All Your Pretty Faces Are Smiling At Me

Kevin Blechdom “Invisible ROCK” – Kevin Blechdom’s new album Eat My Heart Out sounds like an off-off-off broadway one woman show marrying cheesy, homemade electropop showtunes with a startling personal narrative dealing with clinical depression and crippling self-awareness. Though the music is often awash in a sea of extreme irony, the lyrics are grounded and highly relatable, most of them detailing Blechdom’s struggle to overcome her issues. Though most music on the topic of depression wallows in sorrow and self-pity, Blechdom has written an admirable set of self-help anthems. (Click here to buy it from Boomkat.)

Richard Reagh & wwnb2 “Friends” – Richard Reagh’s music is like a peculiar cross between Built To Spill at their most mellow and the fractured, amorphous laptop compositions of Joan Of Arc and The Dirty Projectors. As Reagh attempts to repair a rift in a relationship that appears to be on the verge of total collapse in the lyrics, the arrangement seems to reflect his emotional state by feeling hollow, passive, and vaguely tense. (Click here to visit the official Richard Reagh site.)