So there’s this track. It’s called “I Found a Monster.” It’s by Seth Schaeffer, and listening to it is a bit like being emotionally waterboarded by your inner child. You know, the one who’s still mad you never learned to skateboard and occasionally dreams in grayscale. But, weirdly, in a good way. Like therapy, if […]
There’s something uniquely chaotic about rebranding your hip-hop duo by putting on color-coded gloves and announcing your creative rebirth like a pro wrestling tag team emerging from an extended nap. And yet, that’s exactly what Normal Saturday; the once-quiet, now-very-much-not-quiet duo of Crumbs and DK 4 Now, have done with their return album TwoHandTouch. Orange
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Sun to Rise is a four-track EP by Stephen Foster, and it features songs wherein this isn’t even the kind of music that kicks the door down or even knocks politely. It’s more like the emotional equivalent of mist forming on a window. You’re not sure when it started, you’re not even entirely sure what
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Let’s say you’ve had a long day. Not the catastrophic kind, just the standard existential dread with a side of self-doubt. You want something to listen to that won’t lie to you about how everything’s fine, but also won’t actively make you feel worse. Congratulations. You’re exactly the kind of person Michael Lazar made Daydreaming
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My Spanish is bad. Not in the “oh I’m a bit rusty” way; more in the “I thought ‘sombras’ meant ‘some bras’ until this morning” way. And yet, none of that seemed to matter when I listened to Helladdict’s self-titled debut EP. That’s the thing about metal: it doesn’t care if you paid attention in
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Let’s be honest: the music world isn’t short on reinventions. Every month some former background character from the ‘90s pops up in an NPR article about their “new sound,” usually involving synthesizers, a leather jacket, and an existential crisis. But Johnny Batchelor is doing something different with Ain’t Nobody. He’s not reinventing anything. He’s simply
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You know that feeling when you’re watching the end of the world? Like, the skies are orange, democracy is on fire, your group chat is radio silent… and someone hands you a disco ball and says, “Try to look hot while it burns”? That’s the emotional thesis of Love Is The Revolution, the third studio
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There’s a very specific kind of insomnia that doesn’t feel like panic; it feels like paperwork. That’s where Wake Up lives. The debut EP from Darling I Dreamt isn’t so much an emotional breakdown as it is a carefully-filed stack of late-night thoughts, catalogued during the long, grey hours where your brain refuses to shut
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We Are All Bots is what happens when a rock band stares too long into the glowing eyes of a Boston Dynamics dog and asks, “What if this was operatic?” In just under ten minutes, Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice manage to craft a concept EP that sounds like Queen crash-landing into 2001: A
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There’s a certain kind of silence that follows an old tape hiss. It’s the kind that feels like the room itself is holding its breath. I heard it once in a half-abandoned church where someone had left an old cassette recorder running after choir practice. The reverb, the warmth, the eerie calm; it all stuck