Lav's Music Corner

ULTRA PARADISE  - Angel Electronics Angel Electronics is a new music project from Black Dresses' Ada Rook and collaborator Ash Nerve. Putting the album into genre categories is exceedingly difficult as it blends pop punky refrains and sentiments with layering of screamo vocals and crushing metal guitars. Of course, as you'd expect there's also a thick electronic haze over everything and a vast array of synth leads heard across the record. So yeah, it's a bit of a whirlwind but that chaos is clearly on purpose and it keeps you from ever knowing where the album will go next. One thing I absolutely didn't expect this record to be was cute, but it's insanely cute. Not only are the sentiments here often overwhelmingly lovely but they're also played with an angsty pop-punk sentiment that is pulled off earnestly. Highlights like Party Girl  and One Thousand And One Nights  are genuinely adorable songs that if played only slightly less chaotic would be the kind of t...

  Icons  EP - Two Shell Two Shell is an electronic music project that has been turning heads this year with their new EP and also their anonymity with controversial live performances and evocative interviews. I've seen many, including myself, compare their early buzz to that of Sophie, A.G. Cook and the early P.C. Music scene, though projecting them to have that level of quality or impact is more than presumptuous. But all of that was mainly just to draw attention to the music and once you actually crack down into the songs on this new EP of theirs, they're pretty good. While I wouldn't call their loud and brash take on house music and electronica all that groundbreaking there is a distinct industrial and garage messiness to their style that stood out to me immediately the first time I heard a song like Pods . I will say that once I got to listen to this EP in full I was surprised by how much more polished the rest of the songs were as they take a much more wonky and humoro...