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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…
Sylvia and Kalligary Reviewed
July 5, 2024
Sylvia – Recompose
Musically, very little is actually new except for experimental hip-hop, AI gibberish, and folks making music in their garage using old vacuum cleaners and rusty pipes. But is that a problem, really? The things worth singing about aren’t new…
Daniel Cruz Tlalpam - Soundtrack Music to “Pocamadre”
August 7, 2023
While the folks controlling the entertainment industry are working out how to pay artists less and incorporate AI technology more, the rubbish they routinely help produce goes to prove one thing – truly creative people will be sought after like prophets in the…
As It Is: Ari Joshua and Andrew Savage Reviewed
August 5, 2023
Andrew Savage – Water the Cat
Genre: Folk
Andrew Savage is a performer that writes songs as if dutifully adding daily information into a diary that will one day be shared with the world.
Most performers put on an act. If you’ve watched documentaries or…
Face the strange: NECKBOLT and SLW cc Watt Reviewed
July 30, 2023
SLW cc Watt – Help Me
Similar artists: Mike Watt, Jad Fair, T. Rex, Daniel Johnston
Genre: Alt-Country
SLW cc Watt’s “Help Me” echoes great outsider music making for a beautiful, if uncomfortable, listen.
History tends to favor the music stars…
Follow blindly: Scrimshire and The Ocelots
March 7, 2023
The Ocelots – Basket Case
Genre: Indie Folk, Folk
Never has there been a time in which chart-topping pop stars had less to do about the music that they are releasing than nowadays. This is not because the figureheads have become lazier or less…
All love a bit of mystery: Sociedad Síntrica Dodecafónica and Tim Mechling reviewed
November 26, 2022
Tim Mechling – Sebastian & Kip (Fall)
Genre: Psychedelic / Freak Folk, Indie Folk, Folk rock
Likely the very first thing that you’ll hear a modern pop star say in an interview is how much thought they give to the storytelling aspects of their songwriting.
Caregiver – Reason
Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Similar artists: Phoebe Bridgers, Faye Webster, Mazzy Star
In sports, regularly, it takes years and years for records to be broken by a single person. After that, however, the same record that has stood as an…