Young Man is the project of of 23-year-old Brooklyn singer/songwriter Colin Caulfield. As for the current trend, his name is fictional character. Fate is an updated indie rock song, touched with a bit of dream pop. Let's give the pseudonyms to fly.
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Felix Green and Sea Oleena
Holobody has just premiered their video for "Riverbed". The video was directed by illustrator/animators Ana Mouyis and Zachary Zezima with additional artwork by Luke Loseth to capture the songs underlying idea of "life, death, rebirth and ultimate nirvana".
Riverhood is the first release from Holobody, the sibling duo of Felix Green and Sea Oleena, who’ve together crafted a masterpiece from elements of gospel, hip-hop, and electronically-propelled folk. Riverbed is a beautiful hymn of death and rebirth with a chorus washed in reverb. Sounds seem to merge and collapse, until the listener paddles into the void and disappears. All of these pieces are drawn together on Riverhood into a whole that is lush, vibrant, and extraordinarily inviting.
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Felix Green and Sea Oleena (siblings Luke and Charlotte Loseth) combine to form the genre-spanning indie-pop group Holobody. Raised in a musical family in Saskatchewan, Canada, the two have been collaborating since childhood, making music and art together and contributing to each other’s individual recording projects. Under the pseudonym Felix Green, Luke has released bedroom pop albums on his own and also served as a producer for two albums by his sister. The two artists merge their songwriting approaches, exploring their lifelong penchant for percussive experimentation and crafting infectious indie-pop that drifts between the ethereal and concrete. If you're placing yourselves among Hipsters Music's loyal readers, you would surly love their stuff.
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Oldscholled hipster. Laura Burhenn
The Mynabirds return with Body of Work, a new track from their eagerly awaited upcoming album GENERALS, out June 5th on Saddle Creek, With syncopated beats layered on top of Laura Burhenn's gospel inspired tone. Burhenn explains that the track represents our ability to constantly remodel our lives into anything we want, regardless of what the past holds; “we are living things, bodies of work to edit". Somebody said a dancer?.
GENERALS is both a protest record and concept album. It's fueled by a full decade of Burhenn's political frustration and aimed at finding a revolutionary yet pacifist way in a world where, these days, it seems warring comes quick. Musically you can hear echoes of early PJ Harvey, politically-charged Nina Simone and Low-era David Bowie. It gets down and hip hop dirty, flirts with African melodies and rhythms, goes four-on-the-floor for all out dance jams and has plenty of percussion. Burhenn even plays drums herself on a couple of songs. She sings the voice of frustration, then moves beyond that.
"I needed it to be transformative – of both the individual and the body politic. It's as much a meditation on Walt Whitman's hope for America as Gandhi's directive to 'be the change you want to see in the world.'" [Laura Burhenn]
