Slipped Discs
Discs You May Have Missed
by John Noyd
Gordi - Our Two Skins
GordiOur Two Skins
Label: Jagjaguwar
Subtle, vulnerable touches climbing behind deep-feeling pop-soul weariness and aspiring folk-tronic fire, “Skins,” swim in warm embraces, nurtured by determined searching purging confidential mentions with fluid communion. Lasting passion grasping gilded lyrics, Gordi implores and restores; her vocal’s expressive faith breathing life into songs trimmed in minimal instruments restlessly coalescing into formidable storms; humanity’s poignant calamities placed beneath piqued beats.
Lime Cordiale - 14 Steps to a Better You
Lime Cordiale14 Steps to a Better You
Label: Chugg Music
Bouncy, baggy, thrift-store swagger from sweet-talking Chaucers, Lime Cordiale slings winding rhymes in smitten wingman sunshine, secret weekend love-stories scored for honky-tonk jaunts bobbing in shuffling percussion, carefree melodies and street-wise advice. Blue-eyed seaside soul, “14 Steps,” sends friendly recommendations rich in elastic toe-tapping dramatics for bold, romantic interventions vented in salty pub-crawl solace, boogie-sugared vaudeville and swinging indie carnivals.
Dream Wife - So When You Gonna…
Dream WifeSo When You Gonna…
Label: Lucky Number
Saucy, frothy, vengeful and sensual, “Gonna,” guns for fun; happily reprehensible New Wave races painted with pit-stop thoughts raring for tasty punk-pop chases, hunting unsettled bellwether regrets with bewitching misfit sympathy. Bridge-burners, table-turners and fast-learners, Dream Wife marries fearless sneers to thick-skinned grins, hiding sensitive intentions beneath sassy tactics and actively distracting open emotions with improper propositions and incriminating persuasion.
• Dream Wife Website • Dream Wife Facebook • Dream Wife WikiAlice Ivy - Don’t Sleep
Alice IvyDon’t Sleep
Label: Last Gang
Head-turning studio connoisseur Ivy designs tantric dances sparkling in tweaked rainbow-soul, lavish post-dub love and tempting bedroom R&B; manna to famished radio-friendly pop-gods yearning for stroboscopic mojo polished in unrepentant phosphorescence. Intense blends producing ultra-groovy fusions overlapping fluid rap with hard-wired beats dipped in auto-tuned funkiness, “Sleep,” reaches for the stars, elevating commercial appeal to musical fireworks for the masses.
• Alice Ivy Website • Alice Ivy Facebook • Alice Ivy WikiKllo - Maybe We Could
KlloMaybe We Could
Label: Ghostly International
Swift rhythmic rivers bubbling beneath hovering ghost-lovers as whirling glitch-riddled world-beats sweeten smooth translucent grooves, “Maybe,” flavors fashionably passive contrasts with elegant well-spent intensity, alluring superlatives and exotic optics. Partnered in luscious seductions and vacuum-sealed feelings, Kllo’s silky guilty pleasures wrestle passionate tempests, out-of-reach treats surrounded by flickering vixen singing, diva high-dive descents swept into nets rescued by heavenly consent.
• Kllo Website • Kllo Facebook • Kllo WikiThe Beths - Jump Rope Gazers
The BethsJump Rope Gazers
Label: Carpark Records
Fueled by an enthralling fondness for rom-com bop-rock, The Beths jet from romantic ransom for platonic hostages to sour-grape escapes crafted in unrequited politeness and compatible compassion. Pairing jangly affairs with pivoting riffs, “Gazers,” blaze in roaring choruses past splashy backing vocals casting snake-charming harmonies into exuberant tunes and lifting superior lyrics enunciated with reckless directness into cheerful empirical delirium.
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Silver ScrollsMusic for Walks
Label: Three Lobed Recordings
Intuitive moods gifted in unforced metamorphosis, “Walks,” stretches and expresses counter-culture cool, kicking psycho-tribal myths in hip sidewinder grifts with sparring guitars darting in uprooted confluence, hornet’s nest buzz turned spider-web shimmer. Zen-rock contenders, tag-team bohemians and downtown dreamers, Silver Scrolls roll in concrete canyon jams and dappled electric-folk rapture; six-string spirit-walkers straddling casual conjecture, exploratory chords and energetic calm.
• Silver Scrolls WebsiteTurning Jewels into Water - Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars
Turning Jewels into WaterOur Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars
Label: FPE Records
Stoked techno-global alchemists mixing restless temporal mementos, TJIW’s sonic bonfires melt organic samples onto studio-manufactured curios, spawning alien tailgate anthems rich in primitive synergy and city-slicker sophistication. Processed poly-rhythmic glitches stitching indigenous snippets to twitching subterranean mania, “Adorned,” swarms with cultural storms, flowing DJ mosaics and neural surveys luring murky anachronisms onto mythical rituals, rhythmic-shifting enigmas and flickering shadow dances.
• Turning Jewels into Water Website • Turning Jewels into Water FacebookFantastic Negrito - Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Fantastic NegritoHave You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Action-packed melodramatics dipped in soul-assisted sizzle,” Lost,” back-talks in consciousness-raised exorcisms, casting out demonic preponderance with headline-grabbing stabs, contagious salacious tastes, pumped pulpit polemics and cartoon falsettos. Streetwise post-ironic operettas woke to urban-legend amendments, Fantastic Negrito’s possessed personas groan and moan with fierce hep-cat testaments delivered with revival-tent intentions and rallying ballyhoo, eliciting stinging organ wipe-outs alongside gut-wrenching guitar meltdowns.
• Fantastic Negrito Website • Fantastic Negrito Facebook • Fantastic Negrito WikiLogan Farmer - Still No Mother
Logan FarmerStill No Mother
Label: Western Vinyl
Cloud-bursting chamber-folk whispers drifting in lonely post-rock daydreams from graveyard-shift witnesses to lovesick mysteries, Logan Farmer’s solitary odyssey fosters tender acoustic clues to evasive destinations, unsettled melodies fallen into hollow waltzes and blank verse. Cloistered choices hidden in hard decisions,” Mother,” harbors ghostly poetry floating over rhythmless abysses; porous orchestras and electronic fog incorporating factual fictions held in emotional prisons.
• Logan Farmer Website • Logan Farmer FacebookOceanator - Things I Never Said
OceanatorThings I Never Said
Label: Plastic Miracles
Doom-laced about-faces placed between apocalyptic quips and rose-colored devotion, “Said,” hedges bets, pledging unhesitant punk-folk allegiance with cunning wonder, penetrating directness, cantering stanzas and charging carnage. Lean, deliberate and triumphant, Oceanator baits inescapable truths to crunchy riffs and shifty charisma; biting back-up for unflappable ballads ransacked in surplus purpose escorting scorching discourse from edgy fledgling revelations to sinister, rhythmic intimacies.
• Oceanator Website • Oceanator FacebookSecret Machines - Awake in the Brain Chamber
Secret MachinesAwake in the Brain Chamber
Label: TSM Recordings
Adrenaline engines slipping into psychotropic over-drive, Secret Machines’ streamlined restraint moves in fugitive grooves, anchoring abstract contracts through insidious diligence drenched in desperate heft and unstoppable moxie. Tungsten bluntness coupled to nonchalance comeuppance and brooding aloofness, “Awake,” negotiates and instigates, taking vintage synth-rock wisdom simmering in divisive suspicions and updating the stakes for heroic pandemic redemptions and willful insurgent resilience.
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