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Album Review: Nancy - The Seven Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues

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The Seven Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues is a brand new mini lp album by British  Band Nancy, It was released on January 15, 2021, Nancy blends together electronic  enthusiasm, hysterical misfits like rupture of rock energy, and they're most sullen to create an eerie experimental glam psychedelic rock sound, and with nancy diverse vocals channeling Stu from king gizzard in some tracks, also the singer has a strong baritone singing voice,  how stellar of an album this is. This, however, is not a critique of the album itself,     I must say I was completely blown away from the first listen, It is different sounding.  The tracks grow on you after the immediately liked clic clac track  ,  No bad tracks on this superb rock album. the opening  self-titled  track has an MGMT TRex glam indie rock vibe,  I like that distortion, subversion of what sounds like a long lost glam classic. I rate this album 10/10. 7 Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues (mini-LP) by Nancy

Album Review: Midnight Sister- Painting The Roses

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Painting The Roses is the second full-length studio album by Californian Duo Midnight Star. It was released on January 15, 2021.  Midnight Sister, multi-disciplinary LA artists Juliana Giraffe and Ari Balouzian make motion pictures. Yes, sometimes with moving images but most often only with the music, they create together.   'Painting the Roses' is a story told through the looking glass, one where we examine ourselves in a funhouse mirror but find clarity in its twists. Giraffe traveled to visit family in Argentina during the making of the album and reconnected greatly with that part of her family history, art, and culture.   a  subtly baroque pop mixture of art pop with amazing arrangements, It  has a slow, sweltering surf-tango to it, like Dick Dale doing Carlos Gardel. And even though the song was inspired by Giraffe's reconnection with Argentina,  G lam antics and dark disco dramatics,  it's a beautiful thing to see the artistic descendants of Kate Bush and David Bo

Album Review: Viagra Boys- Welfare Jazz

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Welfare Jazz is the second full-length studio album by   Swedish Post-Punk Band,  Viagra Boys.  Viagra Boys have made a name for themselves playing stages around the world.  The entire band works together to make the whole greater than the sum. I can't remember when I liked a sax player this much, sounds different than anyone else.  I can't get enough of this album. In fact, I've been trying to tie each tune to an influence.    So far I'm sure about Nick Cave, Mark Sandman, Bill Callahan, Iggy Pop, Jon Spencer; but there a few others I'm trying to pinpoint.   This is the album Iggy Pop wishes he made.  Their  notched  and  bizarre eccentric  approach to the rock genre balances dark  hilarity  and  abrupt unpredicted   sensation  with the kind of  menacing  edge that is sadly  misplaced  from  the majority of music  nowadays . As one of the second album releases of this new year, the Viagra Boys have set the bar high. who received a ton of buzz from their first recor

Album Review: Anavitoria - Cor

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Cor ( English: "color")   is the fourth full-length studio album by  Brazilian group Anavitoria, it was released  by surprise on January 1, 2021.  I came across the duo,  Anavitoria  a while ago with their self-titled release from 2017.  I' ve always loved Brazilian music (especially good old MPB).  many popular Brazilian musicians just seem to be recreating trends that started in the U.S. This is a travesty, considering that I don't know a culture more reliant on music than in Brazil. Anyway, yeah, Anavitoria just sounded like a combination of some pretty bland trends in folk-pop indie music but in the Portuguese Language. Cor  is a more focused effort than before, the soundscapes are much bolder and more "soft-rock" than ever. Which really works for the duo. Instead of some of the painfully tame pop ballads on some of their other albums, the duo is creating some cinematic folk soft-rock bangers that I can get behind.  stepping towards a more defined artist