Ram Vela & the Easy Targets – Pick Up Where I Left Off
Genre: Pop Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: Fountains of Wayne, Superdrag, Cheap Trick, Rozwell Kid, Teenage Fanclub, Big Star
There are types of music that function as a simple, great, efficient health check for the music listener. They are there to tell you that if you do not get them, or they do not get you excited, then most likely there is something wrong with you.
And, this is a potential issue that you should treat with the greatest amount of concern. If your love of music was ignited early, the risk of having it be extinguished is tantamount to losing your very soul. Simply said, on the day that you don’t feel the same kind of connection with your favorite record, start asking yourself serious questions, consider more rest, additional exercise, or quitting the rat race altogether. You may well be better off.
There is nothing in music that better resembles a True North of passion and honesty than power-pop, the variety of hook-rich pop-rock that Ram Vela & the Easy Targets’ Pick Up Where I Left Off utilizes here. The band, much like the heroes that they openly quote here, is in the music trade for the purpose of composing the kind of melodies, hooks, and grooves that will simply overpower your senses. If you still feel grouchy after hearing this, maybe, your doctor needs to have a word with you. If power-pop doesn’t appeal to your musical sensibility any longer, reconsider some of your choices.
Jacob Faurholt – Droneflowers
Similar artists: Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Guided by Voices
Genre: Alternative Rock
When in 1970 John Lennon wrote, and recorded Instant Karma in a single day, and was quickly shot miming the song on Top of the Pops, it all seemed downright incredible. Why such a feat of songwriting virtuosity couldn’t be achieved by mere mortals, the mere mortals thought. If anyone could do that what would happen to the producers, engineers, PR people, make-up artists, etc.
Turns out that ol’ Winston Beatle was right. In the future music could be assembled and distributed from one day to the other in the same manner that a newspaper publishes its daily stories. As for the assortment of people used to help the rock musicians, they can still be called upon, and are very useful. But, they aren’t vital anymore. Technology has evolved to the point where having your band and management is optional. Good songwriting, however, is not.
With all of this in mind, prepare for endless lo-fi revolutions. Jacob Faurholt’s Droneflowers is music made under the lure of thick, shoegaze 1980s bands. But, what is most remarkable is the fact that the Danish songwriter seems to have captured the best idea at precisely the moment he thought it into existence. Droneflowers sounds like it required no second-thinking. Just like a picture, it captures a moment in time, and just like a selfie, it could have been captured by the subject with no additional interference from the outside world.
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