Los Angeles – Small Black may be the most underrated band in indie rock. After crafting two terrific LPs, can the band’s new LP Best Blues finally serve as their breakthrough record? Let’s back track for a moment. On their debut, New Chain, the Brooklyn quartet fell into the genre of chillwave. With lo-fi production
Album Review: Small Black, Limits of Desire
If I were to tell you that today I had a red wine with my fancy seafood platter, any traditionalist might feel confused, aghast, maybe even a little bit betrayed. If I were to tell you that while this feast amassed, I was listening to structurally articulate dreamy synth music, the whole scenario just seems
Album Review: Arrange, New Memory
Sometimes the most beautiful works of art rise from the ashes of pain and suffering. So is the case with Malcom Lacey’s hypnotic, masterful songwriting. Hiding under the moniker “Arrange,” the young bedroom producer released his debut LP, Plantation, last year, followed by this year’s Five Years With The Sun EP and the recently released
New Bands To See At Coachella: Neon Indian
Much has been said about Alan Palomo. Since rising from obscurity to bandblog sensation, his group, Neon Indian has become one of the de facto emissaries/new bands for a movement popularly known as “chillwave”—I’m guessing you’re familiar. To be sure, there are plenty of bands out there that draw parallels to Neon Indian, with woozy