Uniforms new album starts off with a very gothy synth electro vibe. The 80’s synth accentuated with a blazing distorted guitar is a nice opening to the 10 track album “Fantasia Moral”. Track 2 “Brazil” starts with the jangly indie…
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EVERY DAMN DAY TIME TRAVEL TO UNVEIL A NEW TRACK
Every Damn Day boasts a thirty year career and on their newest track “Audio” the band takes a track written over 30 years ago and adds vocals and additional instrumentation. The band says this of the track “The song pays…
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BloodMakesNoise Playlist: Mint 400 Records Spotlight (THIS BLISS, & POGGY) 1/29/21 By Neil Sabatino
So full disclosure I run a record label and I’ve come to an agreement with Blood Makes Noise to let me promote releases every week. The idea is every week I will present a playlist with some new Mint 400…
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Hudson Valley's The Racer release "Collections"
The band states: “'Collections' is a group of songs that were written over the last few years but never found a home on any of The Racer’s previous albums as they were each made in their own particular style guided…
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Sam's take on the charts!
The Avalanches “We Will Always Love You” Asteralworks
WTF? A 25 track album? Aint nobody got time for that. I mean everything I heard from it is great, but I don’t think I’m dedicating an hour to any album all…
The Vanishing Lines release brooding, fuzzed out debut via Shore Dive Records
The debut album from The Vanishing Lines, "No Replacement Found" comes to us, described as a brooding droning album, hailing from Shropshire England. It's songs aiming to be feelings, more than just melodic jams. I found it to be both…
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MINT 400 RECORDS LAUNCHES NEW JAZZ & INSTRUMENTAL SUB LABEL: RAINING MUSIC WITH THE FUNKY JC’S
New Jersey Indie Rock label Mint 400 Records has never shy-ed away from trying out new things. Such as when they launched Mint 400 Books in 2016 and brought some amazing short form audio books to Spotify and other services…
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“WITNESS” TIM KILE, EX-ARCADE FIRE’S NEW SINGLE OUT NOW
"Witness," is the brand-new single from Austin-based musician Tim Kile, a co-founding member of Arcade Fire and New Hampshire's Wild Light. The new single is from his forthcoming album due out this Spring. Here’s what Tim had to say about…
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BREAKUP PTSD WITH JON KHAN OF BLUE VERVAIN AS HE TALKS ABOUT NEW ALBUM NORTH CAROLINA
Usually every week we highlight Mint 400 Records releases by making a playlist and going through what we think inspired our songwriters. However the charismatic Jon Khan, frontman of Blue Vervain is very entertaining on his Instagram channel and we…
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RYAN SAMBOL EXPLORES STYLES AND AESTHETICS OF THE LAST 100 YEARS OF MUSIC ON GESTALT
On Ryan Sambol’s new album “Gestalt” it feels in it’s opening notes like Bob Dylan and Lou Reed inspired music sang by Mark Everett of Eels. A nice acoustic-ish ballad in the vein of Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side”…
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