Indie Music Filter: Best Of June 2018 (PLAYLISTS)
Best Of June 2018
Check out new music from Castlebeat, Vansire, Yoke Lore, Phoria and many more. Something for everyone.
Pick your streaming service below and get listening.
Check out new music from Castlebeat, Vansire, Yoke Lore, Phoria and many more. Something for everyone.
Pick your streaming service below and get listening.
Over the past few years, Phoria have become known for their colourful, visually evocative soundscapes with the release of their debut LP Volition (and two EP’s: 2013’s “Bloodworks: and 2014’s “Display”). Top 5’s on Hype Machine, support from BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music followed – along with over 41 million Spotify streams. The band has supported James Vincent McMorrow, Little Dragon, Poliça, Active Child on tour, and made festival appearances at Latitude, Soundwave, Blue Dot, Dot To Dot, The Great Escape and SXSW, where they were named one of NPR’s standout acts in their “Austin 100” class of 2017.
After dropping the early classical-inspired track ‘Mass (Re-Imagined)’ earlier this year, the Brighton five-piece today return with the second offering off their forthcoming sophomore LP, via a double single release “When Everything Was Mine”/”Rrotor” out via X Novo/Akira Records.
“When Everything Was Mine”/”Rrotor” are both deeply emotive, beguiling electronic folk-pop cuts, anchored on a lush, elegant arrangement of softly lulled piano over hypnotic electronics, all layered with ethereal vocals by lead singer/composer Trewin Howard, whose own synesthesia informs the band’s multidimensional aesthetic.
In “When Everything Was Mine,” Howard continues to reject the notion that lyrics have to have conventional narratives. To him, a lyric can be a small self-contained unit of feeling, or a musical texture in the fabric of the song itself. In the track, he takes that concept to its logical extremity, creating a complex emotive musical and thematic idea from a song title alone. In ‘Rrotor’ his aptitude for stacking and mixing vocals like instruments makes for an intriguing and impossible to pin down electronic performances.
Barely keeping up here, but here’s what I managed to put together for the Best Of June.
Check out new music from Rationale, Gypsy & The Cat, Peter Bjorn and John along with IMF newcomers Krief and Maggie Rogers.
Something for everyone. Listen on (Soundcloud) / (Spotify) / (Youtube)
Many more gems on their album Volition.
Can you believe it’s May already? Time flies when you’re listening to good music.
April delivered just like March, with some great new music from Digitalism, NVDES, Phoria, Caveman and Broods, with newcomers RYDER, Romes and The Royal Foundry.
Something for everyone. Listen on (Soundcloud) / (Spotify) / (Youtube)