EUGENIA POST MERIDIEM – like i need a tension (Album Review)
The name Eugenia comes from the Greek word for ‘nobility’. It is the given name of Eugenia Fera, who fronts the Italian art-rock band Eugenia Post Meridiem. With post meaning…
hangtime – BLOODSKY (Album Review)
You can’t separate the art from the artist when you don’t know who the artist is. hangtime is, presumably, a duo. Any information available online about the group is contradictory.…
Oro Swimming Hour – Pterodactyl (Album Review)
Bristol-based musicians Oliver Wilde and Nicholas Stevenson make up the charmingly named indie-folk project Oro Swimming Hour. Following Penrose Winoa (2017) and Lossy (2019), their third album, Pterodactyl, is a…
Marína Ósk – One Evening in July (Album Review)
The region known as the ‘Nordic countries’ is known worldwide for its progressive politics, cold weather, and tradition of music performance of the highest standard. Icelandic jazz singer Marína Ósk…
Ziggy Alberts – Dancing In The Dark (Album Review)
Australian renaissance man Ziggy Alberts has been asserting his presence as a purveyor of earnest music and the written word since 2011. His sixth album, “Dancing In The Dark”, comes…
Brendan Cope – if now we are in pieces (Album Review)
Is our willingness to trust an artist to be sincere based solely on intuition? In his paper “Trust and Sincerity in Art”, C. Thi Nguyen of the University of Utah…
Single Reviews – 14 November 2022 – moshimoshi, Nightly Gatherings, Grand Eugène, Harry Klein
Photo by Taylor Deas-Melesh moshimoshi – Soon emo rock Finnish emo rockers moshimoshi return in stellar fashion with “Soon”, a nostalgic cut of guitar-driven, passionately sung, and frenetic energy that…
Wailing Urei – Is It Me? (Album Review)
Technology, much like nature, is fallible. Though modern technology and cloud computing promise accurate data representation and secure archiving, the truth of existence is that nothing is sacred, and even…
privacydied & jodimattiaccy – atrophy (Album Review)
Analogue recording equipment has long been lauded for producing a warm and natural sound. However, on “atrophy”, Londonite vocalist/rapper privacydied and Charlottean producer jodimattiaccy utilise analogue’s ability to handle distortion…
Key Out – afterville (Album Review)
There’s an alluring innocence to “afterville”, the third album from Sydney-based indie pop group Key Out. Full of carefully arranged harmonies, intimate moments via sweetly played acoustic-leaning instrumentation, it delivers…