Best New Rock – Cari Cari, Straylings, Bag Of Cans, Good Luck Club

We adore the stylistic pomp Cari Cari brings to their new single Schmetterling.  The devil is in the details.  It’s not what you do, but how you do it.  An inspired vamp stays relevant courtesy of the thoughtful sound design.  The build collides intriguingly with the contrast offered by the vocal part. 

They bring dreamy contrast in a way that blends the aesthetics of Blondie, Jefferson Airplane, and LCD Soundsystem.  We’re into it. 

Cari Cari is featured on our Best New Rock Playlist.  

Straylings tackles the experience of a foreign American Kid with their new single.  It’s some effective nostalgia.  It honors the bands tutelage.  You can hear the influence of Jefferson Airplane and Fleetwood Mac in a way that’s refreshing. 

The vocal performance is convincing and the band responds with an effective arrangement that equally honors the times.  We can dig it. 

American Kid is featured on our Best New Rock Playlist.  

Bag Of Cans have a lot to say about their Favourite Shirt.  This cheeky post punk tirade is true to form.  It’s full of sarcastic attitude and classic punk rhetoric. 

For us it bridges the gap between Parquet Courts and first wave punk.  It starts measured and rises to a complete outburst.  It’s absolutely quotable and overall dangerously addictive.  It’s meant to enwrap you; to whip a live audience into a frenzy – and it delivers into its final moments.  Go ape shit.  We love it. 

Bag Of Cans are featured on our All New Rock Playlist.  

We were seduced by the intoxicating vocal performance found within Circles, the new single by Good Luck Club

The main progression doesn’t try to recreate the wheel.  It cites the bands influences while effectively showing how they can adapt anything and make it their own.  We hear a hint of Coldplay and Spoon warped fresh by the singers rare presence.  Like the song suggests, she’ll spin you ‘round dizzy.  Try to resist it.  You can’t. 

Get into Circles now on our All New Rock Playlist.  

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