“Alternative pop with heart and soul in the style of classic songwriting”
From the singer-songwriter trenches, where every chord carries weight: Ian Cat's East Coast New England Boy chronicles homesickness and longing with layered guitars that bend like suspension bridges — "if Wilco had written Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in the proud grungy style of a 1990s Britpop band" — while the double-sided "Baggage Claim / Purgatory Blues" delivers an emotional blast from the heart with searing solos to match. Barrelly Ego's Bearly Eagle tackles a decade of socio-geo-political upheaval with allegorical teeth. Brian Jin's Horizons finds divinity in strange places — Hawaiian-cowboy-ukulele-jazz, dream-dictated Lennon appearances, and mandolin meditations — while Sophie Noel's after the sun hit the roof blends "forest floor pop" and eerie atmospherics to explore solastalgia in a haunted house.
“A heartfelt, genre-blending indie folk album, 'Colin Rooney' delivers raw emotion, tender storytelling, and uplifting resilience through intimate songs that speak to love, loss, and the courage to ...”
“Seamlessly transitioning through psyche-rock, college rock and the most winsome of singer-songwriter genre with absolute jangly intent.”