Teenage pop’s idea of adolescence is one long contradiction. In five minutes flat you can be sure of yourself and totally insecure. Five minutes can have you burning with obsession over the next person, then so sure of yourself that nobody else matters. An hour ago you were going to love yourself for evermore, now
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“You’re Not Listening” begins with a familiar kind of anxiety: you’re talking, someone is right there, and somehow none of it seems to be getting through. But Mister Chorister’s latest track gradually flips that frustration around. What if the person who isn’t listening is actually you? The alternative-rock track is the third chapter in the
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There are few experiences more exhausting than being told you need to have everything figured out. Modern life has somehow turned indecision into a personal failure, as if everyone else received a very important instruction manual that somehow got lost in the mail. fernvie’s “Dito Muna Tayo sa Pagitan” has a different suggestion: maybe we
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Dorian makes nostalgic music. One second you’re listening to a song and the next, you’re reclined in the backseat of your car staring out the window, questioning why you had called someone back and then questioning why they didn’t call you back. This is what Dorian knows. His sound is rooted in soul and R&B
How does a good grief song go? Acoustic guitar? Check. Weepy lyrics? Yep. Sunlight, wind, trees, nature? Well, you knew it was going that way. “Without You Here,” the most recent single from Jersey Shore alternative rock band Starboard to Sunset has these things. It also has a lot of latitude to just sit with
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Walking through Queens under a gray afternoon sky brings an immediate feeling of history and K. SPARKS channels that raw street warmth on Make It Make Sense. The track opens with a haunting female vocal sample floating above crisp drum snaps that carry the weight of late nineties hip hop culture. He steps up to
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There’s a line between “it sounds old” and “we understand why it worked so well before.” Lyons Lane seems to get it. The Michigan five-piece conjures up rockabilly, doo-wop and 1950s Americana on their debut EP You’ll Talk About It! but it doesn’t sound like a band with a museum exhibit dedicated to the Fifties.
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Two songs. An entire orchestra. A spiritual awakening. A mental breakdown. All that packed with enough baggage to fill a 26-track double album. Double A Side 2 (Akaroa / Erica And The Stars) by Reetoxa is an EP but is delivered with all the bombast of a full-blown rock opera and with the emotional nuance
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Hamburg’s melodic dark-rockers Moonarch turn greed, technology and societal collapse into a stadium-sized warning shot. “King Of Nothing” arrives with stomping guitars, soaring vocals and enough dramatic atmosphere to make the apocalypse feel like it deserves its own arena tour. The track imagines a dystopian world wrecked by the greed of its rulers and humanity’s
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There’s something inherently funny about a band called I Plead Irony spending ten years making an album about contradiction. You could accuse them of taking the joke too far, but then This Monologue Conversation arrives and makes a rather persuasive case for letting them have the last laugh. The third album from Farnborough trio I