Jennie Vee Takeover
Photographer: Corinne Schiavone Facebook || Instagram || Twitter Seamlessly combining the melancholic and gritty with the dreamy and wistful, LA-based artist Jennie Vee is on ANON Magazine’s radar this week. Growing up in small town Ontario, Vee had an affinity for dark, post-punk acts like The Cure and Joy Division. Moving from Canada to England, Nashville and New York, Vee settled into the city to record her debut album, Spying, and play solo gigs. Establishing significant connections with visual artist Katrin Albert and Grammy award winning producer Chris Lord-Alge, she also spent the spring of 2015 playing bass with Courtney Love on the Endless Summer Tour with Lana Del…
Album Review: The Dan Ryan – Guidance
Album Review: The Dan Ryan – Guidance by Trish Connelly Yearning for something beyond a grounded narrative, The Dan Ryan’s upcoming album, Guidance, takes their listeners on a multi-faceted journey through psychedelic realms and textural folk-ambience. Marking Chicago-native and Austin-based Nathan Dixey’s second release from Cosmic Dreamer, Guidance flows like intimate poetry, each track painting a vast, scenic landscape full of emotional conflict and transition. Dixey’s intentions resound strong with his opening track “Ring Them Bells (Carrion Crow)”, conjuring an unwavering voice resisting passivity alongside mesmerizing and tribal instrumentals. The Dan Ryan carry meditative chants and looping sonic soundscapes in their title track, navigating through cosmic territory by breaking borders…
The Besnard Lakes Are A Mystical World of Their Own: An Interview with Olga Goreas
What began as the band’s namesake and getaway for inspiration, The Besnard Lakes’ yearly retreat to their cabin at Besnard Lake in rural Saskatchewan was nearly compromised after a ring of fire surrounded it for several days last year. Perhaps the realization of the ephemerality of things near and dear to the band helped to further enhance their expanded soundscapes and soaring psychedelia in their fifth album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, to be released tomorrow on JagJaguwar. I was more than happy to have the opportunity to interview bassist and vocalist Olga Goreas about the band’s upcoming album, the supernatural influences surrounding their music and visuals, and where the…
Sneak Preview: Matthew Anderson’s Lunar Tide
Ohio-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter and composer Matthew Anderson has been immersed in creating music for as far back as he can remember. Defining music as a sense of “discovery”, Anderson succeeds in interweaving aspects of contemporary classical, rock, pop, folk, and jazz music into a work that’s both new and profound. His new solo record, Lunar Tide, is set to be released on Tuesday, July 7th. His album features performances from Ricky Petraglia (Carbon Mirage, Ponyhof), Finnegan Shanahan (Contemporaneous, Jherek Bischoff), along with other guests, and was mastered by Joe Lambert (Sharon Van Etten, The National, Johnny Cash, Washed Out). You can keep up to date with Matthew Anderson and…
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s “Multi-Love”
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s new album, Multi-Love, set to be released on May 26th, has already garnered much positive attention. Frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ruban Nielson concocts a new spin on love – what happens with three individuals join together and the complications that inevitably ensue. Nielson aims to create a sound he can call his very own, experimenting with added dimensions and synths. “It felt good to be rebelling against the typical view of what an artist is today, a curator…. it’s more about being someone who makes things happen in concrete ways. Building old synthesizers and bringing them back to life, creating sounds that aren’t quite like anyone else’s.…
