The Music Rag

Wildwood Stone /  by E

Equal parts haunting and beautiful, Tim Muddiman and The Strange's "Wildwood Stone" offers stark lyrics, ominous tones, and a hypnotic melody that wears and stretches dizzyingly out until the listener is thoroughly entranced. The emphasis lies in articulate lines dripping of promises from a hopeless romantic with a realistic streak while a pretty, trepidatious piano lures you in and the accompanying video ties it together so you can't look away. 

Check out the single and the links below for more from the band.

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Hollow /  by E

A catchy hook and steady build promise an explosive chorus and bigger bridge on Double Lined Minority's "Hollow" that the band eagerly delivers with ease. 

While the track reeks of mature angst and expectedly uttered oaths, there's an unforgettable quality to its palpable urgency and simple longing that'll have you hitting replay and turning it up until you can feel the bass in your chest. 

Find out more about Double Lined Minority in the links below.

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When The Needle Drops /  by E

Liverpudlian trio Kids On Bridges offers up a dry commentary on the modern music scene with their passively titled "When The Needle Drops". 

If the band's to the point lyrics and delicately put production doesn't make their opinion clear enough, the single's video works to emphasize the current obsession with appearance over substance, easily projecting the ever-changing faces onto willfully blank canvases in the wonderfully weird, slightly catty, and wholly fantastic video.

Catch the single featuring vocals from Shea Seger and head to the sites below for more from Kids On Bridges.

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