This edition of LITM Rock Picks brings affecting releases from artists Sukh, Eva Nolia Vae, fxrrvst, Dvrk Romantics, and We Have Ghosts.
Sukh - Love Atom
Love Atom is a stunning single from Sukh’s latest album ‘Heading East.’ Serving as a reflection on love with profound revelations and incisive insights, the eloquent and introspective lyricism is deeply affecting. Weaved into a soundscape that is rooted in warm folk and cinematic indie pop aesthetics, the music feels expansive, anthemic, and majestic. Soaring melodies, pulsing beats, and swelling synths interlace in sublime patterns creating a vibrant, rousing backdrop. The singer’s vocals, grounded and mature, emotes with ease and grace, delivering soul-stirring melodies with devotion and sincerity. The lush harmonies elevate the power and passion radiating from the music. The whole aural experience is uplifting, inspiring, and heartwarming. Listen to the song here!
Eva Nolia Vae - Sweet Exhaustion
Sweet Exhaustion by Eva Nolia Vae is dripping in tender bluesy jazz, and vintage soul flavors. The music has an intimate and boldly expressive edge. The opening guitar notes soaked in soft dissonance, and the singer’s raw, reverberating emotive vocals envelop you in their tangible melancholia and sensuality, making it seem as though the artist is performing live right in front of you. As the music unveils, slowly and intently, the production becomes polished, as though the artist was instantly transported from the stage and into your listening device, still singing for you. The mesmeric slow groove of the drums, the slick strums of the guitar, tasteful textural distortions, and the arresting vocal performance makes this song a one-of-a-kind, exquisite release. Listen to the song here!
fxrrvst - Hate Has No Home Here
Toronto-based indie band fxrrvst (pronounced ‘forest’) brings you an affecting, and resonant new release titled Hate Has No Home Here. Their impactful lyricism grounded in honesty, vulnerability, and resilience echoes a very profound and powerful message, to live and let live, to love one and all, and to grow. This beautiful message is embedded in a warm, prismatic soundscape. Glowing, vibrant guitar riffs ebb and flow between contemplative and rousing passages, while thumping drums cascade and trickle through the soundscape anchoring it a lively current. The singer’s voice, commanding and sincere, scales the highs and lows of melody with precision and poise, while reaching for your heart with the emotive tunes. Hate Has No Home Here is a brilliant and moving release from fxrrvst. Listen here!
Dvrk Romantics - It’s not my problem (Wild One)
Dvrk Romantics bring a raging and riotous new single, It’s not my problem (Wild One). This one comes onto the musical stage with audacious authenticity and sonic swagger in every line and melody, taking you into a sound that is unapologetic and uproarious. The music is constructed with distortion-soaked, gritty guitar riffs, thunderous drums beating to a foot-stomping rhythm, and the rambunctious vocals of the singer, all coming together and fusing into a towering, rousing soundscape that gets your heart-racing in no time. The singer’s voice goes from punchy choruses, to sweet interludes, to defiant verses with a smoothness that is stunning, and stands out throughout the music without drowning into the heavy and intense downpour of instrumentation. It’s not my problem (Wild One) is a song that won’t leave your mind for a long time to come and will definitely make you want to hear more from the artist. Listen here!
We Have Ghosts - Amygdala Algorithm
Yorkshire power trio We Have Ghosts craft an explosive, high-octane sound in their debut release Amygdala Algorithm. Their sound is infused with punk attitudes and garage-rock atmospheres creating an experience that is invigorating and electrifying. The pulsing thrum of gravelly guitars opens the song to a speeding, exhilarating start. The music never loses momentum and it is kept in place tightly by the rolling clang and thump of the drums and the unrelenting rain of searing riffs. From this roiling, brimming lava of masterful instrumentation, emerges the soaring, raw, and boisterous vocals of the singer, lashing out earworm, raucous melodies. The candid, hard-hitting lyricism presents a personal narrative of coping with ADHD and this theme is reflected in the angsty, eruptive vocals. The dynamism and energy in the song is unparalleled. Listen to the song here!
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