Toro Y Moi – “Saturday Love”
"Saturday Love" comes off Toro Y Moi's latest EP Freaking Out released in September. Since his second album Underneath the Pine, project mastermind Chazwick Bundick has initiated a slow migration from Chillwave, the indie-pop niche helped carve out.
Atlas Sound – “Te Amo”
The lyrics are shaped by themes of alienation and futility. In reacting to these themes Cox’s voice vacillates between sounding pained - as he strains in a higher register - and sounding intoxicated, delivering the words slow and easy, and often deliberately late to the beat, as if submitting to his darker feelings contains...
Caveman – “Thankful”
“Thankful” (one of two free tracks the band released to promote their brand new album) sounds like a dreamier, more melodic version of Talking Heads. With the infectious pulse of the conga banging out tribal polyrhythm combined with the ritualistic repetition of...
Low – Especially Me
It sounds like a lullaby, but the lyrics seem to have the opposite intent, “You’ve fallen into slumber/Just wake one more time.” Its intention is not to relax, but to coax us out of our shells of certainty and weigh the validity of our accepted truths...
Phantogram – Don’t Move
Listen to the New York electronic-rock duo's single for the upcoming Nightlife EP. “Don’t Move” has a tactile edge, and is more whimsical than their previous material, which was darker and more subdued...
Air Review – America’s Son
Aesthetically “America’s Son” draws from a range of American musical traditions. The stiffly struck and unadorned piano chords and tuneful melody resemble a parlor song from the turn of the 20th century. The shifting layers of whispered vocal harmonies and the archaic syntax...
Slothbear – Seventeen Once
Sedated, steady despite some sloshing at the edges, the track comes bobbing out of the gate like a surprisingly limber young drunk. Notable is the unique use of the lead guitar: tooling and stumbling at first, sharp as a razor in the middle, lightly thrashing at the end; but always disconnected from the rest of...
Galleries – Young Wounds
Listen to the new single from Glasgow, Scotland's indie pop band Galleries. It sounds like it could be the soundtrack to an 80’s prom and/or uplifting movie montage...
Yuck – The Wall
Ten variations of this sweet pop-grunge elixir grace their self-titled debut, and each sip will put a smile on your face.
Byte Size Review List #8
We've done a Byte Size Review List eight times now. This could end up being the best one, so stay tuned. Reviews and mp3 of I Break Horses, and The Flaming Lips with Lightning Bolt, and more to come! Don't miss out on the best Byte Sizers yet, maybe.
Byte Size Review List #7 (July 17 – August 7)
Review List lucky number seven includes reviews and mp3s from DiVA, Radiation City, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Adam & the Amethysts, M83, Teen Daze. Frequently return for frequent updates, frequently.
Byte Size Review List #6 (July 3rd – July 16)
There are six Byte Size Review Lists. This one features short reviews and mp3s from Blue Belt, Big Troubles, WU LYF, Poland, Preteen Zenith and White Denim. We'll be updating this list over two weeks, so check in often!
Byte Size Review List #5 (June 12 – July 3)
The fifth Byte Sizer has sizzling, spicy reviews and mp3s of Fucked Up, Lower Dens, 1,2,3 and Norwegian Arms. Frequent updates can be expected over this special three week edition!
Byte Size Review List #4 (May 29 – June 11)
In this, the fourth Byte Size Review List, we give the scoop on Cults, Alina Simone, Phil Cook and His Feat, Digital Leather, Emot, Man Man and Sonny & the Sunsets. MP3s included and many more updates forthcoming!
Byte Size Review List #3 (May 15 – May 28)
The third Byte Size Review List has reviews of ninety or less words and mp3s of Maps & Atlases, The Weeknd, Secret Cities, Rival Schools, Austra, The People's Temple and Four Tet. Many more to come in this edition's short and exciting two-week lifespan.
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