Protected: Sacha Mullin’s Social Touch Makes Pop a Little More Unpredictable
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Ryan James Monroe’s “MIRROR BALL” Wants You to Dance Through the Identity Crisis
Credit: Original Painting by Perri Neri There’s a very particular type of optimism that can only be sustained after so much of it has been exhausted. “MIRROR BALL,” Ryan James Monroe‘s new glam-rock single, is more or less a prayer to the notion that the years somehow make you less appealing. The track reimagines the
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Sandy Martin’s “Ice Candy” Wants to Take You to the Stars
Sandy Martin’s “Ice Candy” is a song about a goddess who has existed since before time, possesses enough power to treat the universe as her personal playground and still cannot find someone to love. This is, objectively, a lot to ask a pop song to explain before the second verse. Fortunately, Martin approaches the premise
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franxie’s “Stone” Turns Imperfection Into the Point
Franxie’s “Stone” could have gone in the way of a particular kind of singer-songwriter who treats emotional distress as an opportunity to place one sad piano chord beneath another until the listener understands that sadness has occurred. Instead, it finds something more interesting in the familiar territory of anxiety, exhaustion, and the difficult business of
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Adam James Returns to His Roots With Reflective Rocker “Mad ’Bout You”
Sometimes you have to look back in order to go forward, and this is exactly what Adam James has managed to achieve with his latest single ‘Mad ‘Bout You’. Looking to his influences, Adam’s latest track makes sure not to miss out any element along the way, proving that we’re able to draw on the
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Naoko Finds Quiet Beauty in the Temporary on “Sea of Light”
Some songs ask for your attention; others achieve it by politely declining to scream into the aether. Naoko Hiranuma’s new “Sea of Light” firmly belongs in the second half. Between its sparse folk structure and airy dream-pop layers to the candid vocal performance, this is a track unfolding at the patient pace of a person
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SoundFarm Gets Messy With the Grooves on “Suck It Up”
There’s a certain amount of swagger required to release a song that happily leaves its threads out on the seams. Modern music tends to devolve into a contest to weed out every single human flaw and to force every drum to align to the grid or smoothen vocals until they might qualify for a passport
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Piper Connolly Has Created Something Quite Honest and Substantial on “body bag”
Despite the brilliantly melodramatic title, Piper Connolly‘s latest single “body bag”, which sounds like the title for either a horror soundtrack or early-2000s emo compilation album has nothing at all to do with the actual idea of death. The idea that “nobody can do what we all see as justice”, in this song about people
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Michellar’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Mind” Seems Utterly Happy to Remain Where It’s Gotten Itself To
Some songs are about after you’ve made the wrong decision. Some songs are about while you’re making the wrong decision. “Can’t get you out of my mind” by Michellar falls clearly into the latter category. “Can’t get you out of my mind” isn’t a song about healthy emotional boundaries. It isn’t a song about moving
Laji George’s ‘This Is My World’ Finds Strength In The Storm
After years fronting the alt-rock outfit Pseutopia, New York City’s Laji George moves to center stage on ‘This Is My World’, his debut solo single, opting for sincerity over flash. Released on July 2, the track is both a declaration of purpose and a personal introduction from a singer ready to embrace vulnerability. With elements
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