Independent Music Reviews
Radagast the Brown is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium, but also the moniker of ambient composer and producer Ezekiel James Hampton from Napa, California. The godfather…
Elon Musk wants to terraform Mars. He says this is to ensure the future survival of humanity but is there a better example of a ‘God complex’? Being responsible for…
Le Days is the moniker of Swedish experimental musician Daniel Hedin, and his visceral new album “Stuck In My Head (Alternate Recordings)” takes the listener to the depths of his…
War in Ukraine, inflation, rising temperatures, and a widening political divide between left and right. One has many reasons to feel an apocalyptic dread when considering our outlook. On “The…
Vitalism is a belief that living things and non-living things are fundamentally different. Living things have souls, or what vitalists call “élan vital”. It sounds harmless, but according to Dr…
Errunhrd is a dream-pop project by Canadian multi-instrumentalist producer Shirin Ghoujalou. Her most recent album, “You Can Be You, I Can Be Me”, is an atmosphere-heavy collection of eleven fully…
Photo by Athena Quade – Spiral art rock A single in two parts, “Spiral” by Bristol four-piece art-rock outfit Quade is a mysterious musical endeavour, combining post-rock, neoclassical, and spoken…
In an interview with LensCulture, The Guardian photography columnist Sean O’Hagan opined, “I wonder if a photograph can express, say, regret, sorrow, or loss in as powerful a way as…
Pulse Park are a three-piece indie rock band from Germany, and their debut album “Phonac Music” showcases their melodic and artistic sensibilities through ten bittersweet and emotive songs. While Pulse…
In 2015, professor Mark Hamilton from the University of Connecticut published a paper titled “Astrology as a culturally transmitted heuristic scheme for understanding seasonality effects: a response to Genovese (2014)”.…