You just got to love it when EPs are named exactly like how it sounds. THROES NYC’s The Wires Out is pretty much that—everything is exposed, buzzing, sparking, and maybe one bad decision away from catching fire. THROES NYC is the brainchild of Queens, NY natives Michael Bozzo and Courtney Leo, who have been making […]
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Floyds Row’s The Carlisle Sessions is a five-track EP that digs through old folk material and gives it a fresh coat of paint without pretending the past needs to be perfectly recreated. The group, formed out of collaborations at the University of Oxford, approaches traditional music less like a museum exhibit and more like a
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R.A.P.by Realest$Gold offers a glimpse of an artist finding her voice across four tracks Art is never one to dictate the rules and it doesn’t tell us that to grow we need to start changing our sound entirely, run to a different studio or declare we have reached a ‘new era’. For Realest$Gold’s four-track EP,
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You’d have to have an extreme level of self-confidence to name your EP Void Where Inhibited. It sounds less like a rap title and more like the sentence at the bottom of a contract that you were absolutely supposed to read before signing. Which in fairness, makes it a pretty good name for a project
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Rock music has a unique relationship with nostalgia. It feels like every few years, there’s an announcement that “real rock is back”. More often than not though, the revival only amounts to reheated riffs, vintage guitars, and a constellation of influential names worn on the sleeve so proudly that they all start to blend together
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
Let’s be honest, there’s a specific type of musician out there who genuinely sounds like they believe rock and roll has all the answers to the world’s problems. But I don’t mean the huge political, or economic kind of problems. We’re talking about more personal ones. The sort of problems that involve regret, wasted time,
There’s a very specific kind of project that doesn’t just want you to listen to it; it wants you to understand it first. Like, really understand it. Read the documents, absorb the mission statement, maybe reflect on the global state of humanity for a minute, and then press play. War Torn, the debut EP from
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There is something deeply comforting about a band that knows exactly what emotional weather they want to trap you inside. Not tell you about. Not politely gesture toward. Trap you inside. Tár’s Dancing on the Event Horizon is four tracks of beautifully managed atmospheric collapse, a record that seems less interested in introducing itself than
There’s a certain type of debut EP that arrives sounding like it was engineered in a laboratory somewhere by people who use the phrase “market positioning” without irony. Then there’s Only Love by Mark Moule, which sounds like the exact opposite of that: four songs built slowly, patiently, and with the kind of emotional honesty
