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Eggshells and Phil Conine Reviewed
March 12, 2025
Eggshells – A Spiral
If you want to make sure that you destroy a young artist, make sure to fill their mind up with other people’s expectations of what they should do. That’s the closest you can get to guaranteeing a lifetime of neurosis.
These…
Pop music sounds great nowadays. In particular, everything sounds pristine. More specifically, every sound is tuned to perfection. And, in actual fact, it’s all a terrible and complete bore. Pop music is an industrial-sized attempt to get your ears and everything in…
Beware! Beware! and Dan Krochmal Reviewed
February 8, 2025
Beware! Beware! – Disco
People from the high life don’t write great novels, songs or paint wonderful paintings. Why would they put themselves to the grind of creating them? They must already have enough things to entertain them, including anecdotes from other…
Luah and The Classicals Reviewed
December 26, 2024
Luah – Small Time
If you’re one of those big-time music fans, you probably often find yourself stuck in some minuscule club on the weekends with a dozen or so other people waiting for bands to share their music. It’s on really hot summer nights or blisteringly…
Sssstephen! and Jon Tyler Wiley & His Virginia Choir Reviewed
December 13, 2024
Sssstephen! – Many Faces
“Lo-fi” used to be a particular kind of inability to properly finance your recordings. It is now, however, a style of music and a conscious choice. When it works best, it is a look at the past for what we thought the future might sound…
Terra Twin and DahL Reviewed
November 19, 2024
Terra Twin – Again and Again
Memories ain’t nothing. They shouldn’t scare you. They have little power over you. At least, not as much as they could have. The brain’s cleverly wired in such a way that many of the worst nights and most tense mornings that…
Sarah Swire and Sally Duhon Reviewed
November 7, 2024
Sarah Swire – Tight
Generally, audiences have understood how much they’re willing to see their favourite entertainers misbehave. They’ve communicated these decisions through ticket sales and nasty comments left on their social media profiles. How should the…
timothy e. cooney jr and Matthew Squires Reviewed
November 3, 2024
timothy e. cooney jr – skyscrape
It’s a bit of a heartbreaker, I know, but many of the memories you’ve gathered throughout this day, you won’t be able to hold for long. It doesn’t even matter how good or bad of a day it was.
But don’t worry, you…
Dork and Kaala Reviewed
October 9, 2024
Dork – Legs
The second worst thing that you can tell somebody from Northern Europe, if you’ve known them for a few decades, is that you love them. That will really freak them out.
The very worst thing that you can do is sit next to them on the bus or the…