by The Last City | Feb 23, 2016 | Music Reviews
It’s easy to imagine the studio as a playground, and Megan skipping around it in wide-eyed wonder. Carl Jung said “The creative mind plays with what it loves.” That is certainly the feeling you get when listening to Megan Landry’s first full...
by The Last City | Jan 21, 2016 | Music Reviews
One of my favorite things about life, in all of its aspects, is surprises. The value of pop music is its ability to be immediately familiar, accessible, and comfortably simple. I’ll warn you now: if you want an album that will not offer surprise, or deviate...
by The Last City | Nov 19, 2015 | Modern Classical Music, Music Reviews
Noisetrade strikes again, this time with my eyes bring drawn to a comparison I am often leery of… It sets the bar pretty high when an artist compares themselves to Damien Rice. But I was bored and curious; a cocktail of emotions that has led to everything from...
by The Last City | Jan 13, 2015 | Music Reviews
The Gray Haven’s first full length album, “Fire and Stone”, was released on January 6, 2015. What makes this record both impressive and intriguing is its ability to create and explore a deeply relatable, fiction world. Each song in some way begins...
by The Last City | Oct 28, 2014 | Modern Classical Music, Music Reviews
Kings Kaleidoscope is a multi-MULTI-piece band with everything from a strings trio, to a horn section, to the occasional tubular bell appearance. Led by Chad Gardner, they have managed to not just blend their various instruments, but conscientiously add and subtract...
by The Last City | Oct 4, 2014 | Modern Classical Music, Music Reviews
I have spent a lot of time scouring Noisetrade, Youtube, Reverbnation and the like getting really excited about a song from this or that band, the most recent single from an artist I’ve always loved, or the impressive production quality of otherwise mediocre...
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