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Youth Valley and TIDETIED reviewed
March 16, 2026
Youth Valley – cerberus
The prevailing theory is that the angriest people, the kind that you’d send at the front of a medieval army, tend to be the nicest, most calm individuals that you’re likely to encounter drinking cold tea in the shade.
No, it’s…
Nora Baier and Knife Emoji Reviewed
March 9, 2026
Nora Baier – gilding the lily
The vast majority of pop songs ever written deal with love, or the disappointment associated with it. Don’t believe me? Just run through your record collection real quick or do some scrolling in your music app of choice.
You and Me and You and Sun Era Reviewed
February 26, 2026
You and Me and You – Dotted Lines
If you believe the gossip going around, or merely trust all of the movies that you’ve ever seen, the people who spend their time with a guitar strapped to their back or behind a drum kit are supposed to be the life of the party…
Count The Clock and Lana Leone Reviewed
February 25, 2026
Count The Clock – So Dumb
Dreams are a terrible thing. They just get our expectations up. When they’re really something worth remembering, those morning dreams, especially, always make you think that if you concentrate hard enough on positive emotions, you’ll be…
Essencer and Violet UltraRay Reviewed
February 16, 2026
Essencer – so long
There aren’t a lot of books that promise to teach you how to be a romantic. In fact, try to pitch those kinds of ideas to a typical publisher, and they’ll likely say that they could as well release books teaching people how to go…
caed And Ryan O'Connell Reviewed
January 9, 2026
caed – throw me in
Did Beethoven and Shostakovich really exist, or did history make them up so that kids at fancy music schools would have enough composers to worry about when working on their homework? And if they did exist, so what?
We’ve got our own…
Funny Feelings and scarlet dahlias Reviewed
December 14, 2025
Funny Feelings – Campaign
I’ll admit it! There’s something immensely satisfying about a corporation’s failure to create art on a conveyor belt and sell it for as much as they see fit. Perhaps I just like seeing people fail and waste money. Maybe I’m too much…
Rico Mindy and Darko's Aufhebung Reviewed
November 13, 2025
Rico Mindy – Gold Rush
Where do you go in your mind when you really need to escape reality, or is that just a skill that you’ve never been quite able to acquire? And, perhaps, even more importantly, where do your favourite songs help you go to in your…
Blue Tomorrows and oh, hooray Reviewed
November 4, 2025
Blue Tomorrows – Owl Creek Blues
Personally, I blame Joni Mitchell and all the Laurel Canyon songwriters. I’m sure that Bob Dylan, The Band, Eric Clapton and all the rock stars who professed to the benefits of moving to the country in order to record music there…