The scent of cheap cologne and the weight of a heavy silence usually define the end of a bad romance but Angele Lapp decides to torch that entire cliché with her new single Toxic Boyfriend. Instead of retreating into the usual muted acoustic heartbreak she opts for a high-voltage reclamation of space that feels like […]
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“A sun-baked anthem that distills the erratic desperation of a desk job into three minutes of sheer unadulterated escapism.” There is a peculiar kind of alchemy that happens when a guitar riff sounds exactly like salt water stinging your eyes. On the sun-baked anthem Beach Fever Epic Nelson manages to distill the erratic desperation of
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“Anuther Sunny Hulliday” tries to subvert the summertime anthem-quite the opposite-but because it seems entirely unfazed by whatever algorithm-approved brand of “summer vibes” currently dominates streaming platforms. Instead, Mick J. Clark has delivered something that feels like it’s meandered in from a forgotten decade, tote bag in one hand, novelty sunglasses in the other, and
Seeing Violet doesn’t wait for permission to tear into the fabric of the modern world on their latest track Billionaire. It starts with an Orwellian spoken word segment that feels like a transmission from a dystopian future that happens to be our current reality and it sets a heavy stage for what follows. This is
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The air in the room thickens when 5PM MORNING hits the first chord of Waterfalls because this music demands a complete surrender to its heavy and swirling atmosphere. It feels like waking up in a house you haven’t lived in for twenty years but every floorboard still knows the specific weight of your step. This
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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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“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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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
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
