Album Review

There’s a specific moment in every underground music fan’s life where you discover a new micro-scene online and immediately fall down a rabbit hole. One minute you’re listening to whatever your usual rotation is, the next minute you’re six producers deep into some hyper-specific SoundCloud tag like “plug rage ambient trapcore” wondering how you got […]

Some debut albums arrive like a statement. Others arrive like a question that hasn’t quite decided what it’s asking yet. Sid, the debut English-language album from Dian Sheng, sits comfortably in the second category, carrying ideas about identity, culture, and self-understanding without rushing to pin any of them down. Sheng builds Sid like a conversation

There are two kinds of protest albums. The first kind are loud about it. You know the type: guitars turned up, slogans shouted directly at the nearest microphone, maybe a chorus that feels designed specifically for chanting at a demonstration. They’re not subtle, but that’s sort of the point.The second kind are quieter. Reflective. The

Rock music has always come with a very specific aesthetic package. You know the one: leather jackets, hair that suggests a long-running disagreement with scissors, guitars that sound like someone plugged a chainsaw into a thunderstorm. The cultural message is clear. This is Serious Guy Music. Feelings are allowed, but only if they’re screamed through

There is a particular flavor of indie-folk that has dominated the last decade or so, and you know it when you hear it. It smells faintly of mason jars and reclaimed wood. It is emotionally vulnerable in a way that is very curated. Everyone is sad, but in a way that would still look good

There’s a certain confidence that comes with making an album called Nothing Lasts Forever and having it land not as a dirge, but as something surprisingly warm, generous, and alive. Brock Davis’ latest record is deeply aware of impermanence, but it isn’t obsessed with doom or mortality-as-spectacle. Instead, it feels like the sound of someone

There’s a certain confidence that comes with looseness. Not the careless kind, but the kind that comes from knowing your instincts are sharp enough to trust. Douby, the debut album from DJ SoulChild AC, lives squarely in that space. It’s an album that doesn’t beg to be decoded track-by-track in a rigid order. Instead, it

There’s something deeply dramatic about two former post-punk musicians from Glasgow reconnecting after decades apart and deciding, instead of quietly reminiscing about “the old days,” to make an album about surviving modern existence. It’s either the beginning of a midlife crisis or the start of something genuinely moving and on Survival, the debut album from

You only get a handful of chances to cross paths with artists that have the ‘IT’ factor, and I think Charles Luck’s latest album, ‘Ai12die’, is actually it. Let me discuss the album at length and read why this is an album you don’t want to miss. ‘Beep Bop Boop’ is an upbeat song that

There’s something uniquely modern about getting your music pulled from streaming because of a producer dispute and responding not with a vague Instagram Story but with, essentially, “Fine. I’ll do it myself.” That’s the energy powering the self-titled EP from TRXPSCO, a project born out of frustration, stubbornness and a crash course in DIY beat-making.