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Frank Gappa - Move the Needle (Slow Dance Records)
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (150+ words) Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover This first release since a change in life and location proves that Gappa hasn't lost any of the sonic smarts that he displayed on 2024's Let…...
CS Hellmann - Don't Let The Songbirds Cry (self-released)
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (209+ words) Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover In a world where (I know that sounds a bit AI written, I assure you it is not. But that is the sort of thing that…...
W'LFFE - Holiday From My Mind(CUB RECORDS)
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (347+ words) W'LFFE - Holiday From My Mind (CUB RECORDS)The Big Takeover If most songs that are described as taking the listener on a sonic journey tend to go from soft to loud, from spacious to bombastic, "Holiday From My Mind" takes…...
Near Death Experience (NDX) - Flight (Charisma Bypass)
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (115+ words) Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover That's not to say that theirs isn't a unique and identifiable sound; familiar, yes, but still often unexpected and unsecond-guessable. "Flight" oozes the psychedelic twilight that…...
N'o confundir com - Cumprir qualquer prop'sito (Robalo Music)
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (126+ words) Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover In its brevity, "N'o confundir com um coral s'nico" evokes communal resonance, voices and instruments intertwining to suggest a choir not bound to text but bonded…...
Aarktica - Trick of the Light (The Ellipsist remix)(Hanaq Pacha Records)
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (169+ words) Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover And so it is here. Whereas in Aarktica's original form, "Trick of the Light" was a place where ambient atmospheres ran with cinematic richness, to create…...
Jessye De Silva - Glitter Up the Dark(self-released)
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (363+ words) Jessye De Silva - Glitter Up the Dark (self-released)The Big Takeover You hardly have to be told that Jessye De Silva and her collaborator and producer, Aaron Lee Tasjan, set out to explore the idea of unabashed joy on this…...
Interview: Nina Cates & Zack James (Robber Robber)
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (1969+ words) Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover But somewhere along the way, that changed. Or maybe it came back. That band is Robber Robber. Across 11 tracks and a lean 30 minute runtime, Two Wheels…...
Jangle, Joy, and Survival: Inside "Lucky Now" with Lande Hekt
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (598+ words) Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover Her latest work on Tapete Records marks a definitive chapter of artistic maturity, blending the melodic sensibilities of classic 80s indie with a contemporary, searing honesty. Here,…...
Roomful of Teeth/Gabriel Kahane - Elevator Songs (Octoverse)
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (322+ words) bigtakeover. com Roomful of Teeth has long pushed boundaries on what a choir can do, using their mouthes, tongues, and throats for more than simply singing or humming. Singer/songwriter/composer Gabriel Kahane consistently ignores the boundaries between pop, theater,…...