Album Review

There’s something deeply funny and deeply satisfying about watching a lifelong behind-the-scenes wizard finally step out from behind the curtain. AmorA spent years building entire universes for other people: scoring films, shaping sound for video art, and even helping win a Grammy for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. She has been, musically speaking, the person responsible […]

Re-releasing old songs is usually the domain of artists who’ve either run out of new ideas or desperately need to remind people they still exist; like a high school reunion announcement, but with more reverb. Thankfully, Ripsime is neither of those. Instead, she’s decided to dig up three early tracks in the form of “Dare,”

Debut albums tend to fall into one of two camps: the carefully curated calling card or the unfiltered “here’s everything we’ve ever wanted to shout into the void.” Forever Got A Lot Shorter, the debut LP from south-coast UK outfit Endless Talking, somehow manages to be both and not in the diplomatic, “oh, they’re balancing

Every once in a while, an electronic album arrives that isn’t desperately trying to become the soundtrack to someone’s gym montage or the background noise for a TikTok recipe or whatever passes for emotional catharsis in the algorithmic age. Jeppediinho’s Games of Life; a title that sounds like it should come with a glowing “Press

If you’ve been reading a lot of my reviews, I’m geared towards simplicity over technicality, but what if you have an album that balances both simplicity, technical mastery, and skillful execution? ALL I LIVE FOR had just released their sophomore LP, ‘Into The Ether.’ Join me as I discuss this record at length and read

There’s a certain swagger that only comes from a band that’s been through hell, scraped themselves back together, and then decided the flames might as well be repurposed as stage lighting. A Light in the Darkness, the second full-length from Lisbon’s The Bateleurs, is that swagger weaponized. Not self-destructive, not nostalgic, but sharpened into something

There’s something almost poetic about Aeons landing in a world that feels like it’s collapsing and rebooting every other week. Esprit D’Air; the eternally DIY, never-quiet, never-dead metal project has always sounded like it was forged in the middle of an existential crisis, but this time, the crisis feels mutual. Where Oceans (2022) and Seasons

Luke Pacuk’s 1983 isn’t just another artist raiding the thrift shop of eighties nostalgia. If anything, it’s a full-scale reconstruction project. This record doesn’t merely wear its influences on its sleeve; it embalms them, reanimates them, and sends them staggering into the modern world with unnerving confidence. The result sounds less like a retro pastiche

It makes a difference when an artist wants you to feel something instead of just shoving their sound at your ears for streams and plays. Elion Melody’s “Engraved Onto Infinity” does exactly that, inviting you to sit with his curation that feels like a love letter showcasing his suave confidence and vulnerability. Originating from the

Heartbreak albums are nothing new. Everyone from Adele to your coworker with a ukulele has made one. But The Crumble, the debut full-length from Georgia-born singer-songwriter Avaraj, isn’t just about heartbreak. Rather, it’s about the aftermath when the love songs stop working and all that’s left is the noise in your head. Written in the