EP Review

There is a different kind of spark into pieces that are made by artists who strive to create meaningful art while valuing their authenticity and freedom of expression. One of those artists is .Roy, who expressed his artistry with his latest EP Into Divinity. The intro is very unexpected, something I’ve never heard before. It […]

One of the hardest things to do after a breakup is pulling oneself out of the darkness, to continue with life all while carrying the emotional baggage it leaves behind. Tati flawlessly captures the aftermath of this scenario with his latest EP, TATI PART 2. Known for blending pop, hip-hop, and alternative sounds, the EP

Pillowprince is an Oakland-based indie band with a name that sounds like it belongs to either a shoegaze project or a particularly edgy Etsy store, and a debut EP that does not waste time. pretty, baby! is a genre cocktail of indie rock, shoegaze, slowcore, and queercore, which is to say: it’s both emotionally devastating

Eyes Like Torches at the Gate by Ratyński is a two-track classical guitar EP that gently crawls out of the abyss of modern noise and politely asks if you’d like to cry about the nature of change for approximately seven minutes. And somehow, by the end of it, you will have done exactly that, without

Let’s be clear from the start: Gemeinsam Stark by Stahlschmiede is not here to make friends. It is here to smash your expectations into a fine powder, weaponize them, and throw them directly back at your face with the force of a blast beat summoned from the gut of a dying star. Formed in the

Imagine Billy Idol is cryogenically frozen in a chrome sarcophagus beneath Camden Market sometime around 1987. Then, decades later, he’s thawed out in 2014 by accident during the recording of No Fixed Address, a.k.a. the Nickelback album where they briefly flirted with electronic music and accidentally made a synth-rock soundtrack for the apocalypse and ended

Have you ever put on an album and suddenly felt like you were the main character in a slow-burning indie film about loneliness? That’s Breakfast, the latest EP from Hong Kong-based Besides. It doesn’t just play in the background; it seeps into the room, filling every quiet space with the kind of melancholy that makes

Ted Eckhardt has been at this music thing for a while, but with Mind at Ease, his solo project Peacock Coyote finally arrives like a well-worn leather jacket; timeless, effortlessly cool, and vaguely smelling of nostalgia. If you like The War on Drugs, heartland rock, or just the idea of staring meaningfully out of a

So, have you ever listened to a project that makes you want to run through a brick wall, but in a really energetic and yet cool way? That’s exactly what I PLEAD INSANITY does. unpolished* on their debut EP give us a six-track riot grrrl-infused adrenaline shot straight to the face, except the syringe is

There’s something about Marcus: The Apex Predator!’s EP that’s nostalgic, maybe how their guitars sound, or how they play their tunes overall, but they still manage to capture the fun vibe of indie rock throughout all five tracks of “Newborn Fossil”. If you catch the drift, there’s nothing better than instantly getting greeted by the