Though not all uncommon for dance music, the extended intro to Studio Apartment’s “Stay” comes as a welcome change from the blog-addled mindset that if something doesn’t connect immediately, you should hit the “next” button on the Yahoo! music player until you find something that does. The back-and-forth beat ushering in this track works as…
Well, this is vaguely creepy. Considering he makes dubstep and put the word “Goth” in his name, hearing a song by Goth-Trad that’s reminiscent of taking a stroll alone down a dark alley at 3 A.M. shouldn’t be too shocking. Yet even working on this assumption, “Cosmos” sounds especially lonely. The clip available at his…
Hotel Mexico’s debut album His Jewelled Letter Box hits stores today, and if you aren’t convinced by the hype to get it, maybe one more new song will. “Do You Do You HAIA” should probably be one of chillwave proponents first examples when claiming Ariel Pink somehow birthed the genre, with the caveat that this…
A Transparent Girl manages to navigate between two worlds. The duo float in squiggly orbit on “Like Reich’s Pulse,” shimmering synths constantly interrupted by glitchy vocals. Midway through, though, the song blooms into something new, a bouncy melody that transforms the same vocal skippings into something catchy. Despite this outro, the track boasts an air…
Didn’t White Scooper hear, Inception’s the new Sci-Fi buzz film! Bah-duh deeesh! Sorry, I’ll show myself out, but not before writing a little about this demo. Various vocal samples that sound like they were taken from news broadcasts sit at the center of “Matrix,” some unknown lady talking about “Matrix films” while also mentioning murder…