Category: Musical Miner

The outlet of Nostos Nic: Music Journalist, to include concert reviews, mixes, current obsessions, jukebox classics, and artist profiles.

Daily Dose: AroarA, “#14”

What I love most about AroarA’s In The Pines is the album’s unpredictable intelligence. Each song could almost stand alone in genre and form, but instead of leading to incohesion they function like wind chimes–the longer they reverberate off one another, the more organic the sound becomes. With lead vocals that switch from feminine to masculine, tempos that consistently shift, and pared-down layers of instrumentation that pop in and out, In The Pines is weighted by a sense of whimsy that is playful yet commanding. Quintessentially Montreal in sound, so fun and eclectic that it’s impossible to be bored; a great Saturday in the city soundtrack.

Daily Dose: Tame Impala, “Let It Happen”

The first Daily Dose back from a long absence is the first track from Tame Impala’s newest and most amazingest album, Currents. This band has been a talking point on Nostos Algos many a-time, and here they are again–delivering a synthed-out sixties trip for the modern era. Love these guys, love this album: an album that you should buy since they’ll actually get royalties from it now!