Slipped Discs

Piroshka - Love Drips and Gathers

Cosmopolitan cotton-candy covering engaging phrases with trippy riffs and percussive muscle, “Drips,” exhibits effervescent intelligence through slithering opinions, melodic pre-dawn knowledge raised on battered plastic shoegaze and woozy neon synth-rock. Subdued truths melted into glamourous analogue fantasies, Piroshka’s posh Britpop roots conjure perceptive reflections whose easy demeanor leans on watery narcotic optics where reverent tenderness blends into groovy space-age bliss.

Royal Canoe - Sidelining

Electro-funky bump and grinds dancing in sunshine art-pop gospel, Royal Canoe’s seamless digital demons romp in rubbery feelgood tumbling, skulking double-talk moxie and warm flower-power flash. Swept into flexible up-tempo temptations, “Sidelining,” moves from mellow hellos to bright family affairs in a hop, skip and a jump; syncopated pleasure cruises gleefully gliding through intriguing beats, synth-soul love and sampler jams.

Rodrigo Amarante - Drama

Blessed in carefree flair and silky lilting visions, the infectious, caressing “Drama,” sparkles and lulls, seducing in flirtatious engagements and fleeting appeasements through a cinematic pallet chilled in Brazilian skills. A multi-instrumentalist whose collaborative career extends decades, Amarante’s second solo album flows in casual imagination as understated arrangements merge intimate simplicity into shifting rhythms, lifting whispered wisdom into starry carnivals.

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes

Passive rock theatrics roasted in seething soul and rinsed in restlessly desperate gestures, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and Savages’ Jehnny Beth concoct fawning belladonna ballads spiked in devious intrigues and trimmed in heartbreak hymns. Brave, estranged confessions, “Ashes,” rehash past romantic obsessions with moving tributes; patient condemnation mingled in shimmering regret building into anthemic contempt, bittersweet relief and cavalier weariness.

Dot Allison - Heart-Shaped Scars

Tranquil tasteful banquets serving weightless graceful sustenance with delicious wit, “Heart-Shaped,” hosts magical musical tea-parties summoning raindrop piano singed in firefly violins, balmy harmonies and nylon-string acoustics; dew-soaked chamber-folk subtly fluttering and hovering over dark gardens. Beckoning reckonings spun in light electronics, Allison’s delicate gossamer text evoke baroque emotions, sweet suites infused with playful teases, deep secrets and spooky conclusions.

Martha Wainwright - Love Will Be Reborn

Compassionate rapture encapsulated in volatile country-folk opuses, voracious vocalist Wainwright ventures past preening bleeding hearts, vanquished anguish and ravenous tragedies into transformative warnings adorned in transcendent magnificence; brutal beauty shining in uncompromising defiance. Orchestrated in divine rip-tide flourishes, the gorgeous, “Reborn,” cleanses weathered contentions, writhing, conspiring and prying open consuming wounds while piecing together tenuous remnants replenished in ephemeral remembrances.

Madi Diaz - History of a Feeling

Lessons gathered, scattered and battled, “Feeling,” peels revelations from regrets correcting weaponized missteps while mastering classic ballad disclosure through discrete self-exposure, willful lyrics and minimal instruments cradling hidden rage among rational reactions. Tender and tempestuous, Diaz weave songs around private concessions, attempted redemptions, venomous amends and honest intentions, confronting hard truths with bruising review and unavoidable choices with lusty rebuttals.

Roy Montgomery - Rhymes of Chance

Draped in clanging delays, possessed compression and submerged reverb, half-dissolved altercations permeate Montgomery’s laconic trance-goth sonics, restless fishnet experiments where methodical wallowing drenched in hesitant adventure evolves into penetrating meditations capturing aqueous tapestries. The nebulous narrative woven into, “Chance,” micro-manages chain-link fence tension and generative trembling facing an unflinching abyss; random abandoned memories sink in siren-calling slumber on galactic mattresses.

Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take

Upfront, wonderfully blunt and deliciously unambiguous, “Shape,” makes affectionate directness a desirable connection; personal lifeline reminders keeping it real with strong bonds popping melodic swagger onto utopian openness and emotional devotion. An unflappable wingman, De Souza’s hard-hitting indie-rock gifts swing in effortless depth as tactile facts backed by mega-electric guitars, bracing bass and clutched percussion beautifully fuse into magnanimous calamities.   

Marisa Anderson and William Tyler - Lost Futures

Honed tones mosey from melancholy Spanish ambience to sober rodeo overtures in guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler’s imaginative hands; haunted and hounded, the partnership’s nomadic riffs unloose aloof ruminations occasionally joined by floorboard drums and spiraling violin. Thoughtfully cautious and firmly assertive, “Lost,” fosters vigorous mystical road-trips, curious gypsy journeys seeking frontier peace in lonely crossroads and starlit side-streets.

The Joy Formidable - Into The Blue

Sparks fly as champion rampages steeped in vaporwave masonry form alt-rock cauldrons cooking cauterized dream-pop inside the bulletproof, “Blue,” a crispy blitz hammering industrial phantoms into rhythmic submission and inflicting risky wishes with unblinking intimidation. Armor-plated enablers orbiting dangerous liaisons, The Joy Formidable’s sinister syllabus enlists illicit prescriptions beneath hallucinogenic menace, courting distorted sport with courageous rapport and stun-gun force.

Heartless Bastards - A Beautiful Life

Impatient consolation teetering between giddy swimming against the tide and gliding mildly over obstacles, “Beautiful,” offers empathetic medicine prescribing philosophical resolve wrapped in accomplished melodic pop. Impish invites running scenic sprints around log-cabin cabaret, Heartless Bastards’ joie de vivre gleans wonderful sunset descents touched by mystic indie-rock, lush ballroom ballads, and hot-wired Americana. HB play Madison’s Majestic Theater September 23rd.

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