The Test Drive (Early Album Previews)

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    Perseide - The Only Thing

    The Test Drive: Perseide – The Only Thing

    Perseide has released their new album titled 'The Only Thing'. Modern styles of Metal have varied in both quality and consistency for over a decade now. But, what we get here with Perseide, is...
    Inhaler Collective

    The Test Drive: Inhaler Collective – Hunger

    Inhaler Collective have released their new album titled 'Hunger'. That initial listen gives that smooth underground jazz club with a smokey room and a malt scotch in a short glass. Adding to the flavor...
    Atta Boy - Big Heart Manners

    The Test Drive: Atta Boy – Big Heart Manners

    Atta Boy has released their new album titled 'Big Heart Manners'. The album is an explosion of Alt-Americana and a splash of Indie and a slight trace of Country in a beautiful melting pot...
    Jabbawoki - Something's Cookin'

    The Test Drive: Jabbawoki – Something’s Cookin’

    Jabbawoki has released their new album titled 'Something's Cookin''. Harking to the days when jam-bands truly jammed, Jabbawocki delivers an improvisationally infused original rock-packed set of varied power-punches that inspire musicians as much as...
    Wolfhounds - Electric Music

    The Test Drive: Wolfhounds – Electric Music

    Wolfhounds have released their new album titled 'Electric Music'. The album is more than I expected while listening to the lead single 'Can't See the Light'. What we get here is a diversity in...
    Union Kain - Black Dawn

    The Test Drive: Union Kain – Black Dawn

    Union Kain is set to drop their new album titled 'Black Dawn' on July 18, 2020. Partly an homage to the classic metal sound that most new bands never get right, and partly a...
    Felixity - Love Sick Remixed

    The Test Drive: Felixity – Love Sick Remixed

    Felixity has released her album of remixes titled 'Love Sick' Remixed. To go back and re-examine an album can be a daunting task. Hit or miss even. But what we get here is an...
    Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons

    The Test Drive: Lorraine Leckie – Razor Wing Butterfly

    Lorraine Leckie officially drops her new album with Her Demons titled 'Razor Wing Butterfly'.  Starting off with the track titled 'Only Darkness' was a perfect choice, in my opinion, because it sets such a...
    Fly Stoner Motive

    The Test Drive: Fly Stoner Motive – Rookie of the Year

    Independent artist Fly Stoner Motive released a new album titled 'Rookie of the Year', a testament to his music career humble beginnings. Taking a different approach than his other projects, Motive omitted all features...
    The Academy of Sun - The Quiet Earth

    The Test Drive: The Academy of Sun – The Quiet Earth

    The Academy of Sun has officially released their new album titled 'The Quiet Earth'. Epic in scope and broad in vision, 'The Quiet Earth' could, years from now, be considered The Academy of Sun's...
    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...