Deep Dark Down And Blue by Connie Lansberg (Album Review)
It’s often difficult to write about jazz. Thoughtful and expressive by nature, jazz is both a cultural cornerstone and an academic field of study, and a writer who doesn’t know their terminology or history will soon be exposed. Unsurprisingly, most music writers prefer to stay away from this genre. Luckily,Continue Reading
The Bridge in The Mountain’s Hands (A Travelog) by Haotian (Album Review)
Travelling across our big and varied world often inspires great change in our perspective. The differences in geography, culture, and lifestyle can be drastic depending on where you are on the globe. Haotian Wang, originally from Yunnan, China, is an experimental composer and producer based in New York. His recentContinue Reading
Fractals by Michael Donoghue (Album Review)
For those who shudder at mathematics, the idea of fractals can be dauntingly hard to conceptualize. But luckily for the more left-side brained of us, Michael Donoghue of Jersey conceptualizes the notion of fractals through glacial and alluring experimental electronica. His recent work, the album “Fractals”, unfolds across eight tracksContinue Reading
BRIGHT YOUNG FUTURE – Life On The Bridge (Album Review)
Danish duo Bright Young Future label themselves as ‘collage pop’, a perfectly-fitting genre classification. Their sophomore album “Life on the Bridge” melds delicate textures with flashes of experimental instrumentation, botched samples, and a beguiling production sensibility. The duo comprises artists Rune Risager and Jacob Abildgaard, and their hi-brow music isContinue Reading
Bow & Clatter by Many Pretty Blooms (Album Review)
Another summer is almost over, and another autumn is just around the corner. This time of year offers precious moments of retrospection; as the days get shorter, our thoughts contradictorily have more room to grow. Though there is a bittersweet tinge to the dwindling warmth, failed romances, and missed opportunities,Continue Reading
Sleepwalker by Hourloupe (Album Review)
In the world of representational knowledge, words can deliver a weight of cultural associations. Even a word as simple as ‘shadow’ can instill in the receiver a world of dark and unknown mysticism. On the other hand, non-representational knowledge, such as music, relies only on the intuitive responses of theContinue Reading
Nutrients – Different Bridges (Album Review)
The trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic is still fresh in the collective consciousness. Two years ago, no matter how much one might like to forget, the world changed. Billions of people were cast into lockdown. Musically, it produced what is now known as the “lockdown album”; albums that suggestively encapsulateContinue Reading
Custom Slaughter by Slime Lush (Album Review)
Slime Lush are a post-punk jam-rock band from Oklahoma, USA, and their brand of rough-and-ready rock is both easily accessible and uniquely engaging. Across the eight tracks of varying length on their debut album, “Custom Slaughter”, one can find enjoyable melodies, sweet guitar hooks, and passages of more abstract andContinue Reading
Dash Hammerstein – Time Travel – Hot Pretzel (EP Review)
Dash Hammerstein is an alternative folk singer from Brooklyn who upholds musical traditions while imbuing his songs with a modern perspective built around spiritual disenchantment and the absurd. His latest EP, “Time Travel – Hot Pretzel”, is a waggish and exciting take on coffeehouse folk, chamber pop and folktronica thatContinue Reading
Ruins – Pure at Heart (Album Review)
Ruins are a Liverpudlian alternative pop-duo who create emotive soundscapes with rock-steady drum machines, gentle guitars, and falsetto vocals. Vocalist Lloyd Rock has a dulcet and high-pitched voice, and when coupled with the sometimes bizarre music of Nik Kavanagh, Ruins create a highly distinctive sound. There is a calming gushContinue Reading