Seattle’s Patrick Galactic combines folk sensibilities with spacey atmospherics on his debut EP, Running from the Sun. Traditional song structures are adorned with bleeps, bloops and futuristic synth washes, never yielding to full ambient abstraction but flirting with enough aural candy to keep things interesting.
Sam Wingspan – I have listened to Light Upon The Lake, the debut album by Whitney, three times in a row now. Not because I have a super analytical brain that needs to pick it apart like I’m watching Eraserhead on three cups of coffee; it’s because I have simply wanted to hear it again and again.
Promote This is a long-running NadaMucho.com feature wherein we write about songs and videos by emerging and unsigned bands. This installment includes Campana, David Johnson, and the Pro-Nouns.
Stephanie Oster – Swedish duo The Radio Dept. recently stopped by Seattle club Neumos, touring on their politically-charged fourth album, Running Out Of Love. The group put on a subtle, lovely performance that included new single “Swedish Guns,” a haunting takedown of the Swedish arms industry.
Darren Selector – Keyboard Money Mark, longtime auxiliary member of the Beastie Boys, once compared the group’s discography to The Beatles’. He was fan of pretty much everything the two bands did, noting that both groups released ONLY high quality material and both group continually expanded their sound through variety and innovation.
