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Meimuna and Born Runner Reviewed
June 28, 2024
Meimuna – tomber de haut
If you’re walking down a very crowded street, stop suddenly and start staring intensely at an object in the distance; everyone who will notice you will stare in the same direction. Many will stop. Some will ask others what you are looking…
Soft Self Portraits and Shiffley Reviewed
June 28, 2024
Soft Self Portraits – Departures
John Lennon write a few hundred songs before he came to the realization that every single one was about him in some way. In fact, the more he tried to fight, the more ego-driven the songs became. So, he stopped fighting…
Colton Cerny and Old Pup Reviewed
June 27, 2024
Colton Cerny – The Fist Fighter
The world’s a safer place for many but also a much less truthful place. People won’t admit their feelings for each other, especially when revealing their thoughts, which would mean having to tell someone else just how much they…
Flashlight Faces and Thunder Boys Reviewed
June 27, 2024
Flashlight Faces – Things That Walked
You used to be able to look at many rock musicians and imagine all of the crazy things that they must have done before settling on this career. And nice, cute-crazy, either. The majority of them looked, walked, and talked like…
Rising Enemy and Gooseberry Reviewed
June 27, 2024
Rising Enemy – Atheneum
There’s power in artificiality. For one thing, it takes away some of the expectations of poor, regular humans using their regular strength to do great things and to be original and perfect each time that they attempt something.
This is…
VIDA and Karamelo Santo Reviewed
June 27, 2024
VIDA – In Absence
Music fans and critics use genre names so often that it’s easy to forget what some of those bands actually do. Is it enough to belong to a genre, or do you need to be good too? Is it enough to belong to a genre, or do you have to really show up…
E. James Smith and Chloe Louise Brisson Reviewed
June 25, 2024
E. James Smith – Afterlife Without You
If you spend enough time on this planet, you develop a sense of humor. It doesn’t matter if you weren’t exactly born with and received a thorny, unpleasant personality instead. You’ll develop it to impress girls and, most…
Död Mans Band and Interlay Reviewed
June 25, 2024
Död Mans Band – Nere på knä
I’d like to live a dream in a record machine. So should you. And so are millions of people from all over the world. In fact, it’s these commonly shared fantasies that allow the music business to operate as it has for previous…
Space Charged and James And The Cold Gun Reviewed
June 25, 2024
Space Charged – In the Grey Sky
English has held a chokehold on pop music since teen heartthrob Elvis Presley’s Country Yelped was successfully translated into global entertainment. Things are changing ever so slightly, yet the majority of bands continue to…