NEW & NOTABLE: KASSI VALAZZA (USA) – CHINO (SINGLE)
Portland based singer songwriter Kassi Valazza recently released her super impressive new single ‘Chino’. It’s delicate yet expansive affair, an instructively powerful and spacious mixture of western inspired country and tinges of psych rock. As bruising and self aware as it is wistful and warmly nostalgic, the track will appear on her forthcoming debut album […]
BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT’S SINGLE OF RESISTANCE; DEBUT ALBUM OUT TODAY
Portland based Swinomish artist Katherine Paul aka Black Belt Eagle Scout, today releases her powerful debut album Mother Of My Children. Thus far she has shared three singles, ‘Soft Stud’, ‘Never Lie Down’ with the latest being the ever-knowing delicately defiant glow of ‘Indians Never Die’. It’s partly the celebration of the resistance and survival […]
A MONTH IN THE LIFE OF CHROMATICS
A couple of days back Chromatics released an eight track vinyl only EP, Camera which sold out in less than 48 hours. It relates to Dear Tommy in the same way as the ‘Just Like You’ and ‘Shadow’ EP’s did. For those who missed a copy the good news is that on Tuesday, a white […]
FLOATING ROOM ANNOUNCE FALSE BAPTISM & SHARE VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE “SEASHELL”
Portland lo-fi shoegaze/dream pop outfit Floating Room have announced the upcoming release of their infectiously varied new album False Baptism. To mark the occasion they’ve shared a hazy sun soaked video to accompany the release of complex lead single ‘Seashell’. The track is a sprawling layered mix of dreamy but edgy guitar work from co-founders […]
GROUPER’S BRIEF BUT COMPLETE GRID OF POINTS
Grid Of Points, brief in length but rich in substance, is the deep and meditative new album by Grouper, the long time project of Liz Harris. For six and half songs and 19 minutes, just Harris’ voice, her piano, the creak of its pedal and an enveloping recording hiss do quite battle with the silence […]
RECORD REVIEW: FAUSTINA MASIGAT (USA) – FAUSTINA MASIGAT
To pick apart and critically examine the beliefs you once trusted and firmly embraced and let go of all the ambitions you developed from and with them is one of the most difficult decisions anyone can undertake. It takes courage and humility to admit the path you been on is the wrong one and even […]
THE PRIDS UNVEIL VIDEO FOR SUMMER CULT
Portland quartet The Prids have unveiled their exquisitely shot new video for ‘Summer Cult’, the dark yet shimmering second single and opening cut from their upcoming album Do I Look Like I’m In Love. The video, while beautifully toned in its golden hues and delightfully self-aware is an almost satirical take on the forlorn search for […]
THE PRIDS SHARE FIRST TRACK + VIDEO FROM FROM LONG AWAITED NEW ALBUM
Photo taken from She Shreds Magazine Long standing Portland based quartet The Prids have just released a new video for ‘Do I Look Like I’m In Love’, the first single from their forthcoming ultra-impressive and long awaited fourth album of the same name. Now into their third decade, it’s their first long player since the release […]
BODY-SAN FINDS PACIFIC REASONS
Kansas City and now Portland based producer Body-san is set to drop his new EP Pacific Reasons later this week. Overall, it’s a funky, sonically bulbous yet chilled out affair with Brandon Knocke conjuring up dream like states the like of which is no better in evidence than on meditative ’Central Casting’. Listen to the […]
LITTLE STAR’S SELF TITLED DEBUT
Portland DIY outfit Little Star are set to release their self titled debut album later this week. The frenetic opening track, ‘Mood’ scored a video today. Watch that below and listen to the the whole album streaming over at Gold Flake Paint right now. It’s a multifarious affair that boasts careful and canny songwriting and […]