A lot will be said about the lead vocal in Snypa’s new single “The 6ix,” but for me, without the element that we’re first greeted by in the intro to the song, I just can’t say for sure whether or not the chills factor would be as astronomical as it is when the singing does […]
Right from the moment we press the play button forward, it’s hard to ignore the clubby atmosphere created by the anxious percussion and seething melody of the keys in the backdrop in Miss Kaniyah’s new single “I Look Good.” While it’s evident the song wasn’t created strictly for the dancefloor, the neon-stained harmonies that soon […]
In their new single “How Do You Feel,” pop-rockers BlueNevada takes searing strings, blistering beats, and uncompromisingly heavy electric fretwork and combines them into a true melting pot of melodicism. Similar stylizations of songs like this one have been big lately, and although others in the underground have proven undeniably tough to beat, instead of […]
From an instrumental point of view, there’s a lot to marvel at within the conservative construct of Sp8ce Owl’s “The Underside Of Yesterday,” his latest outing in the studio. Although pressurized in the master mix, the synth still glistens with a reflectiveness that, when placed next to Sp8ce Owl’s dynamic rhythm as it has been […]
For the most part, Bruce Sudano’s new single with Valerie Simpson “Two Bleeding Hearts” has a softer sensibility than most pop music does. There’s not a lot of push in the rhythm, the guitar accentuates what feels like a naturally smooth, low-key tempo, and even Sudano himself sounds more comfortable in a relaxed position than […]
There’s just enough of a pressurized swell from the bottom in the new single “El Rey del Timbal” for me to call the song the easiest-going of anything I’ve been listening to in the last few months, but you’re crazy if you think the performance Sheila E. is giving here is solely about turning in […]
Crisply produced but not oversaturated with the typical pop varnish that separates instrumental emotional presence from a receptive audience, the sleekly appointed melodic pulsations we find dancing around Somesh Mathur in his single “Hallelujah” are truly an agent of evocation. Without uttering any of the poetic verses that Mathur is, the instrumental foundation here speaks […]
Conceptually speaking, there’s nothing elaborate about what Ivan the Greatness is producing in the new single “Power 2030.” From top to bottom, this is the kind of rap song that speaks to formulaic standards in the genre today more than it does the rebelliousness of its critically acclaimed past, but within that decision to stick […]
