Label: Silent Parade RecordsAlbum: Bell Choir Coast
Artist: Sydney Wayser
Genre: Indie Pop
The road to Bell Choir Coast started two years ago, when Sydney Wayser found herself in a gorgeous studio with a talented producer, in the midst of a New York winter that made the LA-bred Wayser miserable. “I was working on a record for a while and it wasn't clicking. I felt I needed to take a minute for myself and create the concept behind the record.” Drawing on all of her influences, from summers the French-American Wayser spent in Paris to her favorite artists, Wayser began to give her new territory shape. “Bell Choir Coast is about a fictional land that I made up, because I couldn't leave New York and I had to make my record. So I made up a new world in my head that was everything I wanted.” Sydney Wayser set about to make an album, and in the end she cleared a path to a world, and found her tribe and her sound in the process. Sometimes the prettiest of things are born of the hardest places. “When we started this I felt very heavy. Going into the studio and recording something that was light and fun and was the place I wanted, it helped solidify in my head what I wanted. At the end of the process, that enabled me to be where I wanted.”
Album: Live Upon A Blackstar
Artist: Celldweller
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Dubstep
While hard at work on his upcoming sophomore album Wish Upon A Blackstar, Celldweller mastermind Klayton took to the road on his first tour in five years. Now you can share the experience with Live Upon A Blackstar, the new live tour album that features audio recorded at shows in the US, Russia, Canada, and Japan. Live Upon A Blackstar is the definitive document of the 2010/2011 tour, capturing a unique era of the live Celldweller show, which will expand and mutate into new experiences as time goes by. Live Upon A Blackstar features twelve songs from Wish Upon A Blackstar, Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head, and the self-titled debut, all revamped, remixed, and mashed up for an exclusive live experience. Includes an exclusive live recording of “I Believe You”.
Album: stoalin'
Artist: isbells
Genre: Indie Rock, Folk
Isbells, at least in the studio, is Vandewoude’s one man band and their first, self-titled record, which was released in 2009, caught everyone by surprise. On Stoalin, Isbells’ second collection of songs, Vandewoude has managed to expand his musical horizons, without letting go of the ingredients that made his previous effort such a magical listening experience. Once more the album offers organic, introspective and somewhat wistful folk rock, built on catchy tunes and embellished with lush vocal harmonies. Like its predecessor it was recorded in the singer’s own studio, set up in a shed next to his house in the countryside. Most of the tracks are coloured with light touches of banjo, organ, trumpet, various types of percussion and gorgeous backing vocals by Chantal Acda (sleepingdog, True Bypass).
Label: Enpeg DigitalAlbum: Paranoid Nostalgia
Artist: enabl.ed
Genre: Electronic
Paranoid Nostalgia marks the return of Enabl.ed to Enpeg. This 6-track EP embodies everything that makes Enabl.ed such a talented artist to watch/listen for. Glitched beats? Check. Classic IDM melodies? Check. A feeling of nostalgia drenched in a futuristic perspective? Check. Memories heavily influenced by anxiety and fear sonified to surgical rhythms fused together by heartfelt melodic lines and computer deep textures. Paranoid Nostalgia embodies every element that makes a classic IDM album a classic. Superb production, for sure, but most importantly a sense of humanity within a futuristic digital structure. Beautiful wonderful music.
