
Life has been pretty great the past few days. Senior festivities are in full swing leading up to graduation. My trip to South Carolina was a lot of fun, and it was nice to spend time with all my friends somewhere other than New Haven. The drive down was interesting, as I left with three other friends at 11 pm and drove through the night. I barely slept and then had the morning shift from 6 to 9 am, driving through Virginia and North Carolina. By the end we were all completely loopy. We listened multiple times to a couple [...]

Sometimes I get email, read it, tell myself I'll come back to it properly when I have more time, and then forget to do so. This leads to unfortunate inbox clogging and the occasional miss of something really fantastic. I received an email from Yorkshire artist, Tom Balmforth, way back at the beginning of February, and I only just came back to it now and listened to his debut digital EP Discography . It's an incredible, small packet of musical inspiration that had me wanting much more. Based largely around fanciful piano lines, electronic squiggles and a sense for [...]

We step into a new period with Thomas Balmforth . What you'll step with us and him is an electronic acoustic voyage, that's definite classification I'd like to avoid. It's kind of calm and handsome, gentle kicking, nothing to fill a floor, but something to fill your heart with warmth, your lungs with a mild breath and your mood with phlegmatic aplomb. Balmforth' tracks are more the tunes you'd play to prove your good taste in music to a schmoozed person. We picked 2 gems by Thomas to introduce him to listeners, who take the hurdle [...]