So my work study job is to review cd's. I'm pretty sure no one in the radio station reads the reviews so I'm going to start posting them here too. RIYL means similar bands and I don't know how to do a fancy 5 star rating system so im going to use ***** 10 stars being the highest.

Blood and Sunshine

EP (self-released)

Blood and Sunshine is a San Francisco native band that relies on creating interesting beats using a mass amount of different instruments and sounds. This is a moody electro sounding album that is extremely dark. The

RIYL: Moby, Orbital

***3/10

Zee Avi

EP (Bushfire Records)

Izyan Allrahman, also known as Zee Avi is a signer/songwriter from Borneo that landed her first record deal when Raconteurs drummer Patrick Keeler discovered her youtube channel. Keeler showed the videos to Monotone Record’s Ian Montone. Zee Avi creates pleasant acoustic guitar based songs with Zooey Deschanel-esque singing.

RIYL: Sondre Lerche, Jack Johnson

********8/10

Iron and Wine

Around the Well (Subpop)

Sam Beam is an Austin native that creates acoustic driven “sleepy” folk songs. Sam’s whispery instantly puts me to a calmer state of mind. This album is a collection of songs and performances from the past few years.

RIYL: The Mountain Goats, Nick Drake, Noah and the Whale

*********9/10

The Everday Visuals

The Everday Visuals (self-released)

The Everyday Visuals have a good a variety of up-beat songs along with mellower ones as well. The beats and guitar riffs are really catchy but the lyrics sometimes feel awkward and not really sing-a-long-able. The album seems really

lo-fi at certain parts but in a good way.

RIYL: Sea Wolf, The Shins

******6/10