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A few words about a few more tracks that hit the spot over the past few weeks ### SHUAA - Heating Up A velvet smooth romance jam whose guitar chords flicker like a fireplace viewed through twin wine glasses. More from SHUAA Follow on Instagram and Facebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM0xtsdhYj8 ### Wyborn - Portable Water Full-throttle shimmer … Continue reading Multi-Weekly Wrap-Up 08.29.25
Natural Order is the trio's latest collection of instrumental doom metal. The Long Hunt make music for arduous journeys into the depths of primeval forests and across untouched mountain ranges. "Spine of Dusk" (a pleasing combination of words if I've ever heard one) is a dusty tumbleweed creep, all hissing cymbals, distorted rumbles, and snaking … Continue reading Daily Yinz – The Long Hunt – Spine of Dusk
The electronic artist's new album, labor, is full of busy sounds. FLOOR BABA's music, which teems with all manner of colorful and lively sonic splotches, has always made me picture a cell's internal industry. labor makes the connection more explicit. This is productivity music for an imaginary realm in which work is fun, in which … Continue reading Daily Yinz – FLOOR BABA – Heatwave Blues
Rocky Mountain Low is the veteran Pittsburgh musician's first solo full-length. Rocky Mountain Low distills André Costello's freewheeling breeziness--honed during his time with André Costello and the Cool Minors and Forestry Division--down to its purest essence. In an inspired move, Costello recruited Anthony LaMarca--who plays guitar and keys in my favorite band, the War on … Continue reading Daily Yinz – André Costello – Background Actor
The group's debut album is XD. sorry face (which is not only a band, but also the expression I show my cat when I tell her she's not allowed to eat my dinner) features members of PRINCESS, Cutting Ties, Giovanni Orsini, and forty winks. On XD, the group tempers its bursts of jittery punk angst … Continue reading Daily Yinz – sorry face – one-trick pony
A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Calamity Vessel - The Siren's Dream Windswept black metal that contains a strong melodic undercurrent, like an angelic song filtering up through dark waves. More from Calamity Vessel Follow on Instagram ### tamping - sortie (feat. temper the steel) … Continue reading Multi-Weekly Wrap-Up 08.08.25
The electronic artist's latest release is WHISPERING//WATCHING (More Creativity Records). Where "Whispering" is gentle and contemplative, as its title suggests, "Watching" ratchets the tension up a level, like it's not you doing the watching, but instead some shadowy figure doing it to you. Nervous percussion skitters beneath haunted mansion synths, and clipped, disembodied vocal samples … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Lavier – Watching
The poet and hip-hop artist’s latest EP is The Art of Being. Opening track “What A Day”--a Tyler, The Creator and Madlib remix--finds Treble using a serene, misty instrumental as a reflecting pool, staring into its depths and coming face to face with himself; his doubts (“I wonder without this Emmy how many notice me”), his frustrations–both local (“This … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Treble NLS – What A Day
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