Album Review

Let’s talk about effort. Not flashy, billion-dollar, CGI-on-every-frame effort. Not the effort where a guy buys twenty guitars and shoves them through a pedalboard the size of an aircraft carrier. I’m talking about real effort: the kind that happens in basements, back bedrooms, and stubborn hearts. The kind of effort where someone quietly decides, “I […]

There are so many ways to write and curate an album, and Leeds decided to transport you into a place where time is slow enough to let you breathe deeply. Golden Fields Of Sheffield is an album full of love, dreams, and gentle kind of longing from blending timeless influences of classic rock and dream

Beneath the parallels of sport, Brandon Mitchell’s newest album Gametime carries much more depth and meanings. The album is a collection of 15 tracks featuring several artists with different styles of hip-hop. It carries resilience, faith, and positivity over trials and tribulations, perfectly wrapping each song with its sports and athletic-like concept. It takes you

Blueprint Tokyo is back with more cinematic soundscapes and anthemic tracks with their newest album Neon Circuits and the Mission of Hope. It features 16 tracks that highlights the band’s music identity with their excellent fusion of indie rock, textured layers of synths, along with vibrant pop sensibilities. If you’re ever interested in artists like

Zach Tabori’s Attack of the Clout Chasers is what happens when a prog-rock gremlin reads too much Guy Debord, gets permanently brain-wormed by late capitalism, and decides the only way to cope is to record a concept album using jazz musicians, conspiracy boards, and a very large hammer. This isn’t an album. It’s an act

Grunge has always been thriving with its presence and energy — less about approval and pleasing, it demands to be felt and lived through. A Greek band GUS SEVENTY SEVEN unearths this depth with their newest self-release album NINE PATHS IN ONE DIRECTION. This project is the manifestation of the band’s passion for music and

Some albums feel like celebrations. Some feel like statements. Eric Sleeper’s Beautiful Lies feels like the emotional equivalent of finally pulling the plug on a relationship that’s been on life support for far too long. It’s not triumphant. It’s not loud. It’s a long exhale after years of holding your breath. And that’s exactly why

Ready for almost an hour of fun? This amazing album, with three singles out prior to the official  release on April 11th, showcases musical capacity and songwriting expertise to a whole ‘nother level in the context of proper disco and nightclub music. Manu Chevalier wrote, arranged, mixed – he’s basically the mastermind of the entire

Starchild’s Butterfly is what happens when you take queer joy, emotional trauma, and a stack of dance-punk records, throw them into a glitter cannon, and aim it directly at your heart. It’s loud. It’s messy. It’s absolutely trying to make you cry on the dance floor, and it will succeed; not because it’s manipulative, but

Geoff Westen’s MUSIC FOR MY FRIENDS is one of those records that shows up, entirely uninvited, kicks down the door of your carefully curated lo-fi playlist, and loudly declares, “Remember when songs used to be songs?” And before you can reply, it’s already halfway through a synth solo. It’s loud. It’s glossy. It’s borderline ridiculous.