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Our Escape and Múnro Reviewed
February 3, 2025
Our Escape – Thoughts and Prey
War is the most abhorrent thing that humans have ever invented. And, boy, didn’t we work hard to perfect our atrocities? We’re so used to it that you’ll find people saying that it’s inevitable. And, once every few years…
Honeysucker and Mystery Friends Reviewed
January 31, 2025
Honeysucker – New Dust
Most people are looking for something to destroy them. But it’s a big decision, of course, and it’d better be worthwhile. There are many things that can turn your life upside down, have you counting stars in the daytime and make you walk…
MIEN and E.W. Harris Reviewed
January 29, 2025
MIEN – Evil People
If you don’t laugh, you’ll just cry. And if you can’t laugh, you must at least try to be entertained by the world around you. It won’t work at first, sure, unless you’re some kind of maniac who gets off on pain, suffering, and terrible…
The Heart Of The Sun and Why Tony Reviewed
January 29, 2025
The Heart Of The Sun – Sorrow Took My Soul
There must’ve been a moment when you came back home and locked yourself in your room while listening to melancholy-filled music that your parents sat you down for a talk. They’d probably heard about this happening…
PODVIG! and Osnova Reviewed
January 26, 2025
PODVIG! – Cloud Maze
Look, every musician earnestly hopes and imagines that the next time they will touch a musical instrument something wonderful and unique will occur. Every one of these musicians also knows that these kinds of things need to be documented, but…
Sunny Daze & the Weathermen and Robert Ascroft Reviewed
January 23, 2025
Sunny Daze & the Weathermen – Wax Lips
I wasn’t there when someone played the first rock show in a barn or the very first time kids stole money from their parents to buy a rock record. But I presume that rock fanatics weren’t the kind of people who got up…
Psych-O-Positive and Strawberry Lace Reviewed
January 22, 2025
Psych-O-Positive x Tomoyuki Tanaka x Shinichi Sekizawa x Ishiro Honda – Mothra!
The greatest thing that you can do to entertain an audience is to surprise them. That’s also the hardest thing to do. And, knowing this, all of the record labels and music studios…
Vesper Rose and th3 L3p3rs Reviewed
January 16, 2025
Vesper Rose – Autumn Leaves
Being a rockstar or robbing people at gunpoint – these are two of the last remaining ways in which a regular person can become the hero or villain of their story. Everything else is just earning money and paying bills in a cycle…
Look, you won’t be able to get rid of a bad first impression. Yeah, it’s true that the first meeting gets written down in the mind of the person you encounter forever. But frequent meetings are just as important. They’re the ones that set a standard. They’re the ones…