Friday, May 21, 2021

Pop Evil: Versatile, out now (21st May 2021)

Pop Evil
Pop Evil, O2 Islington, London, UK - 2019

If you pre-ordered Pop Evil's new album, Versatile, today is the day - for a real treat. If you didn't pre-order: today's the day to buy your copy.

         

 Available from all the usual outlets.Today!

There is always such an energy, a power, with Pop Evil's music - moving you onwards, forwards, through and through. A driving force, drums and bass behind everything. This is so strong beginning with the opening track, "Let the Chaos Reign" and even greater in "Work" - if you're looking for a new workout song, this is it. Then it moves into something more gentle; "Inferno" is rather beautiful... there's a distant quality to the song, almost underwater, "slowly sinking in sand".

Leigh Kakaty, vocals, Pop Evil
Leigh Kakaty, vocals, Pop Evil

Leigh Kakaty and Hayley Cramer, Pop Evil
Leigh Kakaty and Hayley Cramer, Pop Evil

Several of these songs were released online before today... hearing them within the context of the entire album brings them even more to light.

I apologise... I intended to write a much more in-depth review. Instead, I just want to listen to this music. On repeat. You should try it too.

Upcoming tour dates: https://popevil.com/tour-dates/ I really, really hope to be at Aftershock Festival. Fingers crossed, vaccinated, tested... everything crossed that international travel is allowed by then! (As my family is spread across several countries and continents, so is Pop Evil: I'm wondering how the band-family is handling this (drummer Hayley Cramer is based in the UK; rest of the band in the USA). 

More Pop Evil:

Concert at the O2, Islington, London UK

Ace of Spades, Sacramento, California

Chicago Open Air festival

All the Pop Evil photo galleries

Matt DiRito, bass, Pop Evil
Matt DiRito, bass, Pop Evil


Thursday, May 20, 2021

What I've been listening to lately

 Suddenly. So many new album releases - and so much that I'd just missed. So much good music. Here are just a few that I've been listening to recently.

Chaoseum: it was this song that grabbed my attention - sounds so much like Korn - but listen to the entire album Second Life, and their music is their own. The band hails from Switzerland and are very much worth a listen.


Paul Weller: his latest album, Fat Pop, has been on repeat. It's something special and it's very alive. (If like me you have a ticket to his much-moved tour, the latest dates are here.) To go with the release, the Modfather and friends made this live video:


Myles Kennedy: also released last week, Myles' second solo album, The Ides of March. This one is to listen to over and over again - you discover something new on each listening (and this is exactly how I listen to it - you can't beat vinyl at home). Great voice.:


And something a little different: Gleb Kolyadin's solo album, Water Movements. It's liquid and it's calm and it's beautiful. You may know Gleb Kolyadin from the duo/band Iamthemorning. Listen to Water Movements here: