#alt-pop

If you paid attention to our pages in the past couple of months, then you probably stumbled upon Reetoxa, an outstanding music outlet based in Melbourne, Australia. Helmed by Jason McKee, an exceptional songwriter and musician, this project delivers everything you dearly love about all sorts of rock music. Depending on the song’s mood and ambiance, you may stumble upon everything from punk rock…

Standing up to conventionality in music, swimming against the titanic (and still growing) wave that is humanity’s monoculture gets more difficult, I imagine, as one gets older. An artist is more tempted by the ways of the industry. They lose that youthful sense of rebellious indignation, the drive to be different. In that vein Rodrigo Cuevas’ third is a further dilution of the sound he drove on the first two Manuals; what was previous pop transformed by Asturian folk now sees the latter far more subsumed into contemporary conventions of the former. Much of Manual de belleza is still far more progressive, colourful and diverse than most pop. It just isn’t as much as previous releases. 

Fierce Friend is back with another fine piece of sonic artistry that will immediately end up on your indie playlist. After “Blood Red Hills,” an excellent composition that we wrote a couple of months back, and “Make Me Forget,” a song that certainly deserves your utmost attention, this Brighton-based artist is back with a song that brings everything you dearly love about modern and retro indie…