EP Review

Let’s be clear from the start: Gemeinsam Stark by Stahlschmiede is not here to make friends. It is here to smash your expectations into a fine powder, weaponize them, and throw them directly back at your face with the force of a blast beat summoned from the gut of a dying star. Formed in the

Imagine Billy Idol is cryogenically frozen in a chrome sarcophagus beneath Camden Market sometime around 1987. Then, decades later, he’s thawed out in 2014 by accident during the recording of No Fixed Address, a.k.a. the Nickelback album where they briefly flirted with electronic music and accidentally made a synth-rock soundtrack for the apocalypse and ended

Have you ever put on an album and suddenly felt like you were the main character in a slow-burning indie film about loneliness? That’s Breakfast, the latest EP from Hong Kong-based Besides. It doesn’t just play in the background; it seeps into the room, filling every quiet space with the kind of melancholy that makes

Ted Eckhardt has been at this music thing for a while, but with Mind at Ease, his solo project Peacock Coyote finally arrives like a well-worn leather jacket; timeless, effortlessly cool, and vaguely smelling of nostalgia. If you like The War on Drugs, heartland rock, or just the idea of staring meaningfully out of a

So, have you ever listened to a project that makes you want to run through a brick wall, but in a really energetic and yet cool way? That’s exactly what I PLEAD INSANITY does. unpolished* on their debut EP give us a six-track riot grrrl-infused adrenaline shot straight to the face, except the syringe is

There’s something about Marcus: The Apex Predator!’s EP that’s nostalgic, maybe how their guitars sound, or how they play their tunes overall, but they still manage to capture the fun vibe of indie rock throughout all five tracks of “Newborn Fossil”. If you catch the drift, there’s nothing better than instantly getting greeted by the

Emphasizing on grace and melodic structures, Pawel Ratynski lets the music speak for itself, for himself, and for everyone else. As a matter of fact, he claims that the role of music “builds our image of the world in a more universal and lasting way than words”. Let’s face it, every score is not like

Ungoliath embodies an incredible storyteller-esque aura within all four tracks of their EP “The Fourfold Descent”. It takes listeners on a journey, the undeniable feeling of being taken on a journey to the band’s world of emotions and perspective evident. Just from the titles themselves, one would see how poetic this whole record is; it