Blushh’s first EP was titled It’s Fine, and THX 4 ASKING (typeset in all caps, mind you) is its brisk sequel. Lead vocalist and guitarist Shab Ferdowsi coaches herself through a terminated social contract by sweating the small stuff, confidence serving as a counterpoint to raw emotion....
MIGHTY calls to mind Portugal. The Man on their self-titled full-length. The parallels don’t just end at the strange typesettings of both bands, but in the genesis of their latest works. The latter’s 2017 LP, Woodstock, came about after scrapping an entire song cycle after frontman John...
Hadley, Massachusetts’ Snowhaus began as a four-piece in 2015, but has trimmed its ranks to two in the release of their first LP, They Don’t End Pretty. That title isn’t a reference to those departed members — in fact, they still show up on some of these 10 tracks. Instead, this...
On paper, Hartford, Connecticut doesn’t seem like the most fertile arts community. Sure, the Mark Twain House is a popular tourist attraction and three members of Toto call Hartford a hometown, but it appears largely overlooked when compared to behemoths like Boston and Philadelphia. When zeroing in on the University...
There’s a point in Everything Dies, the second album from Walford, UK’s Nervus, where Em Foster thinks her life might start at 29. It’s on lead single “Sick Sad World,” a tangled mess of guitar leads and a narrator who’s unreliable only because she has a “melted...
Photo Credit: Valley Taylor Derek Ted’s music has a certain warmth that seems, upon first listen, to be at odds with the words that accompany it. His hidden thoughts mixtape, pieced together via iPhone voice memos and four-track recording, warbles with lo-fi earthiness within a cloudy headspace....
