Protected: Joe Rian’s “Think Yer In Luv” Finds Something Revolutionary in Ordinary Life
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Reetoxa’s “You Deserve Better Than Me” Is the Breakup Song That Knows When to Walk Away
There are roughly six billion songs ever written about getting someone back. The entire pop landscape is built around elaborately creative ways of singing “Actually, could we just sort of rewind everything?” so it’s a bizarre novelty to hear a song take the path less taken and acknowledge something infinitely harder to admit: you’re pretty
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A Grime-Streaked Declaration of Groove From the Heart of Dublin
“Dublin winters brew a specific kind of violence and Charnel Crown has bottled that restless energy to deliver a track that hits with the weight of a lead pipe to the shins.” Dublin winters brew a specific kind of violence and Charnel Crown has bottled that restless energy for their latest single In For A
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The Most Extraordinary Thing About Bottle Is That It Sounds Nothing at All Like a Museum Piece
It’s a beautifully romantic notion that a songwriter might spend thirty years sitting on one of his finest ideas. Not in the cinematic, ‘lost masterpiece’ sense, but in the more plausible sense that some people hang on to a good bottle of wine on the shelf until a day arrives that seems ‘worthy’ of opening
The Boldest Act in Music Today Isn’t Writing Four Songs According to “Next Time (I Won’t Be Falling)” EP
Streaming has birthed an odd kind of musical inflation. Albums are deluxe editions. Deluxe editions become “complete” editions. Singles include five mixes that are only discernibly different if you possess the hearing of a bat or the patience of a saint. Somewhere along the line, we became conditioned to believe that quantity was an acceptable
A Carbonated Rebellion Against Corporate Gaslighting
Last Second Dropout have managed to bottle the fizzing anxiety of the modern age and serve it up with a side of jagged riffs on their explosive track Aspartame. The song hits with the immediate rush of a sugar high and keeps that momentum going until the very last second. It feels like a wake-up
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Philmac’s “Live My Life” Is Hardly Going to Reinvent the Wheel of Motivational Music, but It Does Manage to Deliver a Much Deeper Experience
There’s a whole subgenre of inspirational music that runs on the concept of if you think hard enough, the universe will reward you with achievement, bliss and the inevitable epic sunset during the montage sequence. Actual persistence is rarely as cinematically inclined. However, it’s usually waiting; waiting for an email to drop in your inbox,