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Single Review: 9 o'clock nasty & I am the Unicorn Head - Existential Dread (2022)

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  First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: 9 o'clock nasty & I am the Unicorn Head 9 o'clock nasty & I am the Unicorn Head - Existential Dread Release Date: September 03, 2022 Duration: 02:50 Genre: New Indie / Psychedelic Pop / Post Punk Origin: Leicester , England / Saint Austell , England This shall not become overly (pseudo-)philosophic but life is full of moments and dreams. A moment is when you step on a lego, when you slip on a banana peel while carrying a huge egg box, or when you realize you missed an important deadline. Dreams take place on the other side of your consciousness, and they could be a truck loaded with your favourite cereal crashing into a gigantic pond of almond milk while so...

Single Review: Doll Riot - Get a Life (2022)

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    First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: Alex Tchoukhrova Doll Riot - Get a Life Release Date: September 02, 2022 Duration: 02:17 Genre: Grunge / Punk Rock Origin; Oceanside , CA , USA Oceanside's quartet Doll Riot are a very new band that has already made their first efforts in stirring up the Grunge and Punk Rock scene. Founded in 2020 by four Californian High School students, Doll Riot quickly moved from a garage band that played cover songs by their idols to succesfully releasing their selftitled EP in May 2022. The three tracks of "Doll Riot" can be found on the band's bandcamp page , one of them was also featured on Mango Moday Mixtape #054 . Instead of resting their vertical take off's laurels...

Single Review: Femegades - Be alone (2022)

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First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: Femegades Femegades - Be alone Release Date: July 07, 2022 Label: Regent Street Records Format: Digital Duration: 03:11 Genre: Grunge / Alternative Rock Origin: London , England Ever since the release of their debut EP " Pornsick ", London-based quartet Femegades have constantly shown that they do not hesitate addressing problematic and invonvenient topics regarding gender equality, kyrarchy, or hegemony and violence. Their second EP "Not all men" therefore seamless continues where "Pornsick" ended. In June, the band has teased their audience by releasing the upcoming EP's first ex ante single ' Speechless '. On the first Friday in July 2022, the...

Single Review: Avresa - Leave it all (2022)

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First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: Avresa Avresa - Leave it all Release Date: May 20, 2022 Duration: 03:42 Genre: Indie Rock / Alternative Rock Origin: Sydney , Australia One does not need to believe in neo-liberal and capitalist mantras to realize that the crisis brought by the pandemic has given us new perspectives. A phenomenon called 'The Great Resignation' is causing employees all over the world leaving their jobs and looking for different occupations or ways to combine well-being and income. Also, not only the way we interact has changed but also many relationships have altered, were reborn, or have finally found their overdue end over the past two years. Is it all bad? Is it call good? Definitely neit...

Album Review: Trish Discord - The Aftermath of 2016 (2022) - Guest Feature by Dmitriy Churilov

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  First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Picture Credit: Trish Discord Trish Discord - The Aftermath of 2016 Release Date: June 17, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Genre: Indie Rock / Alternative Rock Origin: Queens , NY , USA Summer 2022 sees the release of Trish Discord’s debut album - an experiment in reinventing pop music from an aspiring american artist. "The Aftermath of 2016" is a therapeutic on many levels and has quite a compelling background. During the years passed, Trish has travelled the world and was caught in the turmoil of the pandemic, political instability and personal struggles. But regardless of the rocky road the album made it to the release and obviously just had to happen. To this moment Trish has already published a couple of songs which made it even more anticipated. As an artist Trish tries an alternative ...

Single Review: Gabrielle Ornate - Free Falling (2022)

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  First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: Gabrielle Ornate Gabrielle Ornate - Free Falling Release Date: May 13, 2022 Label: Minerva Sounds Duration: 02:51 Genre: Indie Rock / Bohemian Pop Origin: Radlett , England Bohemian Pop artist Gabrielle Ornate has become a regular on MangoWave. Click here to find older articles that feature the music by the great musician from Hertfordshire. The recent releases were predominantly coined by colourful and psychedelic soundscapes on which Gabrielle Ornate built immense structures of hypnotizing music, and which conveyed the fantastic narratives of these songs. Without abandoning these features, the artist is presenting a reinvention of her own sound by releasing her la...

EP Review: Buridan's Bridge - Diafora (2022) - Guest Post by Dmitriy Churilov

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 First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Picture Credit: Mark Liedtke Buridan's Bridge - Diafora Release Date: March 25, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Duration: 14:21 Genre: Alternative Rock / Stoner Rock Origin: Hamburg , Germany The serpent takes another bite at its tail as Buridan's Bridge present their reinvention of classic alternative rock straight from 2010. Latest three track EP by the German act is entitled Diafora, which means “different” in Greek. This fits well - we haven’t heard something like that in a while. What comes to mind when Nocturnal starts playing? Well, it’s the best band in the whole fucking world which is of course The Alkaline Trio. Jokes aside, Buridan's Bridge manages to connect all the best value points of dramatic punk (thanks to cello and choirs), emo and alt rock, covering the territories conque...