Jennie Vee: Post Punk Diva

Let's be clearly prejudiced about the fact that beautiful nostalgic blondes confessing that they are influenced by bands such as The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain's, The Smiths, Sisters of Mercy or Echo and The Bunnymen at pre-adolescent age least with a crush on record labels such like Creation or 4AD are hard to find.

Jennie Vee the stunning Canadian musician born in a desolate mining town north of Ontario presently a New Yorker by adoption fits the profile perfectly.

Her gorgeous first EP titled Die Alone released last September demonstrates the ambition of redefining post punk through a bunch of guitar driven captivating songs in a honey dripping voice blasting painful melodies filled with words of melancholy and isolation.

Early this year she released the anthemic single Never Let You Down in anticipation of a most awaited debut album expected to be out throughout this year.

Check out Jennie Vee's music here and support her for a continuing successful career.

Pinkshinyultrablast: From Russia With Love

Almost of a sudden from St Petersburg tedious indie scene emerged a visionary noise gaze band, fronted by some sort of a russian Elizabeth Fraser.

The band members Igor, Lyubov, Sergey, Rustam, and Roman reunite under the name of Pinkshinyultrablast honouring the title of an Astrobrite's album.

Mostly influenced by the spirit of British bands like Ride and Lush their influences are much wider than that spanning from electronic to krautrock.

Last January marked the release of their awaited debut album Everything Else Matters.

Benjamin Verdoes: Troubadour For The Modern Times

I usually stumble hazardously into musicians previously unknown to me for the simple motif that i either like the title of an album or the album cover or a song title which pushes me into imagining how the music would sound like.

I know this seems devoid of rational criteria but who cares if this pays off? After all i bought my first Echo and Bunnymen only because i got fond of the "Heaven Up Here" album cover. And the same happened with Husker Du "Candy Apple Grey" and with so many others. In a word I trust the fine art of finding awesome music intuitively.

This made me discover Benjamin Verdoes work. Who is the guy? He was part of Seattle indie rockers Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band and Iska Dhaaf before he made the decision to pursue a solo career. The Evil Eye released on Brick Lane Records in January 2014 is Benjamin Verdoes spell bounding début solo album. One of the best musical legacies from last year according to INDIEVOTION.

The Evil Eye delivers emotional smooth gentle moody indie pop ranging from luminous sunbathing sceneries and joyful open spaces to darker closed confrontational ones layered with edgy guitars and incisive drumming filled with nostalgic keyboarding and vocals calling for longingness.

The experience of listening to Benjamin Verdoes sonic proposal triggered my aural memory to the work of Mark Mulcahy and Miracle Legion. There are so many poetic and atmospheric similarities between Benjamin and Mark that I’ll outrageously dare say that “Me and Mr. Ray” Miracle Legion's album might have subconsciously inspired Benjamin Verdoes to make his stunningly solo album sound almost like a love poem.

Springtime Carnivore: Dream Poppin'...

Springtime Carnivore is Greta Morgan's most recent music project. Once associated with Gold Motel and The Hush Sound she also toured as guitarist for the ex-Vivian Girls Katy Goodman's La Sera.

Springtime Carnivore released the first album last November and Greta Morgan whose lifetime dream would be living in some sort of a Beach Boys good vibrations state of mind forever more, unsurprisingly defines her music as some sort of Technicolor Daydream Pop.

Spanning her musical influences from The Beatles, Peter Paul and Mary to Nick Drake and Bob Dylan, she concedes that under such influence her songwriting structures turned out to be rather classic, balancing between poppy harmonies and less cheerful, though beautiful, folk balladeries.

Her songs are filled with shadowy fuzzy guitars, moving along drumming and 60s dreamy voicings that pushes you back to festive warm sunsets on the beach and to some happy feeling of longing for places, people and circumstances that are not there any more though they keep making you comfortably not numb which is why Greta Morgan Springtime Carnivore aims at making music against the zombiefication of the human spirit.

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