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News: SheBeat - Homecoming Queen (2021)

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Picture Credit: SheBeat   SheBeat - Homecoming Queen Release Date: March 21, 2021 Length: 02:42 Genre: Indie Rock / Twee Origin: Edinburgh , Scotland Less than two months, ago SheBeats single "Believe" was featured in the Discoveries of the Week . Today, we are listening to the most recent release "Homecoming Queen" - the song that the artist calls her own favourite of her releases so far. So, let's listen to the song about the "hometown bird" who "lives her life so easily" - God Save the Homecoming Queen! Homecoming Queen by SheBeat SheBeat provides us with an upbeat and harmonic sound here. The dynamic acoustic guitar is accompanied by a sonorous bass, energetic percussions and moving shakers. Twee, Indie Rock, Beat, and BritPop merge to a wholesome sound. SheBeat's "Homecoming Queen" is defined by steady movement and activating rhythms. Together with the artist's catchy vocals, this boppy track immediately triggers wande...

EP Review: Robot Death Monkey - Druid Odyssey (2021)

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Picture Credit: Robot Death Monkey Artwork: Rhy Wootton Robot Death Monkey - Druid Odyssey Release Date: 05 February, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 22:36 Genre: Stoner Rock Origin: Edinburgh , Scotland Scotland's Robot Death Monkey are a "beer drinkin's stoner groove machine", as it says on their Bandcamp profile. You had ma at beer. The quartet seems to have an interesting taste in humour and films. Their recent EP features a song called 'Bubba Ho-Tep', the legendary film in which Bruce Campbell  and Ossie Davis  fight a mummy in a retirement, as well as the the track 'Trejo' which might either be an hommage to actor Danny Trejo  or a display of affection to alcohol and marijuana. I can only guess since the lyrics are in Spanish. Druid Odyssey by ROBOT DEATH MONKEY Music-wise, the six-track EP is defined by powerful and heavily rolling Stoner Rock. If you love the works by Peruvian band El Jefazo , you will highly enjoy this one, too...