions'. Further expanding on the themes and soundscapes that were hinted at on the previous releases such as 'War Paint' and 'Daydreams', Loveblind shows a...
    Baby Chaos

    The Test Drive: Baby Chaos – Ape Confronts Cosmos

    Glasgow five-piece Baby Chaos return with a buzz, a bang and a battalion of hooks on their new album, 'Ape Confronts Cosmos'. The band have produced a bi-polar behemoth which throws monstrous riffs at...
    Destijl

    The Test Drive: Destijl – Greatest Hits Vol 2

    Destijl will release their new album titled 'Greatest Hits Vol 2' on April 16, 2020. Formed in 1995 by Mancunian John Cleary and his French pal Pascal DeStijl, DeStijl released their acclaimed debut album...
    Watch Clark

    The Test Drive: Watch Clark – Backscatter Effect

    Watch Clark delivers a solid set of tracks in the form of his new EP titled 'Backscatter Effect'. While this may be something to tide the masses over until the next full-length album, 'Backscatter...
    Search and Seizure

    The Test Drive: Search and Seizure – Outer Space

    Search and Seizure drops their new album titled 'Outer Space' right here on Jammerzine. The Kansas City natives go global in sound with a sound that defines the band as well as it gains an audience. Perfect resonance in each track that sonically grabs your attention not just with the content but with the mix. 'Outer Space' is an album designed for those big stereos so please don't do it an injustice by settling for earbuds. Each song cranks and stands on its own so good luck guessing the next single. There is no filler here.
    Jonny Polonsky

    The Test Drive: Jonny Polonsky – Kingdom of Sleep

    Tomorrow (March 6), Jonny Polonsky will release his latest album titled 'Kingdom of Sleep'. The album is as diverse as it is inspiring, in so many ways. From the first note of the intro...
    Didit Saad (guitar), Elda Suryani (vocal). Photo by Robby Suharlim

    The Test Drive: Stars and Rabbit – Rainbow Aisle

    Stars and Rabbit have just released their new album titled 'Rainbow Aisle'. Already in contention for one of our 'albums of the year' mention at the end of this year, Stars and Rabbit are...