Tag: American Villain from Rusty Reid

The Soul-Rattling Power of Near Death Experience’s “Shake”

Near Death Experience's single, "Shake," arrived not so much as music, but as a sudden, urgent insistence. It’s London psych-rock-soul alright, but brewed with something fiercely immediate, demanding attention like a ringing telephone in an empty room. The core quartet – Ian Whiteling guiding the trip with vocals and guitar fuzz, Joshua Van Ness laying down a heartbeat that feels both frantic and locked-in,...

Written by T. Brown Finds Peace in the Club on “The Way She Goes”

Written by T. Brown captures a strange, beautiful contradiction on the new single, "The Way She Goes". T. Brown operates as a storyteller obsessed with how an underlying message survives when you twist the energy around it, and here, he drops a lesson in radical acceptance dead in the middle of the club. https://open.spotify.com/artist/73NZQtUd2aUs9g07O6pV3g?si=wqYDIpj6QQ-nmO9DGVe-8g The track rides heavily on a high-pitched, cyclical R&B vocal loop that...

Rusty Reid Unleashes “American Villain” A Musical Indictment Of Political Turmoil

Rusty Reid is such an artist that his indie work is based on the folk-country rock tapestry element to emphasize protest and passion narrative. However,...