Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 107, November 2022 A Shoreline Dream – Loveblind The lead track, “Alarms Stop Ringing,” presents the classic dreamlike swirl of melody, but inside that transporting vortex of sound is grit, noise and discordant elements that run through much of the album. The gorgeously blissed out aspect of […]
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 106, October 2022 Church Fire – puppy god Nearly four years since the release of the basically prophetic summer camp doom diary, Church Fire‘s new album out now on Witch Cat Records is somehow noisier, more confrontational and more both fraught with and purging of the trauma
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 105, September 2022 Lazy Realtors – Store Bought Although recorded at a professional studio (Mighty Fine Productions) and mastered in a way that preserves the fidelity of the intimacy of the performances well, this debut EP from Lazy Realtors maintains a charming touch of lo-fidelity aesthetics and
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 104, August 2022 Barstool Messiah – Whiskey Baptismal On this latest offering from Barstool Messiah the band exemplifies a certain sound that one heard more of in Denver around 20 years ago, but more refined with perhaps melodic punk vocal choruses akin to that of The Fluid,
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 103, July 2022 A Strange Happening – s/t No normal band would sample a sizable chunk of the “The House in Cypress Canyon” episode of the radio series Suspense originally broadcast on December 5, 1946 for the introduction to an album. Much less follow that up with
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 102, June 2022 Bryon Parker – 3 Consecutive Championships Bryon Parker uses an almost processionally repetitive drum beat to frame the narrative of “Alma Mater.” Its tale of the low-aspiration-having virtues celebrated by people who don’t know better, for whom being the captain of the high school
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 101, May 2022 ADULT. – Becoming Undone On the surface, this most recent ADULT. album seems the most eclectic and stylistically untogether. But it is unified as a reflection of human civilization fragmenting under pressures born of embracing political and economic systems and habits that are inadequate
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 100, April 2022 Dormition – E.P. 2 Reforming in 2021 after a 20-year hiatus, dream pop/slowcore band Dormition offers us its second EP of lush, meditative, ambient pop daydreams. Its sighing dynamics and slowly expansive and winding soundscapes serve as the perfect companion to lyrics that in
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 099, March 2022 Alien Neighborhood – Fear Is The Enemy!!! Ugly & Unlikable, Volume II A kind of sequel to 2020’s volume one, this album finds Jaden William tapping into that emo and power pop vein that made the earlier record so appealing. Making everyday struggles into
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 098, February 2022 flyvee | prodigium asmr Imagine a podcast format soundtrack to taking random peeks into six different Twitch gaming channels and you have some idea of what was created for this release. Like an episodic, strange, science fiction movie cast as music rendered in miniature