So, regardless of our passion for music that in its expression borders on adolescent giddiness, the tone in the SEM offices, the demeanor, if you will, is pretty button-down. There’s work to do and all the research and communication with artists and/or their publicists and the occasional outreach to the labels themselves that comes with that (assuming there’s even a label involved given the wholly reorganized landscape that’s evolved since pretty much day one of the internet), past which there are adjectives to summon, comparative stylistic references to nail down, coffee pots getting dangerously low, editorial panic being quietly suppressed. Sure, one or the other of us will jump up every now and again with a ‘You gotta hear this!’ but even that’s rare as we’re sensitive to our fellow scribes’ already-frayed state of play, you never know what train of thought you might derail, never to be righted again. However, it’s not all solemn intensity, our brows furrowed in some sort of Gorkyesque scowl as we wrestle with still another knot of garbled syntax. Sometimes, like a light coming in through the windows at a new, unexpected angle, a new track/video from an artist we adore sidles in sideways … Continue reading STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE – Shimmy-Disc Artist Lumberob’s Joyous, Strange, Perfect “Maybelle” from Upcoming Album ‘Hunter Gather’