Tag: The Test Drive
The Test Drive: Big Tide – Sync or Swim
Ben Thomas is a thinking man's songwriter. With music history at his side and originality at the center, creativity comes full circle with his project, Big Tide, and his new album titled 'Sync or...
The Test Drive: Gary Daly – Gone From Here
Gary Daly, a founding member of the British band, China Crisis will release his debut solo album 'Gone From Here' on 31st May 2019. The twelve track album will be available to purchase on...
The Test Drive: San Pedro – The Demon Sessions
San Pedro is the brainchild of Rikki Turner, ex-lead singer of seminal Mancunian Electro/Indie band Paris Angels and more recently The New Southern Elektrik and The Hurt.
The name 'San Pedro' comes from Rikki's love...
The Test Drive: Earnhardt – Earnhardt
Earnhardt delivers a solidly consistent set of tracks in their eponymously titled sophomore effort. Written and recorded more like a set of songs meant to travel with you down that highway of open land...
The Test Drive: Amo Amo – Amo Amo
Succulent, sultry, soulful, and sensual. I could go on and on but within the first few bars of the opening track, 'Closer to You', I was hooked in the emotional documentation combined with the...
The Test Drive: Tiago Frúgoli Ensemble – Casa
Tastemaker record label Fresh Selects (known for debuting the likes of SiR, Kadhja Bonet, and Charlotte Dos Santos) now introduce Brazilian keyboardist, beatmaker, and composer Tiago Frúgoli, with the April 18th release of Casa...
The Test Drive: Marty Willson-Piper – Hanging Out In Heaven
After an almost two-decade-long wait for a vinyl release, the wait is over. The fifth solo album from legendary guitarist/singer/songwriter Marty Willson-Piper will get a very public release this Record Store Day (Saturday, April...
The Test Drive: Gone Cosmic – Sideways In Time
Gone Cosmic is my new example of a perfect jam band. The evidence is clear in their new album titled 'Sideways In Time'. There is that utter excitement one gets when you listen to...
The Test Drive: Ernest Moon – Ba-jesus
An absolute mix of rough and raucous punk and straight up rock, Ernest Moon release their new EP titled 'Ba-jesus' in all of its dirty glory. Each track stands on its own in its...
The Test Drive: Pinhdar – Pinhdar
Drenched in a grandiose style of aural beauty and a lucid orchestral style of originality, Pinhdar's new eponymous album is a musical soliloquy of vivid colors and striking notes combined to make an ethereal-istically...
The Test Drive: From Carbon – Existence
From Carbon are an Indie band from Manchester, England. Formed 5 years ago, the band has developed a creative sound and a great live reputation.
They released their debut album 'Wealth' in 2014 to critical...
The Test Drive: Susan James – Sea Glass
For the last decade or so, the SoCal-born-and-raised James has been releasing solo albums that span Folk, Country, Pop, Rock, ethnological and gently experimental realms, an intriguingly mixed bag of music that marked her...
The Test Drive: The Claim – Boomy Tella
They say that good things come to those who wait. For those who have waited over thirty years, this will be extremely good. This is the vinyl and CD release of 'Boomy Tella', the...
The Test Drive: Fred Abong – Pulsing
Somewhere between the clarity of alt-folk and the grittiness of underground rock lies Fred Abong. Fred is somewhat of an enigma within the music world releasing music here and there. But that music is...
The Test Drive: Hafdis Huld – Variations
Hafdis Huld is an Icelandic singer with an international fan-base in over 65 countries. Her songs have more than 11.5 million Spotify streams, are on numerous compilations and advertising campaigns across Europe. She’s had...
The Test Drive: ihatezacky – in.case.i.don’t.wake.up
Zachariah Storm AKA ihatezacky was the lead singer of Grunge/Hardcore band The Flesh Velvet who managed to play all over the UK & Europe, his influences include Marilyn Manson, Suicideboys , Korn, Eminem, Dr. Dre...
The Test Drive: Tito Montana – Why Not Me? 2.0
From his debut release in 2014, when the premiere of 'Miracle', produced by Just Blaze appeared on MTV and BET Jams, receiving numerous positive reviews from several renowned sites (The Source, The Hype Magazine,...
The Test Drive: Thurston Moore and Tom Surgal – Klangfarbenmelodie.. And The Colorist Strikes...
While some say there is madness in the music, others can say there is music in the madness. Whichever you agree with, one thing is for sure; Thurston Moore is a mind behind the...
The Test Drive: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – In The House...
With a sheer multitude of musical styles and socialistic genres seamlessly meshing into a sordid melting pot of creative debauchery, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult retains the flag of anarchy among the masses...
The Test Drive: Skylephant – Songs For The Fragile Collective
On paper, this shouldn’t work. A fifty-something geezer from England locks himself away in his tiny home studio for three and a half years, to pour his soul into an album of self-penned songs.
The Test Drive: Mark Mathews – Fizzy Beasts
Mark Mathews, has been described as, arguably the hardest working solo artist in the UK right now, and it is no wonder why. His continued commitment to tour across the UK and the globe,...
The Test Drive: Desert Ships – Eastern Flow
Following critically received debut album ‘Doll Skin Flag’ in 2012, and EP ‘Skyliner’ in 2014, Desert Ships release their second album ‘Eastern Flow’ on March 1st, 2019. Mixed by Mark Gardener (of resurgent shoegaze...
The Test Drive: The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show – Oh Me Oh Mi
'Oh Me Oh Mi', the latest outing from The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show, is definitely made for that hip audiophile with a penchant for alt-country with a hidden pleasure for post-punk. The tracks are a unique...
The Test Drive: Kristin Hersh – Possible Dust Clouds
Kristin Hersh delivers a gritty and beautifully sublime collection of songs in the form of 'Possible Dust Clouds'. The clarity of acoustic is less pronounced with layers of guitars of varying dirt and a...
The Test Drive: Moist – Lavine
Dreamy and immersive, one can get absolutely lost in the world that Moist has created with the new album titled 'Lavine'. David Elfström Lilja, aka Moist, delves into an almost cinematic gaze with each and...