The New Sound

“There Is a Place For Us”  Nicolay Nicolay’s album City Lights, Vol. 3: Soweto is a fantastic and renewing experience, and I recommend listening to it in its entirety. However, the song I continue to find myself drawn to is the mediative album closer “There Is a Place for Us.” This plaintive instrumental feels like summer gently fading way to autumn. Warm synths, percussion, and handclaps propel the contemplative song along at a measured pace… drifting along, as though a cloud. The synths drop in like a meteor shower viewed from Earth…  each one a dazzling and dizzying moment.  Towards the end of the song a restrained yet ecstatic keyboard lifts the listener from of the grips of gravity, briefly soaring above the clouds... leaving the cares of existence below. My only complaint is that this escape always feels much too brief.  No matter my mood, this song is a calming salve and clears my fretful mind. The idealistic title brings to mind the op...

“When you hear our music you can be healed and feel happy.” -Ahin The Bscs Momoland (often stylized as MOMOLAND or MMLND) are a South Korean girl group comprised of nine members: Hyebin , Yeonwoo , Jane , Taeha , Nayun , Daisy , Jooe , Ahin , and Nancy . Momoland were formed through the reality program Finding Momoland and the group debuted on November 10, 2016. Momoland’s debut mini album Welcome to MOMOLAND , was released on the same day. Momoland’s second mini album, Freeze! , was released August 2, 2017. (Source: generasia ) One of the unifying threads omnipresent throughout Momoland’s music is the precise production. All of Momoland’s songs are textured and complicated soundscapes. The percussion is industrial and hard-hitting, sparkling synths shimmer, snag, and screech, while multi-layered, pitch-shifted vocals float above the production like seraphic spun-sugar. The whole experience is a bit like being delightfully punched in the face with candied brass knuckl...