October 2025

Cover albums are always weird little artifacts. They’re not quite nostalgia, not quite reinvention, but something awkwardly in between, like borrowing someone else’s clothes and hoping people compliment you on your taste. Weezer’s infamous Teal Album proved that if you lean hard enough into karaoke-level sincerity, you can make an entire generation simultaneously roll their […]

Listening to Gothic Aesthetic’s debut Tales of the Dark Forest is like being handed a script to a play you didn’t know you’d been cast in. Every track feels like stage directions written in eyeliner; every riff is a velvet curtain being yanked open by someone who definitely owns a candelabra. It is gothic metal