Komaframe – Clouds In The Mirror
Komaframe is a solo artist and multi-instrumentalist from Italy. The artist loves to dedicate his music to explorative journeys. With compositions that start at one place and end in a whole different space, his tracks transport the listener to other worlds of music and feeling. His latest release is ‘Clouds in the mirror’. This fantastical theme is explored with serpentine flows and labyrinthine set ups. The artist heavily leans into mellow psychedelics, cultivating them profoundly to create deep states of feeling. If you enjoy artists like Glass Beams, the indie Australian band, you’ll love this artist’s work. The soundscape is forged with such a strong expressive command. The riffs, the chords, the harmonies and the guitar flow have such a powerful language with which they establish themselves. It’s enchanting, clever and skillful. Because before you know it, you’re in a hypnotic trance and you’re loving it.
The Wheel Workers – Open Invitation
The Wheel Workers are the perfect band to continue this week’s psychedelic journey with. Taken from their latest album, ‘One More Thing to Say’, the track ‘Open Invitation’ is the feature. With spacious vocals opening into oval portals of instrumentals, the song is instantly surreal. It forms on its own plane of reality and reference points. The ambiguity of the instrumentals, the experimental tangents, and the power with which they are made to interact feels like you’re witnessing a spell being cast. Embroiled in the serpentine flows of guitar, hypnotic sheets of vocals, and wiry grooves, the listener is enchanted by the alienic power of the sounds. The frequencies with which they form and split into chromatic magic. It’s truly complex at its best. With world building capabilities that transport the listener’s psyche, manipulates the mood and atmospheres that they engage with, the band reveals their virtuoso with this track.
MICHAEL & THE GUILLOTINE – THE HYDRA BLUES
MICHAEL & THE GUILLOTINE’s ‘THE HYDRA BLUES’, add to this week’s list with its own alternative brilliance. The track blends blues and classic rock with modern rock grooves, fresh grunge and hard rock power, they really show up with that underground energy. There’s angst, hardcore and confrontational. There’s style and charismatic appeal, and a character that you can’t help but love. It’s the perfect song to assert that hooded, underworld anti-hero in you. The beats flash through the soundscape like lightning. Riffs grow into that energy, spread it and hook the chords in like sky fire. It’s raw, dark theatrical rock with a performative allure that keeps you attention throughout. Building up into a defiant anthem, it’s cathartic and bold and angry. If you enjoy bands like Queens of Stone Age and Royal Blood, you will absolutely feast on the swaggering riffs, muscular grooves and the chant ready chorus of this track. Listen Now!
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