altpop
Album Review : Arthur Melo – ‘Mirantes Emocionais’ : a dazzling alt pop escapade from the Brazilian guitarist and composer.
In the same way that last year Bala Dejeso and Ana Frango Elétrico swung the spotlight back on the wild creativity of the Brazilian pop scene, 2024 looks like it’s facing a repeat. Alongside the whispers of the enigmatic Sessa, gathering a new album together, there’s another name filtering through to the surface, the multi-talented …
Track: jnr. unveils genre-bending brilliance in hypnotic ‘4days/4nights’
Eora/Sydney-based artist jnr. has unveiled his latest enigmatic single, ‘4DAYS/4NIGHTS‘, following on from a massive 2023, with a whopping six singles, multiple features and remixes as well as a support slot for Last Dinosaurs. ‘4DAYS/4DAYS’ emerges with jnr.’s vocoded vocals, casting a futuristic spell over pulsating beats and atmospheric synths. The infectious rhythm drives the …
Track: Bellatrix fashions toxic romance into alt.pop silk with ‘Bad Love’
SHE’S got one of those brilliantly tonally expressive voices, which skips up and down the register with easy fluidity, flowing through the notes in the way Bjork does; but then, she knows a thing or two about leftfield vocal expression, being a former beatboxing world champion. The artist we’re talking about? Bellatrix, who plies a …
SEE: Slow Pulp – ‘Idaho’: graceful and languid guitar pop
I MEAN, as if the depredations of the coronavirus weren’t enough; try having the year that Emily Massey, singer-guitarist of Wisconsin-formed, Chicago-based, languid guitar venturers Slow Pulp has just lived through. Off the back of their Big Day EP – their fifth release, but their first venture into the physical format, they began work on …
SEE: No Age – ‘Smoothie Kings’: abstract shapes and lofi beauty
UNORTHODOX former Sub Pop noiseniks No Age have got through some virusy distribution teething troubles and finally their new album Goons Be Gone, their second for new housekeepers Drag City, is out in the world. And in celebration the duo, Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt, have released a rather lovely, abstract and colourful video …