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All Arizona music, buncha different flavors.
Art by: @adamzucchini
Tag: phoenix music
Arizona Tracks of the Year (2018)
Here’s some of the best Arizona music we heard in 2018. We included a variety of genres and tastes. It only scratches the surface, but we hope you find something you like.
If you want to know more about any of these artists, message us on Instagram @swingbythedeli – enjoy!
Lana Del Rabies – Ghost
Tide Pools – complicated.
Slator Blacc – Good Afternoon (feat. Wilby the Great, Lord RA)
Mr. 2 Fucks Given – PLAY FAIR (feat. Lil Prada Loww)
CORMAC – Sun In Your Eyes (CORMAC’S Sunset Mix)
Coffee Pot – Corridor Metaphysics
Jock Club vs. Diversion Program – Shadowboxing
Hyperbella – Reign
MRCH – Dizzy
Breakup Shoes – Sometimes We Make Decisions
Sunn Trio – Fayrus
London Hack – Milk n Honey
Nanami Ozone – Alone Too
Moonlight Magic – Totem Pole
Soft Deadlines – Time To Shine
Herbert Walker – Eat Forever
House of Stairs – Cartier Bresson
Alassane – Gabriel Song (demo version)
Gabriella Isaac – sine map 18.04.13
Mute Swan – Enough Fun
Kill Stacy ft. Lil Prada – 7017 Cypher (feat. Lil Prada)
The Color 8 – Raw
GABI – Honda Civic
Palo Brea – Close
Like Diamonds – Janus & Diana
Harrison Fjord – Mr. Feeling
Pro Teens – Garbage Island
College Money – Alibi
Malaise – Dawning
Aspen Sound – Sense Doors
Michael Hooker & Sean Watson – Sueño
DOVI – Only Best
Gasol – Osprey
No Volcano – Sad Generator
Secret Attraction – Call Me Up
Strange Lot – Such A Feeling
Blossom – Go
Playboy Manbaby – Anxiety Attack
Gatecreeper – War Has Begun
Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra – Catchu
BURNOUT – Retcon
There Is Danger – Mirror Eyes
Michelle Sparks – Harajuku
Fairy Bones – Killing Me
Osutin – PYT (Osutin’s Acid Flashback Mix)
The Bittersweet Way – Almost Cheating
Bogan Via – Chillin
Norris Division – Voodoo Machine
Citrus Clouds – Golden Sun
Paul West – GFunk Pt 2
Herbert Walker Video Premiere & “On Flat Earth” Album Review
On their sophomore album, “On Flat Earth”, Phoenix band Herbert Walker encapsulates the claustrophobia of a torrid Arizona summer.
Peep their brand new music video for ‘Eat Forever’, premiering exclusively – right here at The Deli.
“Summer’s here,” perks lead singer Francis Bartolomeo on ‘Digging Up Worms’. The optimism in his voice is palpable. Visions of cold ones enjoyed in lawn chairs out back, and courting cuties at the community pool.
“…and this house is a balloon!” His intonation quickly backpedals, seeming to crumple his latest list of shining ideas, tossing it to the overflowing waste bin in the corner.
Anyone who’s from suffered from June to September in Arizona knows temperature and ambition share an inverse relationship.
So it’s refreshing that Francis, the band’s sole lyricist, is able to rival the desert’s dry heat with his parched perspectives.
Francis admits he dug deeper, emotionally, on this record compared to their first.
His anecdotes are teeming with very personal details – about change, complacency, and navigating the stormy torrents which flow between an innocent lust and a deep love.
Luckily, his musings are abstract enough to safeguard their true intrinsic code. Each line is hieroglyphic. But if we crudely trace the edges of his painstaking etchings, we decipher a story that’s oddly reflective. Uniquely our own.
The record invades our neural hard drive, digging through our most sensitive folders, and extracting melancholies we filed away long ago.
Where Francis’ words ground us, facing the humility of our realities, the brilliant instrumentation of this record sends our imagination soaring towards the cosmos.
The sounds of “On Flat Earth” are immaculate. Every member of the band flourishes on this album.
Greg Lloyd lays the trumpet down with silky precision. He also mastered the record. Francis says he’s the “most adult of the bunch”.
Vance Nowe’s hefty bass lines assert a serious tone on the tracks, while heading groove duties. He jumps in on keys in a couple songs, cementing his presence in the deepest layers of the tunes.
Sam Lekander, the second founding member of Herbert Walker, shoulders tempos with thoughtful precision. His percussion isn’t bombastic. It doesn’t need to be. He conducts the drums with care, weaving in and out of tracks with expert touch. Sam’s influence blossoms on ‘Balcony’, ‘Doggo’, and especially on ‘Long Arms’ – the album’s lengthiest track.
JJ Hernandez (guitar and keys) contorts vibrations, ensnaring you in sonic bliss. His sounds are sandy feet dangling off a creaky boardwalk. Time spent scouring the flowers for friendly critters. And snuggling with your pup in the grass. All packaged into a gorgeous, psychedelic parcel.
Herbert Walker’s “On Flat Earth” sprouted from incessant jam sessions, contagious camaraderie, and an apt towards trying new things.
This album is the score to our vivid daydreams, projected in technicolor behind our eyelids.
Enough droning. Give the record a listen. We highly suggest it.
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*all photos taken by The Deli, inspired by Herbert Walker’s album ‘On Flat Earth’
