Album Review

There’s a rare and deeply underappreciated serenity that settles in when you start a rap album and realize that it has absolutely no interest in being a TikTok trend. No trap-snare tantrums engineered for 15-second dopamine loops. No wink-wink challenges for teenagers in LED-lit bedrooms. No frantic metaphors desperately auditioning for a slot on a […]

With a balance of depth and transparency, each song on this record takes notice of the void in which audiences feel the need to fill when looking for new music to listen to. “All at Sea” by daidrum, a title that will be understood in due time, offers a selection of tracks mainly within the

There’s no exact word or way to describe this album – it’s a mixture of everything you and everyone else loves: lo-fi, hip-hop, a bit of R&B, the list goes on. But, that’s a good thing, as you wouldn’t really find yourself ever getting tired of listening to each song. SV collaborated with Antonia Marquee

This is actually an album, and a damn good one at that. Hailing from Goldsboro, NC, T.E.E and T-Quail have somehow managed to take two completely different life paths and turn them into a cohesive, deeply personal project that smacks you in the face with raw emotion, introspection, and just the right amount of “I’m

For a record regarding itself inspired by the synth pop-feel of the eighties, Moonscapes brings that modern, futuristic ambience to the table, only with a couple spoonfuls of melancholy. It’s definitely a unique combination of sounds that may well be opposing each other, but it works in a way that it amplifies the emotions relayed

There are two types of bands in this world; those who make tight, focused albums with a clear sense of purpose and those who make 18-track double LPs because they physically cannot stop themselves from making music. Road Movie Dream is what happens when a band sets out to record a single album over a

ZZ Ward has always been kind of a blues artist, but she’s also kind of been a rock artist and kind of a pop artist all throughout her career. As of now, well, that’s over… because Liberation is the sound of ZZ Ward finally giving up on trying to be palatable and instead deciding to

Most of the songs that we listen to are usually dedicated to a muse of the artist, like Da Vinci to Mona Lisa, but it’s rare for us to hear tracks in an entire album that are purely dedicated to places—the story and culture that they have and their people. It is safe to say

If the album title rings any bells, it’s because it can be correlated to “The Chi”, a Chicago-based TV show that started in 2018, which would give you more ideas as to who Giffy Pluggo is, and what his motive is in curating this record. Featuring a handful of talent, “Douda” is a combination of

Sometimes, the absence of words are much louder. “Drifting Intervals” is exactly what it prescribes – half an hour divided into eleven parts of what seems to be… calmness. Is it synth? Effects on a keyboard? De Moi refers to it as an ambience, musical intervals arranged and layered to create a serene atmosphere. When