Sutlej – Tell Me You Care
Sutlej is an alt rock band that journeys spectacularly through moods and human spaces. It’s the kind of sound that envelopes you and shows you an inner world. There’s details, nuance and a craft that makes them instantly stand apart. Their latest release is ‘Tell Me You Care’, a track that forms like a melancholic rock valley. With expansive reach, the instrumentals have their own feeling and journey alongside the vocals. Without losing the cohesive link between them, the journeys create a layered listening experience. Across the mellowed rock backdrop, they excite and awaken with luminous instrumentals, dynamic beat lifts, a rain of riffs and brimming basslines. It’s so full and rich that it takes over you. And you’re glad that it does. If you enjoy bands like HUM, Smashing Pumpkins, and Narrow-Head, you’re sure to love the surreal atmospheres and the grunge meets shoegaze musical continuum of this band.
Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard – The Shadow Remains
Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard put on quite the show with their latest single, ‘The Shadow Remains’. A unique musical piece that reckons the acoustic rock style with rolling Americana and tribal tempos and rhythms. It’s festive and full of lore. The culture seeps not only to the style but it is propagated by the energy, the grooves and the lyrical matter. When you actually look at the make of the song, you’ll realise that the format is quite simple. However, it’s transformed by the vision, but the sophisticated direction of energy. The vocals feel authentic and real as they bob up and down the riffs and the beats. It’s as if the voice is in a performative trance, and so are the instrumentals. Together, they form a circle and keep the loop infinite.
Laji George – Day I Died
Laji George is a singer-songwriter and a rock artist with such an incredible emotional bank. As a frontman for the rock band Pseutopia, he’s known to be quite the vocal performer with an incredible generosity and candor. You’ll especially see that coming out in his latest release, ‘Day I Die’, a song that forms like a stream of consciousness. Like words spilled across a page. All the mess, all the vulnerability, everything just laid out. This track forms in a flow. There’s no fixed or emphatic format or lines. Just a release that forms without a rush. There’s intention, there is style and there is emotion. The instrumentals have a little bit of blur around the edges that the listener can listen for or treat as atmospheric quotients. Laji’s vocals spill across this, rising from a depth and lifting towards immense peaks. It’s the kind of song that gives away something for keeps, that reveals something. It creates a connection.
The Sway – The Grief (Remix by Harry Kook)
The Sway are North London indie rockers with a dynamism that is instantly fun and exciting. As you listen to the first few lines of the song, you want to know more of the world that they’ve just introduced. And it happens with every track. Without fail. Their latest release is ‘The Grief (Remix by Harry Kook)’, a track that shuffles on by with layers of interesting music and incredible chromatism. In this track, you get a slapstick theatrical circus. It’s bustling, full of light and color. Something is always happening and you’re always entertained. While the riffs and basslines have their own spontaneous rhyme and rhythm to them, the beats help you navigate. They create a pattern that you can ride across the circus ground. And the vocals, ardent and deep but intensely electric is hard to forget. Because like the tricks in the circus, you don’t really get to hear vocals like this often. They fuel the soundscape but also fill it and enrich it with culture. This track presents a great blend of experimental features and retro facets, taking you back to artists like The Lathums, then you’re sure to love this indie/Britpop revival band.
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