This Week's LITM Rock gets artful with artists like Weslynn, 14Flamingos, Joe Hudson and Others

Weslynn - Love and Let Go 

Weslynn releases their latest, ‘Love and Let Go’ an electro rock anthem about the passage of love. The duo put on quite an immersive song, expanding it with deep thought, soulful vocals, authentic emotions, and beautiful musical craft. All these elements have a seamless way of wrapping into each other, giving life to the grandeur of the scene, the fragility of the feeling, and the power of the experience. Instrumentally, the soundscape is reminiscent of the late 2000s and early 2010s. Acoustics excited by synths, surging melodies, and an evocative beat trajectory that will leave you feeling so viscerally. It’s one of those tracks that are alive and if you reach out, you can feel it breathing. 

14 Flamingos - The Duke 

14 Flamingos is an indie band with such a wonderfully absurd interpretation of the genre. It is funky, warped, sharp, and angled in every way. Their latest release is ‘The Duke’, an art rock exploration with moments of softening blues, jazz experiments, sunny tones, and moody rock. The result is a soundscape that makes you feel like you’re in an interesting bar with visual lights, warm vibrance, magical air; an intimate alternative scene that feels surreal. Its classic rock and retro folk accents are made to lift into neo rock, contemporary craft, and creative executions. 

Centrifuge - You Are Yesterday 

Centrifuge keeps it hot and tight with their latest release, ‘ You Are Yesterday’. The alt rock song is packed with charismatic guitar work, a web, a groove, a network, a language that spreads across the soundscape with so much personality. Riffs, synth keys, beats, and the vocals do some great atmosphere work, casting the listener in a day dreaming, sunny frame with an underbelly of heavier s times. The sliding rhythms have a retro feel to it. Add to that the varied textures and tonalities of the melodies. With vocals ushering in a whole other layer of experience, this is the perfect track for you if you’re in the mood for dynamism. 

Joe Hodgson - Since You Had a Hold on Me 

Joe Hodgson is a guitarist and writer. He has crafty fingers and a spectacular way with music. When you listen to his music, it feels like you’re witnessing a conversation between two pals. In his latest release, ‘Since You Had a Hold On Me’, featuring guest vocalist Glen Harkin, the artist speculates a blues song, so deeply entrenched with country style, motifs, and influences. His guitar work is as sophisticated and true as 20th century blues artists. The Hammond organ and the guitar respond to him in a way that fosters a whole presence. So rich and enriching that you can’t get enough. Joe does a great job in conveying the culture of the style, the story of the song, and the intoxicating appeal of his artistry. Listen Now! 

Jesse Blake Rundle - Continuous, Wait 

With this latest release, ‘Continuous, Wait’ Jesse Blake Rundle claims another shade of melancholy. The artist’s indie rock style is entrenched in folk acoustics, coming alive in the creative blending of them. In the song, he explores the expansive nothingness of the theme, the continuum of the scene, minutes, the hours, the days. He blurs the textures to a point of abstract, to an inexplicable point that can only be understood by the emotional quotients. And in this journey, he fleshes out the human experience in such a remarkable way. It is intimate, personal, and so poetically profound. 

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This Week's LITM Pop Picks bring a spectrum of style and technique with artists like Maumaumau, Pixielated, and Bri Scully

This Week's LITM Pop Picks bring a spectrum of style and technique with artists like Maumaumau, Pixielated, and Bri Scully.

Maumaumau - Macho Macho

Maumaumau is a Mexican American alt pop artist. With his latest release, ‘Macho Macho’, he explores a fun-fuelled, light-hearted, but necessary contemplative anthem. He excites a  healing journey, urges us to grow out of unserving weights and prejudices that we carry and just be free. The track has larger than life energy, a high-energy, high-impact, momentum boost that compels the listener to think and simultaneously want to act. It lights a fire under you, reveals the other side of ego, the charisma of nonchalance, and fuels you to come on over. The listening experience can be transformative and liberating if you let it and take it from me, you definitely should. 

Pixielated - AI Superstar 

Taking the punching energy to the next level is Pixielated’s latest, ‘AI Superstar’. If you want to dive headfirst into a futuristic sonic space, then this is the track for you. There is not a single moment of stagnation. It’s a dynamic color show, progressing always to the next level of energy, a new level of consciousness. There’s dance, pop, and explosive peaks, all bolstered to an expansive vocal high. And the rhythm flows into a smooth infinity, with ups and downs. Like a landscape, it grows into the theme, speculating on electro pop like never before. Listen Now! 

Bri Scully - Under You 

Bri Scully is a singer-songwriter and indie pop artist. Her soft pop renditions are the voices of her experience. Stringing acoustics with a mellow pop flow, so personal and so intimate that you can’t help but connect. Her latest release is ‘Under You’, a track in which she explores the aftermath of a breakup where you have to unlearn so much of who you were in the relationship. It has that girlhood melodrama to it that plays into the lyrics. Matched with vulnerability, honesty and contemplative healing, it is such a special song. When you listen to it, it feels like you’re talking with a friend, slipping into her emotions and experiences. 

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This Week's LITM Singer-Songwriter Picks is all about the contemplative flair with artists like Patti Zlaket, EG Phillips, and Larry Karpenko

This Week's LITM Singer-Songwriter Picks is all about the contemplative flair with artists like Patti Zlaket, EG Phillips, and Larry Karpenko

Patti Zlaket - Bliss 

Patti Zlaket is an experimental singer-songwriter and sonic designer. Her craft springs from her curiosity, her tendency to stray and find meaning in the abstract. Her latest release, ‘Bliss’ is a track that traces the outlines, the flutter and feeling of the theme. Blending calming rhythm cycles with specks of beats, splattering across the soundscape, the soundscape is light and airy. And the vocals, intuitive and deep rooted in memories, autobiographical emotions, and echoes, adds so much mystery to the nostalgia. And the best way to experience the track is to let yourself drift into the slow forming whirlpool of bliss and all the dimensions that it releases. Listen Now! 

EG Phillips - When It Gets Dark 

The mysterious flow that Patti creates is absorbed and expanded with neoclassicals in EG Phillips’ ‘When it Gets Dark’. The artist’s instrumentals are cinematic and contemplative, luring the listener to spread across its soundscape and explore. The baritones are hypnotic and ruminative, well-paired with the low tones of the cello. It takes us to the other side, towards the unknown, back to a fond past or a solitude that takes you to distant places. The song has that descriptive charm and romantic blues that is reminiscent of Sinatra’s era. All in all, it is quite wonderful to float through space and drift into its reality. 

Larry Karpenko - The River 

Larry Karpenko’s ‘The River’ explores the infinities that faith brings to his life. The track, lush and vivid with instrumentals, reinforces the cinematic ambience of its predecessor. In the wake of this theme, the artist touches upon the hope, joy, and love that ties into it, enriching his life. It is a very scenic soundscape, and it grows tremendously, inflating with the warm sentiment of his vocals. It’s like a relief, a weightlessness, a buoyant feeling that somehow anchors you, keeps you fluid and centred in all the ways that matter. And the artist, building a song around this feeling, finds the perfect metaphor to relate it to, to build a song around, and to connect with people. 

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