Album Review

There’s something inherently funny about an album trying to be both sprawling and intimate. Like, imagine someone handing you a shoebox filled with postcards and saying, “This is the Odyssey.” That’s Circle the Dream. It wants to be a folk record, a prog record, and a diary all at once, and instead of collapsing under […]

Imagine locking yourself in a dimly lit room. Not for dramatic effect, but because it’s 3AM and turning on the light feels like too much responsibility. That’s the emotional ecosystem Nate G cultivates on me myself i, a self-produced dive into solitude, self-awareness, and the unbearable tightness of being alone with your own thoughts for

LARJIMAR’s Metro Subterráneo is the sort of album that sounds like it should have been just another half-baked SoundCloud experiment. It’s the kind of thing you click on, hear a half-finished beat and some vague crooning, and never return to again. Instead, it lands as a surprisingly coherent, strangely hypnotic project. It takes Afrobeat grooves,

Do you ever wonder what happens when a musician perfectly executes an idea into an art? Like it just leaves you in awe, wondering how it’s possible to turn a mere idea into something so vast, grand, and epic? Codemachia’s Gladius Æternus is the exact manifestation of that. Gladius Æternus is more than an album,

Some albums exist purely to be ignored. They fill playlists, soundtrack laundry cycles, and evaporate from memory the moment they end. 40, the new 11-track project from three-time World Entertainment Awards nominee Baby T, is not one of those albums. This is a record that refuses to be background noise. It’s not content with providing

Every other week, some indie artist pops up declaring they’ve reinvented music with their laptop and a £10 mic from Gumtree. And usually, it’s fine. Charming, rough around the edges, occasionally surprising, but not exactly the stuff of revolutions. Then along comes Shu Lee, who actually means it. His second album Fusion Of Colours isn’t

So, you’ve decided to escape the 9-to-5 grind, crush your limiting beliefs, and manifest generational wealth. Congratulations: you’re either about to start your fourth side hustle or you’ve just wandered into the motivational speaker side of YouTube. And right in the middle of that energy vortex sits Bank Statements, a hip-hop album by BobbyBullRun that

Explored through extensive wordplay and metaphors, paired with intricate sounds of classical rock and grunge and everything in between, there is no doubt that “reach the stars” covers every inevitable thing to be experienced in a person’s life, from the perspective of the artist, related to the audiences’. However, this album is curated with finesse

Debut albums are tricky things. They’re not just songs stapled together; they’re statements, first impressions, the kind of work that says: this is who I am, and here’s why you should care. Sometimes artists stumble because they try to do too much too soon. Others play it safe and end up blending into the wallpaper.

Ambition is a dangerous word in music. Usually, it’s a polite synonym for “bloated” or “overlong,” reserved for when a band decides that what the world really needs is their 80-minute prog rock double album where each track is a metaphor for different kinds of soup. But with When I Close My Eyes, Boy Grapes