GirlSonic

My auditory neurons are still working the kinks out after listening to a new album by an artist that we should keep a wary eye and ear on. Prod is either a vastly superior alien being or a secret collaborative project involving Goldie, Prince and Aphex Twin. I just purchased Prod's debut album, "The Artworks Formerly Known as Prints" on Pollinate Records. Seriously, that is an extraordinarily stupid title for an album that is a thousand percent brilliant. At least half of the...

Jeffrey Konrad lives and writes music in Illinois, along with several of his personalities. His Alts have spunky names like Nigel Jeffrey, eggspout and Robot USA. And they all produce indie-pop-electronica that sounds familiar and unsettling, in the same way that Grimm's fairy tales are familiar and unsettling to children everywhere. Let's run through a case study: "Osh Kosh" plays like Beck riding the ferris wheel at Coney Island, after a handful of...