NYC CD submission roundup: Su, Pat Hull, Antics

Brooklyn based Su has an extremely personal songwriting style, that relies mostly on commanding acoustic guitar parts, a delicate voice singing never banal melodies often reminiscent of The Throwing Muses, and quirky drum machine beats. The results are a little rough in the production department, but definitely intriguing. Check out her latest digital single "Everything Right" here, and our favorite song "Mountain" from her debut EP embedded here.

We’ll be Perry-style un-pc for a second here and and tell you that Americana bores us in most cases. But not when we find in it the intensity Pat Hull is capable of injecting in his songs featured in his debut full length "Light". The Brooklyn based songwriter’s alto and his intimate melodies are evocative of Luke Temple’s solo records before he started Here We Go Magic, and although the instrumentation, cadence and atmosphere of this material scream "country", Pat’s melodies and guitar parts go in the direction of gently reinventing the genre rather than obeying to its exhausted axioms.


Antics music comes across as rather conventional power pop-rock at first, until you relize there’s a lot more to it. The first track on their debut album "Everything" starts like a mix of Weezer’s drums+guitars assault with more emotional vocals a la’ Wilco, and then develops in structure defying directions neither artists would dare follow. "We Are Gods", streaming here, features a more linear structure, but doesn’t shy away from other forms of experimentation – sonic ones: see extra distorting drums suddenly exploding on the left of your speakers, and unexpected a cappella breaks. If you like your pop-rock to have a little extra edge, this may be the band for you. See the Antics live at Cake Shop on September 24.

All these artists submitted their music for review to The Deli digitally here.