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Foreign Air and Sam Himself Reviewed
October 28, 2024
Foreign Air – Save Us
The history of pop music is filled with beautiful, talented, attractive people signed to record labels and making music about sipping cocktails on the beach. That’s 99% of the music, and that’s 99% of the music that sucks. Sure, record…
Eolya and Julien Filion Reviewed
October 23, 2024
Eolya – Sál
All great artists are fated to, at one point or another, feel as if they’ve been hard done by fate and that they should have been born at a different time. Indeed, the perceived glory of the past is not something that belongs exclusively to artists.
Travel Plans x Kendra Morris – Fade Out
The worst thing one can do with a life is to be wasteful. Talented artists whose brains are bursting open with ideas can easily fall into this trap. A million ideas fight for their attention at any time. It’s not easy to…
JOCK and Fungas Reviewed
August 19, 2024
JOCK – Jock’s Labyrinth
Whenever you see documentaries about famous rock bands or read books or magazine articles about them, the authors will insist on just how revolutionary, brave and groundbreaking their ideas were. The general consensus, when such…
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…
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…
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…
woioi and EAVA Reviewed
August 15, 2024
woioi – Tanuki
People may have famously flooded the stands of baseball stadiums for a chance to burn disco albums, but disco won in the end. If anything, even though it’s changed its name and got the papers in order, disco is one of the biggest beneficiaries of…
Colectivo Zafra and Disconnectica Reviewed
July 18, 2024
Colectivo Zafra – Tiempo al Tiempo
“What good is music anyway? Why do you listen to it?” These may appear to be questions of an almost esoteric nature. But ask most people, and they’ll give you the same reply. They’ll tell you that they listen to music to…