Shulamith by Poliça

Next on the list is the new album from Poliça. This is another band that my uncle introduced me to not too long ago, and I started listening to their first album a bit. At that time, I didn’t even know there were plans for this album, luckily I found out about a week before the release, so I didn’t have to wait too long to hear it. 

This band is something else though. With their electronic melodies, groovy bass lines, cool auto-tune and effects on the vocals, etc. etc. Also, their two drummers who play together insanely tight. The intro track to Shulamith, Chain My Name, showcases all of this very well too, and is a great place to start for them. After watching many live videos of theirs, I’m very excited to catch their set next week in Houston.

Genre: Electronic / Experimental

▲ by Slow Magic

 

Electronic music is a genre that I don’t know too much about, and feel as though I ought to know more. After jamming Robert Delong a lot, I started digging to find other electronic artists that piqued my interest. 

Yesterday, I came across this artist that goes by the name Slow Magic. Anonymity is something that seems very important to him, as he’s always wearing a mask when he plays, and his music is said to be “music by your imaginary friend”. In an interview though, he says he likes the anonymity because it forces people to look at and listen to the music, instead of looking at him. 

I came across the Audiotree session he did though and then downloaded the album shortly after watching it. I really enjoyed the energy I saw in the Audiotree session, and thought that the passion translated fairly well into the album. The tunes seem to have a steady flow to them, with a lot of use of dynamics too which I love. On top of all of that, the album art is crazy cool too. 

Genre: Electronic / Chillwave

(My apologies to any die hard electronic music fans if I got the “subgenre” wrong. I pulled it off last.fm since I’m unfamiliar with the electronic music world. Feel free to tell me what you’d label it!)

Stream of “Just Movement” by Robert Delong

 

Now, I’m not usually a big fan of EDM music and the sort, but a few months back I saw Robert Delong play and was BLOWN AWAY. I posted about him a while back, before he really had much music out. On Tuesday, his much anticipated album “Just Movement” releases on Glassnote Records. But, to hold you over before you buy it, Billboard is streaming the entire album on their site here. 

I just did my first listen through and it’s great. Now for round 2!

Genre: Electronic

“Bang Bangz” Gaining Momentum in Houston

The three piece electro-indie band in Houston, Tx seems to be gaining a lot of momentum lately. They played a couple of months ago at the Houston Press Music Awards, and they’ve been doing nothing but gaining speed since then!

Genre: Indie / Electronic