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Tommy and the Teleboys and Jul Ruler Reviewed
August 19, 2024
Tommy and the Teleboys – Sarevokk
Spend a colossal time doing any particular thing, and it is very likely that you’ll get very good, go crazy or a combination of both. That sounds dangerous. And, perhaps, we’re fortunate that modern life offers us so many…
Joy and the Wildfire and Velvet Dos Reviewed
August 19, 2024
Joy and the Wildfire – Tears in Brooklyn
Forget about AI and start embracing your artists before it’s too late! Embrace your artists because they are the best of what any society has! Any society that goes without artists, without creativity, without people gifted…
Payphones and White Mount Lightning Reviewed
August 19, 2024
Payphones – I LOSE MY HEAD
I sometimes like to imagine what the music world would’ve been like if instead of the professional backup bands that recorded Michael Jackson or Donna Summer records, they would’ve got The Cramps or Sex Pistols instead. I imagine that…
Ukleti Dukat and Rosetta West Reviewed
August 19, 2024
Ukleti Dukat – Dva dukata za poslije
We have the tendency to talk about rock music as something that has grown terrifically old. After all, it came to life back in the 1950s, and it’s been assembled and broken down into any format that is…
Constant Follower and MacGregor Burns Reviewed
August 19, 2024
Constant Follower – Whole Be
The history of rock music, and, by consequence, all of the styles that have sprouted from it, is, really, the history of instrument amplification. It’s the story of people fighting to make instruments sound louder, to make singers be…
Shell Company and Mope. Reviewed
August 19, 2024
Shell Company – I Am Not I Am
Arthur Rimbaud, the teenage rockstar poet who faked his own death before actually succumbing to an infection while selling guns in Africa, famously said “Je est un autre.” Our inner self is always on the move, and we never get close…
People who bet on themselves are an increasingly rare bunch, and the grim prognosis is that they’ll become far fewer in the years to come. There’s abundant evidence to suggest this. And thus, before you go home sobbing that all is lost, you might as well lend some…
Electric Mainline x Artifex Lux and Fight Cloud Reviewed
August 15, 2024
Electric Mainline x Artifex Lux – Rope
It’s hard for people who start out by trusting their lives to people who they only know through the records that they’ve collected to later substitute that trust for politicians, generals, and other symbols of…
Goia Paranoia and Påls butikk Reviewed
August 15, 2024
Goia Paranoia – Black Out
It’s the people who can keep calm in most situations, keep their wits about, and observe what all of the others are doing that tend to win at the game of life. Those people are usually Nordic Europeans. It’s their education that makes…