EP Review

Sometimes, you don’t need an over-the-top production, complicated arrangement, and hard-to-swallow lyricism. Sometimes, simple yet raw lyrics are the way to go. Let me introduce Destiny Imani and her latest EP, ‘Wishful Thinking.’ The EP started with ‘Love Again.’ The keyboard lick alongside the keyboard string effect created this gloomy yet airy feel to the […]

Mr. Jamie’s cataloge 1 is the kind of debut EP that feels like someone broke into alternative rock’s house, rummaged through all its drawers, stole whatever sounded cool, and then somehow made it all work. In case you wonder though, “catalogue 1” is only a placeholder title because Mr. Jaime’s still in the kitchen trying

Some songs feel like a throwback, while some strive to sound entirely new. But there are a few cuts that embody both, like neptune blood’s debut EP, “A Quiet Riot Inside.” And it’s the kind of record that feels like a memory and a real-time scene at the same time. neptune blood is a band

Isn’t it great when artists add their own flair to classic, timeless sounds? Like they’re not trying so hard to be different, but they also don’t settle for some kind of carbon-copy of the past. DownTown Mystic knows how to do it right with the EP “Mystic Highway”. DownTown Mystic is the alter ego of

Red Skies Dawning isn’t afraid to drag their music into the dirt. While others are too comfortable in polish and TikTok-worthy sounds, the band muddies the edges until the gloss and trend is finally gone. With their latest EP “From Ashes”, they open a portal to a world built from survival and wreckage. From Ashes

In the vast majority of music being released on a day-to-day basis, sometimes we tend to be drowned by how songs sound the same. There are times that you have to really dig deep, get out of Spotify just to find that alternative just to clear your musical palette, but worry no more, Otinshh’s latest

There’s a very specific kind of catharsis that only noisy, emotionally reckless post-hardcore can give you. It’s not pretty, and it’s not designed to be. It’s the kind of music that feels like someone finally snapping halfway through a breakup text and deciding to scream the rest of it into a microphone. Manhattan’s egret understand

The Sad Season isn’t lying when they named their EP “It’s All Too Loud in Here”. And it’s a whole experience that goes beyond mess and volume. It’s rock in its purest, deepest form, the one that’s heartfelt and brutal in one go. London-based band, The Sad Season was originally a duo consisting of Mikee

There’s an unspoken rule in the music industry that everyone just sort of accepts: never release live versions of songs that don’t already exist in studio form. You’re supposed to be sensible. Methodical. You record, you mix, you master; you remove all the dangerous edges before letting anyone actually hear you. CAN’T STOP TALKING clearly

There’s a particular kind of electronic music that sounds less like it was written and more like it was exorcised. Collisions by Future Magic & Robert Voxx is that kind of record; the kind that doesn’t arrive to make a scene, but to make sense of one. It’s five tracks of emotional detonation disguised as