Beach Slang Plays As If Their Lives Depend On It
The earnestness and sincerity James Alex displays onstage, in interviews, or indeed in every note he growls, cannot be faked.
The earnestness and sincerity James Alex displays onstage, in interviews, or indeed in every note he growls, cannot be faked.
It’s a mix of the organic and the electronic/experimental and it’s never sounded better, fresher or more necessary.
Who doesn’t need a little brilliant back-porch weirdness in their lives?
There’s no better purveyor of the fun spirit of the odd genre dubbed ‘vaporwave’ than Skylar Spence.
Rarely in the history of electronic pop or rock has anyone done as much with as little as Washington, D.C.’s young multi-ethnic auteur Sneaks on Gymnastics.
The music is as stark as those lyrics but things aren’t as dour as they seem on first blush.
Everybody’s favorite dive bar off Elston on Wabansia is going old-school, throwing a shindig “similar to our first block party 20 years ago.”
On their second album the two musicians deliver an even more fully realized sonic assault than they unleashed on their debut.