This Week's LITM Rock Picks opens up the alternative expanse with artists like Kathmandu, The Crystal Teardrop, PoST, and others.
Kathmandu - Wild Wind
Kathmandu is the alternative project of songwriter and musician, Donna Marie. With influences that range from the 90s to the contemporary styles of indie rock and alternative planes is employed elegantly across their music. In their song, ‘Wild Wind’, the melodic quality and presence, coupled with electric grooves, spirited beats, and remarkable vocal moods present like a delightful wilderness. Tying back into the theme, the listening experience feels like you’re in a free space with expansive domes, buoyant energy, and voices from the otherworld. Progressively, it gets to be more and more transporting. If you are looking for the kind of song that elevates your consciousness, this is the perfect track for you.
The Crystal Teardrop - Colours Changing
The alternative atmosphere fills their soul and draws the music out of this next band. The Crystal Teardrop takes us into a mystical realm with their song, ‘Colours Changing’. Forged with psychedelic elements, progressive classic rock instrumentals, hypnotic vocal pulse, they grow into the space around you. Best way to enjoy the track is to close your eyes and let the song build a kaleidoscope of music around you. Because the grooves form in spiralling circles that lifts into visual melodies, dazing vocals, and cerebral warmth. A really great track to trip on. If you miss the sound of Pink Floyd, The Bangles, Porcupine Tree, and Deftones, this band will satiate you.
PoST - I’m Ready
A passionate and pulling soundscape awaits us next with PoST’s ‘I’m Ready’. They strike a nice classic, contemporary balance with this melodic rock song. There is definitely an alternative air to it seeing as it opens with earthy beats, funky/ bluesy grooves before opening up into a glassy melodic tingle. This rhythm imprint runs along the whole song. And from it springs an expressive vocal line, nicely running along peaks and dips alike. We see quivering accordions running across it. If you enjoy artists like Lukas Graham and James Arthur, you’re sure to love the influences, variations, and builds of this track.
Ultan - All In Good Time
Ultan keeps it hardcore and real with his latest release, ‘All in Good Time’. The track is an anthemic punk march with uncontained beats, explosive rhythms, and a powerful vocal drive. Basslines are charismatic, and the riffs take on so many lives, burning and coming alive like a phoenix. It is reminiscent of the Green Day, Linkin Park era, where punk was forged with sheer will to play. And all with a spirit that is jogging you into life, exciting your senses and springing into a momentum that is so fun and energizing to keep up with. In all its plucked glory, dispersing riffs, raging rhythms, and charismatic vocal delivery, it comes spectacularly alive. Listen Now!
Col Gerrard - The Way I Feel
Concluding this queue of alt rock is Col Gerrard’s ‘The Way I Feel’. A deep, evocative, and shimmering expanse of a song. Its soft rock lifting into contemporary pop spheres, sparkling piano melodies and infinite vocal emotion is overwhelming in the best way. There is so much feeling that flows through it like a current. Imagine being elevated by emotion, in a way that feels real and cinematic at the same time. That’s how this song is executed. And between these two spaces, a soft line of romance floats on by. A touch of blues, a meandering landscape of rock, and a whole lot of intoxicating melancholy and heartache. That’s the progressing essence of the track and it is as creative as it gets.
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