Topshelf Records: For Your Consideration…
for your consideration:
CDs
Picture this: it’s you, on a late night drive, days are really starting to run together right now and sometimes you just gotta mix it up a little bit, so you drive out of town to see the stars without all those bright city lights, or maybe you drive into the city to see the bright city lights, either way, anyway, you reach down into your console to fish out a selection of brand new CDs from your friends over at Topshelf Records, you pop one in, you take a deep breath, it’s a good night…
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addy Eclipse
The Richmond, VA artist serves up a debut album of contemplative magic on the terrain of eloquent, country-reminiscent instrumentation, ASMR-inducing textures, and Casio-sequenced drum hooks.
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Standards Fruit Island
Led by the exuberant melodies of cross-tapping guitarist Marcos Mena, the LA duo Standards make meticulous instrumental math-rock whose effervescent riffs teem with sunny enthusiasm. On the band’s debut full-length, Fruit Island, Standards deftly retool math-rock’s unforgiving, challenging tendencies into a style that is both danceable and compositionally profound. Drummer Forrest Rice’s boisterous chops complement Mena’s unpredictable melodies, grounding the unusual self-dueling riffs and balancing the bright compositions with tasteful fills and immaculate syncopations.
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