Album Review

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

Matt Chabe’s debut as Sleeping Fits feels like the kind of record you stumble across by accident; an unassuming Bandcamp upload that turns out to be a miniature world of fuzz, heat, and human messiness. It’s the product of a one-man operation based outside Guadalajara, Mexico, recorded with what Chabe calls “busted amps and cheap

There’s something so intriguing when you name an album “Go Tell the Bees”. Like, excuse me, are we really talking to bees now? No — but close. So you listened to the album and realized Bastion’s Wake is onto something great, the kind that cannot be replicated by some AI or any formulaic pursuit to

There’s something quietly rebellious about an album like Pertinax. Suris, composed of the duo of Lindsey and David Mackie, have decided to make something defiantly sincere. It’s the sound of two people who have been doing this long enough to know better, but went ahead and did it anyway. “Pertinax” literally means “resolute,” which is

There’s something charmingly audacious about an artist calling their project Epic Scales. It’s like naming your first novel Profound Literature; it’s a title that either crashes under its own weight or earns the hell out of it. Luckily for Samuel Yuri, his album does the latter. Across five tracks, this Brazilian composer, guitarist, and DIY

If okay(K) presents: Modest Tyler proves anything, it’s that okay(K) is less interested in fitting into a scene and more interested in seeing what happens when e dissolves one. His new project sounds like what would happen if Young Thug and/or Lil Yachty decided to front Silent Alarm-era Bloc Party; an unlikely fusion of yearning

There’s something inherently ambitious about The Mysterons, the kind of album that could only be made by someone who’s spent years living inside both their record collection and their imagination. Devon-based artist Ollie K’s latest project isn’t just a record; it’s an experience, a transmission from a parallel universe where Captain Scarlet, MF DOOM, and