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 Rock Picks Present New & Alternative Spheres with artists like Hyporadar, Lenny Jennings, and Matt DeAngelis

This week's LITM Rock Picks Present New & Alternative Spheres with artists like Hyporadar, Lenny Jennings, and Matt DeAngelis.

Hyporadar - This Ain’t The Day I Die 

Hyporadar is the passion project of Shane Duquette, an artist with a vision like no other. He makes the alternative realm as we know it even more alternative. ‘This Ain’t The Day I Die’ explores a razor sharp, minimal flow that details a fuzzy and disoriented headspace. The beats are raw and the grooves are mellow but you can’t ignore the presence that they bring. And the vocals, uninflected, and deliberately dry, forge a very detached landscape. The hooks keep on coming, sliding, funky, bluesy and underground smooth, nicely rounding up a retro vibe that you can just drift into. Its repetitive nature, nicely glazed with hypnotic calls. 

Lenny Jennings - Phases 

Lenny Jennings brings an atmospheric soundscape with latest release, ‘Phases’. With slow burning riffs, deep grooves, and molten guitar melodies, he forges heartache, sensuality, and love. There are alternative elements like hip-hop rhythms, emo, and pop that turn up the rock. We see modern electronica manifest as cerebral synth patterns, forming waves and ripples in the transition. And all of this, so vivid and varied, is contextually, stylistically tied up with the fluid vocal dynamics. We see deep rock core driving into the song, fuzzy and intense, but soft and softening in a way that songs about love often get. 

Matt DeAngelis - For Better 

Matt DeAngelis has put out his latest single, ‘For Better’. The singer-songwriter and acoustic rock artist has an incredible musical pulse. The kind that carries into you and keeps vibrating, stays alive for many days to come. This track is built with free flowing riffs, luminous grooves, grand guitar showcases, and a lush vocal line. There is a classic rock influence that takes you back to artists like Queen. But there’s also a new age rock and singer-songwriter flow that takes over and nicely balances it all out. That intimacy of the latter with the culture of the former makes for quite the listening experience. 

Teika & The Raw Beat - Bones n Stones 

Teika & The Raw Beat is an explorative banner of singer-songwriter, Teika. She expands across the spectrum of folk rock and blues, crafting it with raw acoustics and bare beats, all of it lifting suggestively into her vocals. Her latest release is the ‘Bones n Stones’ album, a collection that discovers moments, claims memories, and describes a life lived. The title track is made like a single shot movie, a slow-moving frame that dotes on details, feelings, emotions, and everything in between. Piano melodies, string work elevate the energy of the acoustics, forging them with dimensions as we flow into the climax. 

Block - The Ring Slipped Off 

Block is a singer-songwriter and alt folk artist who strives to bring new interpretation to the genre. The artist describes himself and his style as anti-folk, as he moves away from orthodox and traditional expression. In his song, ‘The Ring Slipped Off’, he leans into his lofi songwriting style, expansive textures, and influence of indie rock. The song forms in phases. First comes the soft, trickling, nostalgic acoustic folk. Plush melodic moments appear like mirages throughout the song. It is raw and rustic. And flowing into the later parts, we see a rush of indie rock, illuminating the horizon like a rising sun. That gleam and luminescence is intoxicating, so refreshing and leaves you wanting more. 

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This Week’s LITM Rock Picks are all about that alternative, pop rock dimensions with artists like Death by Selfie, Duane Hoover, Y is Nature, and others.

This Week’s LITM Rock Picks are all about that alternative, pop rock dimensions with artists like Death by Selfie, Duane Hoover, Y is Nature, and others.

Death By Selfie - Vampire 

Death By Selfie crafts very interesting alt rock atmospheres. It casts an ambience, an energy, a story, and an emotion. In their latest release, ‘Vampire’, they blend rock with retro electronica, some alt pop and shadow disco elements. The synths have so much personality, so much character as they spread across the soundscape. The dark themes associated with vampires get to be so vivid and real. With vocals that are alluringly nonchalant, moody and even sensual, you keep investing more and more into the journey. And with experimental synth accents, trippy sonic scatters, and consistently fresh bass lines, they create a perfect alternative soundscape. 

Duane Hoover - Wayward Path 

Duane Hoover is right up there with bands like The Smiths and The Beatles. Melodic rock with tales that form instantaneously in the mind. That’s the way this artist flows. His latest is the Wayward Path album whose title track is a pleasing blend of the above mentioned bands. Riffs that are luminous and engaging combined with long vocal arrangement, narrative lyricism and a folksy vein running through it all. It all adds up to a contemplative flow, which is elevated with a meaningful musical ambience and nostalgic style. If you like the soft, fluid spirit of 70s folk rock and 90s melodic alt rock, then you’ll really enjoy the collaborative manifestation of them in this track. 

Y is Nature - Transition 

A new age alternative artist, Y is Nature is a refreshing act. The band creates intimate spheres of music that carry human experiences to new levels of feeling. Their latest release is the Evasion album, one that brings moments of fantastic dream pop, joyful ambience, and abstract musical mixtures to create a memorable music experience. ‘Transition’ is a single from this collection, a mellow pop rock interpretation that combines speckles of acoustics and riffs with plush synths, cinematic rhythms, presentational frames, all of it you can simply just lean back and feast your mind and ears on. 

Pillowprince - Babybird

The abstractions of the previous song is extraordinarily dilated in this next song, ‘Babybird’ by Pillowprince. The song has lifting trance vocals that dissipate and disperse into wisps of melody and synths. The ethereal undulations in the backdrop become gradually textured with riffs, harmonies, and oriental acoustics. As you flow into the vocal swirl, the echo of the soundscape, its melodrama; all of it lifting into a transcendental riff and guitar sequence. So immersive and powerful that you’ll end up with goose flesh all over your back and arms. 

trainboy - green tea 

Ending this week’s list is the indie rock of trainboy’s ‘green tea’. It is melodic, fresh, and the kind of song that makes you feel light and luminous. The artist’s buoyant vocals are contemplative, a stream of consciousness that grows into the instrumentals and expands across the soundscape. So much so that it becomes one scene, one an integral part of another. The riffs are gentle, the acoustics are alluring, the progression is gradual, and the vocals are vulnerable and intimate. That contemporary tinge of a 21st century artist, the brand of creativity is so readily apparent. And like a long noodle or a train journey across the country, the song feels like a part of you, something that is both inside and outside you. Listen Now! 

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