SUBMITTING YOUR ALBUM FOR CONSIDERATION
You can either send a CD/Vinyl (with band bio/info and photos) to our postal address or send a digital submission using the contact form below. Please, DO NOT contact us asking if sending your material is OK. If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t be reading this.
IMPORTANT! Make sure the digital submission includes all info about the band, photos, and a link to the material in the body of your message. Dropbox, WeTransfer, Google Drive, and Bandcamp (with a download code) are all accepted. Sending uncompleted stuff, or not including links with the DOWNLOAD option will result in your request being ignored. We CANNOT devote time to listen to your promotional submission if we have to be tethered to a browser because you sent a streaming version of it.
We receive many promo packages each week, so please be patient if you don’t hear from us after a few weeks. We do listen to every submission that comes in although it can take some time for us to get to listen to them all. If we like the music we will contact you to learn more and to confirm coverage. Due to heavy workloads and severe time restraints, we are unable to provide coverage for every single album we get.
OUR ALBUMS REVIEWS GUIDELINES
At Sonic Perspectives our aim is to provide information and accurate reviews of artists and genres we enjoy. While we are often excited about the albums we choose to write about, we will approach those articles with an objective and critical ear to give our readers an honest representation of what we think of a particular work. Although a review may be edited/improved for clarity or grammar, the feelings and ratings of the author will not be changed due to favoritism of the main editors, the requests, or the access granted by any band, label, or management.
Our rating system is based on songwriting, musicianship, originality, and production, rated on a scale of 10. Songwriting is a reviewer’s feeling about the compositions and arrangements, while musicianship documents the overall quality of the performances and the playing. Originality can be applied to an artist both against their previous works and to their greater genre as a whole. Production scores the sonic experience of the album and can include things like a 5.1 mix or a specially mastered vinyl version of an album.
With the 1-10 scale it’s important to note that most items will fall into the 5-10 end of the spectrum not because of bias, but simply because if we come across an album of people who can’t play their instrument or write a competent song, something that would be worth of a 1-3 score, chances are we aren’t being bothered with it. It is also worth noting that although we strive to keep a balance between reviewers, there will naturally be some flux in the scale based on who is using it.
GET IN TOUCH
The Sonic Perspectives Headquarters:
3690 W 18th Avenue
Unit 126812
Hialeah, Florida 33012-1032
United States
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DISCLAIMER
The published articles provided by Sonic Perspectives strive to provide accurate information and high-quality journalism. This website and any material and content are provided on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis and use is at your own risk. Editorial articles and reviews reflect the opinions of their authors.
All the images included in this website remain the copyright of the original photographers and graphic artists. The vast majority of them are provided to us by either record labels or public relations companies working with the musicians to promote their work. In some cases, additional images from the artist’s social media profiles will be used to illustrate an article. We include the photographer or artist information/credit as a byline in 100% of the cases when the information is available, it’s simply the right thing to do. If you are a photographer who took a photo used for artist promotion and you find it here without your name, it’s because we were never given such details. Please get in touch so we can include your information.
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