New Music Sunday -- Mackintosh Braun
I'm back with a new band for the always popular New Music Sunday. After a drought of new and interesting bands, here's one that caught my ear and hopefully it catches yours as well.
This week's band is Mackintosh Braun, hailing from Portland, Oregon. Portland has great music scene and has produced such bands as The Dandy Warhols
, The Decemberists
, and Modest Mouse
. New York transplants Ian Mackintosh and Ben Braun are excellent additions to the scene.
The first single from their Chop Shop Records debut, Where We Are
, entitled "Could It Be," is a great synthesizer-based track that sounds right at home in either a crowded club or in your iPod. It's not as early '80's sounding as La Roux or as poppy as Owl City, it's much deeper; a lusher sound and more expressive lyrics than usually found in synthesizer tracks. According to the band, their sound is "exciting and innovative, but that's also familiar" and I found it to be very innovative and still familiar. It pushes the boundaries of alternative music to where they intersect with chillout and trance and yet it retains the emotion that pure electronic music often lacks. The entire album continues the theme of expanding alternative and dance music to where fans of either will find Mackintosh Braun worth a listen.
Buy Now on iTunes or Amazon
.
This week's band is Mackintosh Braun, hailing from Portland, Oregon. Portland has great music scene and has produced such bands as The Dandy Warhols
, The Decemberists, and Modest Mouse. New York transplants Ian Mackintosh and Ben Braun are excellent additions to the scene.The first single from their Chop Shop Records debut, Where We Are
, entitled "Could It Be," is a great synthesizer-based track that sounds right at home in either a crowded club or in your iPod. It's not as early '80's sounding as La Roux or as poppy as Owl City, it's much deeper; a lusher sound and more expressive lyrics than usually found in synthesizer tracks. According to the band, their sound is "exciting and innovative, but that's also familiar" and I found it to be very innovative and still familiar. It pushes the boundaries of alternative music to where they intersect with chillout and trance and yet it retains the emotion that pure electronic music often lacks. The entire album continues the theme of expanding alternative and dance music to where fans of either will find Mackintosh Braun worth a listen.Buy Now on iTunes or Amazon
.
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