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Here Comes The Flood

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Music blogger @ Here Comes The Flood

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I am a music blogger. Covering sonic treats since 2004.  Also resident genius of the best John Cale fan site.  https://herecomestheflood.com https://hanswerksman.com https://linktr.ee/hctf https://fearismansbestfriend.nl

160 Posts

  1. Soft Hearted Scientists: "Waltz of the Weekend" gets the 3LP treatment

    When the members Cardiff based psychedelic band Soft Hearted Scientists were gearing up to record the tracks for what eventually became the Waltz Of The Weekend album, covid happened. After the pandemic had become a thing to be watched in the rearview mirror it took some time to
  2. Nils Petter Molvær @ Norwegian Radio Orchestra: Certainty of Tides

    Norwegian trumpeter and composer Nils Petter Molvær does not like to be stuck into one particular genre. He has explored jazz, ambient and classical, but also dipped his toes in breakbeats and electronics. On his latest album Certainty of Tides , he went for a mellow sound that di
  3. Dutch art rock band Oh Hazar explore the night while dealing with grief on their new single, City Lines . With a funky bass leading the way the song is a journey that is exhilariting and a little scary. Producer Simon Akkermans worked his magic with a smörgåsbord of loops and synth
  4. Mike Keneally and Marcelo Radulovich: Monday

    Multi-instrumentalists Mike Keneally and Marcelo Radulovich are a classic example of a meeting of like-minded musicians, who both have written "out-of-the-box" as the description for their art. The improvisations on Monday are left of left-field as they egged each other to keep t
  5. Jackie Rae Daniels: Stay A While

    Saint Paul based singer, guitarist and violin player Jackie Rae Daniels is on the fence between Americana and strings driven orchestral pop on her Stay A While album. Her voice can be soothing, but make no mistake: there is a toughness in there as well. Also: she does not shun fr
  6. Jumble Hole Clough: Auntie, why does your house smell funny?

    English avant-garde musician Colin Robinson is into investigating generative patterns on the new album Auntie, why does your house smell funny? by his Jumble Hole Clough project. That might seem as a restricting method to come up with something worthwhile and interesting, but bei
  7. Donna Blue: European tour dates

    Dutch retro-pop act Donna Blue will be on tour in Europe in the Spring of 2024 to promote their new album Into the Realm of Love , due for release in March 2024 via Snowstar Records . Lead single Fantasy Girl offers a soft-spoken, psychedelic excursion through a dreamy landscape wh
  8. Pocket Knife Army: Dance Like A Cobra

    Dutch electronic pop duo Pocket Knife Army take the perspective from a woman who is plagued by insecurities on their new single Dance Like A Cobra . She tries hard to be sexy and look cool, calm and collected as she dances the night away, only to get home alone and find that there
  9. Words about music (709): Gustav Mahler

    Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening. Gustav Mahler #music #GustavMahler
  10. Ismena: This Time

    Dutch folk singer Ismena does some serious soul searching on her new album This Time . The emotions were captured while they were still raw and it helped her a bit dealing with heartbreak, depression, and insecurity. She triesto keep her demons at bay by way of piano and acoustic
  11. The Slow Clock: Interpretative Dancing

    Dutch singer and guitarist Harmen Kuiper is back with a new album by his one-man band The Slow Clock Interpretative Dancing , a collection of songs about everyday troubles, like feeling feeling self-conscious and a little bit lost ( Fire Up The Barbecue ) or navigating the minefield
  12. Waves of Dread: Motion

    English shoegaze band Waves of Dread are painting with broad strokes on their new single Motion , building a wall of sound that has the vocalists having their work cut out for them to be heard. A bit of industrial has found its way into their sound, as a counterpoint for their dre
  13. The Vanrays: Put It Out

    Vancouver based garage soul octet The Vanrays channel the classic sound of Stax on their new album Put It Out . It is smooth, but it has an edge (and even some righteous anger). Blue-eyed soul - white artists playing a predominantly black form a music - was a big thing in the mid-
  14. B. Hamilton: Other Lives of Magic and Wonder and Whatever

    Oakland lo-fi garage rock duo B. Hamilton think outside the box on their new EP Other Lives of Magic and Wonder and Whatever . They included a cover of Wand'rin' Star and wrote a song inspired by Tyler Wagner . They try to get away from the usual fare, without foregoing catchy melo
  15. Spottiswoode: I Have So Many Friends

    As a songwriter, Jonathan Spottiswoode should have gotten the same recognition that is bestowed on Rufus Wainwright, Ray Davies, Randy Newman, and ... wait for it ... Leonard Cohen, many, many years ago. Until that day finally arrives, he will have to make do with being New York
  16. Jonny Strykes: Stripped Strykes Vol. I

    Jonny Strykes , nom-de-plume of Nashville-based musician and producer Jon Loyd , set up shop @ Rapport Records to record three stripped down songs for Stripped Strykes Vol. I : Painted Love , Love In Your Eyes , and Save Yourself . » Full story on Here Comes The Flood #music #reviews #in
  17. The Garment District: Left on Coast

    The members The Garment District , a psych pop band led songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Baron , sound unashamedly retro on their new single Left on Coast . With tons of echo and reverb, they channel the leftfield sound of the late 60s: dreamy vocals having a gentle tug
  18. Rone with Orchestre National De Lyon: L​(​oo​)​ping

    Two worlds meet on L(oo)ping . Rone , stage name of French electronic music producer Erwan Castex , is still reeling from the performances at the Auditorium de Lyon in December last year when he teamed up with fellow electronic musician Cesar Urbina , the Orchestre National de Lyon a
  19. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. Plato
  20. Claudio Cataldi: The Age of Nova

    Claudio Cataldi has put together The Age of Nova , a special album for 19th Dream of Dr Sardonicus Festival . The singer-songwriter from Palermo, Sicily is firmly ensconced in the bluesy, psych-pop of the late 60s, albeit with a modern twist like relying on drum programming for the

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