Tag: The Test Drive
The Test Drive: Victory Kicks – High Wires
"High Wires" is the new ten track LP from London based Victory Kicks. What's drawing me to this album the most at the moment is the stylistic diversity of each track in comparison to...
The Test Drive: Various – Rock Back For Nepal Volume 1
Nothing speaks the true nature of an artist like giving ones art for a good cause. And in "Rock Back For Nepal Volume 1" we have 17 artists who do just that. But like...
The Test Drive: Tits, Tats and Whiskers – Laugh, Dance, and Cry
Tits, Tats and Whiskers new album, "Laugh, Dance, and Cry" is one raucous track after another. The only way I can describe it is that one kid in class that will bring the most...
The Test Drive: Absent Sound – Black Dots
If I could describe Absent Sound it would be a cross between Sigur Rós and a really good meal. And this is a good complement in my opinion because Sigur Rós is a groundbreaking...
The Test Drive: Jasmine Cain – White Noise
"White Noise", the new album from bassist/vocalist Jasmine Cain is anything but white noise in my opinion. A raucous set of rock tunes with no filler, "White Noise" is something you would want to...
The Test Drive: Everyone But Me – Everyone But Me
"Everyone But Me" is the new cassette coming out this week by Ohio Shoegaze, Dream Pop duo of Nick Bain, Jason Grady known as Everyone But Me. A well textured ambient yet catchy set of...
The Test Drive: The Vendettas – Bystander and Destroyer
The new album from The Vendettas, "Bystander and Destroyer" is a purely infectious romp from start to finish. Rarely can I say this but there is absolutely no filler in this album whatsoever. The...
The Test Drive: Atombomb – Limited Edition Cassette
Anyone remember cassettes? If you grew up in the '80s like I did they were a staple of any music loving teen. I loved my cassette collection. I even remember that each label's cassette...
The Test Drive: Alex Wellkers – What
Alex Wellkers is a songwriter in a true sense of the word. All 5 tracks of his upcoming album, "What" contain everything needed to make a strong song. Good chord progression...check. Hook...check. Melody...check. In...
The Test Drive: Terra – Couldn’t Save This
When I first heard Terra's "Couldn't Save This" EP my initial reaction was that this is an interpretation of something Hunter S. Thompson was was trying to get on paper as he and his cohort...
The Test Drive: Armonite – The Sun is New Each Day
Armonite are an infectious prog rock masterpiece in the form of a band. In the wake of the death of Chris Squire it is comforting to know that this form of audio art will...
The Test Drive: Seconds/JOYA – Split LP
Soft Power Records are delighted to announce their next release, which is a split vinyl LP by Glasgow band SECONDS and London band JOYA. The twelve track LP will be released on 01 /...
The Test Drive: Skellums – Clarion Call EP
Skellums was formed because "there was nothing else left to do".
The band strive to produce music with dignity and meaning rather than aspiring to join the long list of bands who have success, but...
The Test Drive: Hackmonocut – The Sum of My Parts
This is a brooding, haunting and eclectic masterpiece. Imagine the directorial talents of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick being sucked into a translation matrix and coming out as music. That is Hackmonocut.
About Hackmonocut:
The dark...
The Test Drive: Matthew Anderson – Lunar Tide
I'm not going to beat around the bush. This album is brilliant. It has all of the pop sensibility mixed with Avant-garde jazz and a free-form sense of reckless creative abandon that almost makes...
The Test Drive: The Pinstripe Pigeon Band – Sound Asleep
The Pinstripe Pigeon Band began as a modest, yet ambitious studio project, incorporating production values inspired by Jon Hopkins, Nile Rogers and Cut Chemist, but this quickly developed into a seven-strong pop force, releasing...
The Test Drive: Maff – Maff EP
Maff bring something new and refreshing to the musical scene, despite the fact that they are based as far as you can get from its "hub", but that is perhaps why their music can...
The Test Drive: Papertowns – With you In Mind
Papertowns. is a 5-piece rock band that stems from all types of musical background's. Formed in 2012, originally as a hardcore band, they released one EP titled, Passion/Aggression in May of 2013. They toured...
The Test Drive: Robin Guthrie and Mark Gardener – Universal Road
Universal Road is the new album by Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and Mark Gardener (Ride). Their former bands' work ought to give hints as to where a collaboration between the pair might lead, but...
The Test Drive: Sanctum – Rot
In 2008 Sanctum released their critically acclaimed debut album "In Harm's Way" (Metalcast Records) in Europe, U.S.A. and Canada, produced by Grammy award winning recording engineer Carl Vikman. The opening track “Dead Inside” got...
The Test Drive: Rodney Cromwell – Age of Anxiety
Rodney Cromwell is releasing his debut LP 'Age of Anxiety' on Happy Robots Records, introducing the modern electronic lover to some epic retro future synth music. Strongly influenced by artists such as OMD, New...
The Test Drive: Mardi Belle – Beautiful Tuesday
This is the debut EP from Indiana alternative rock band Mardi Belle. The album was recorded in 2014 at Arkbarn with Ryan Koch at the console. The album features a garage rock tinged alternative...
The Test Drive: Malkasian – Malkasian
This album features 8 studio tracks and two live acoustic cuts. Recorded in a bedroom with two mics by Malkasian with help from Nick Gray, frontman of Florida alternative rock band Noiseheads. The album...
The Test Drive: Rum Thief – Reach For the Weatherman
Rum Thief is solo artist Jot Green with support from his band, based in Chorlton, Manchester. The project began when Green, after playing as a drummer in bands for over ten years, decided to...
The Test Drive: Strains – Redefine[d]
Strains are a brand new modern metal / hardcore act hailing from Opglabbeek, Belgium. Although the group consists of really young members (most of them born in 1993), they’ve already toured Europe multiple times...