It’s a special Saturday edition of Get it or Forget it, since we have sooooo many reviews to do. Check out these amazing indie artists and choose your favorites.
Artist Name: Kim Cameron and Side FX
Album Name: Carpe Musicam
Label: Side FX Partners
Genre: House/Dub/Chill/Trance/EDM
Track Listing: 1. Fearless Lovers (Bimbo Bahamas Mix); 2. Fearless Lovers (Bimbo Bahamas Radio Mix); 3. Fearless Lovers; 4. Fearless Lovers (Bimbo New X Dub); 5. Let Me Ask You; 6. Share My Pillow (Bahner Remix); 7. Share My Pillow (Deep House Session Serkan Demirel); 8. Share My Pillow (Wow Jones Remix); 9. Share My Pillow Remix (Halo’s Stretch The Sky Mix); 10. Share My Pillow; 11. Side FX Share My Pillow (Serge Voluminus Remix); 12. Sometimes; 13. Take Me Back; 14. Forever (acoustic)
Publicist: EMPKT PR
Review: Unlike many EDM artists, Kim Cameron has a voice and knows how to sing, as demonstrated on the closing acoustic track, “Forever.” She contributes six songs and eight remixes to the project, and leaves us with a desire to get up and dance. Of the dance tracks, our favorite is “Share my Pillow,” especially the version with her band Side FX. If you love to dance, this is the perfect collection for you.
Recommendation: Definitely check her out.
Artist Name: Andy Leon and the GMP
Album Name: The Great Mouse Parade
Label: 1112827 Records
Genre: Pop
Track Listing: 1. Sweetness; 2. Suave; 3. Follow; 4. The Morning After
Publicist: Self-promoted
Review: We have far too few pure voices within the indie music circle, but we have to put Andy Leon in that group. Along with her band, the Great Mouse Parade, Leon has crafted and sings perfect songs that combine elements of indie rock, pop, jazz and folk to form the perfect platform for her music. We simply can’t get enough of her sound and look forward to checking out the band live. All four of these songs are attention-worthy and serve as tasty appetizers for what we are sure is yet to come. Of the four, our favorite track is “Follow.”
Recommendation: Definitely Get this one. This band is going places.
Artist Name: Only Yours
Album Name: Overrun
Label: Pirates Blend Records
Genre: Indie Pop
Track Listing: 1. Doubts; 2. Different; 3. Overrun; 4. By Now; 5. Hamburg; 6. Surely I; 7. Everlasting; 8. Half Alive; 9. Haunted by Love; 10. Stay
Publicist: Auteur Research
Review: Toronto-based indie pop/rock band Only Yours has delivered a masterful gem of a debut album with the release of Overrun. Behind the stunning vocals of Lowell Sostomi, the band turns in great songs that are radio friendly and make you want to hear them again and again. Kicking off the album with the future hit “Doubts,” Only Yours soars and hooks the listener from the first note. This album is ripe with radio singles like the title track, and should propel them into the spotlight as one of the best new acts of 2019.
Recommendation: Don’t hesitate to go Get this one!
Artist Name: Atomic Road Kings
Album Name: Clean up the Blood
Label: Bigtone Records
Genre: Blues
Track Listing: 1. I’ve got Time; 2. Rumors; 3. In Arms Reach; 4. Have Your Way; 5. My way Back Home; 6. Clean up the Blood; 7. Candy Man; 8. Ain’t for Me; 9. You got to Change; 10. Two Sided Story; 11. Vibrations; 12. Back Down South
Publicist: Frank Roszak Promotions
Review: Atomic Road Kings, started by Eric “Jailhouse Von Herzen (Social Distortion), mixes classic gospel, blues and rock and roll to create a down home feeling that would fit perfectly with an evening of good food and drink down in the Mississippi Delta. The raw vocals and guitar playing of Big Jon Atkinson combine seamlessly with Von Herzen’s driving harmonica, coupled with the rhythm section that includes Bill Stuve on double bass/electric bass and Malachi Johnson on drums. This is down and dirty blues, and the shear sexiness of it will make you sweat. If we only could listen to one blues band, it would be the Atomic Road Kings.
Recommendation: Run and Get this one!
Artist Name: Lullwater
Album Name: Voodoo
Label: Self-released
Genre: Alt Rock/Metal
Track Listing: 1. Curtain Call; 2. Dark Divided; 3. Empty Chamber; 4. Similar Skin; 5. This Life; 6. Godlike; 7. Buzzards; 8. Fight of Your Life; 9. Into the Sun; 10. Yellow Bird; 11. Suffer Not
Publicist: Tom George PR
Review: We introduced you to this band earlier this month as their video for “Empty Chamber” was featured as one of the Ten Amazing Videos of March 2019. They have an instantly recognizable hard rock sound that borders on metal, but with the southern rock groove of bands like Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their songs are perfectly suited for placement in film and television, especially the first track “Curtain Call.””Empty Chamber,” “Similar Skin,” “Godlike,” and “Into the Sun.”
Recommendation: If you like your rock hard and love the sound of metal, you will love this band. Definitely check them out.