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This is a weird time to be involved with music; it demands we all be content creators, influencers, amateur marketers, compulsive oversharers, and, when we have time, musicians. All the songs now come pre-packaged with personalities, branding, carefully manicured online identities detailing everything the artist had for breakfast and their subsequent thoughts and feelings and […]

You know the modern crisis that is only really a modern crisis is one that begins when someone who you were so easily labeled as ‘just a friend’ sends a totally mundane text that somehow your brain insists is a world-altering event? And then you hear a song capturing that? It’s not a love song,

Love songs are difficult to write. Music has been churning them out for centuries with varying degrees of sincerity and alarming levels of acoustic guitar, but because to make one now, in an era where emotional vulnerability is often filtered through layers of irony or buried under overproduction, requires a certain willingness to be painfully

There are certain kinds of tracks that sound like written half drunk in a studio where no one’s trying to be careful—just plain, honest thoughts spilling over before anyone could try to filter them. War Killer by Reetoxa sounds exactly like that, giving you something that leans into instinct rather than polish. After the light,

Some of the best tracks aren’t filled with complexities or instant hooks. Sometimes, they sound like MILYAM’s Lost In The Jungle where mood, subtlety, and restraint takes control of the whole experience. There’s something so hypnotic right from the start, like briefly glancing at something only to realize after a minute that you’re completely stuck

Some songs don’t play like an old vinyl on a Sunday afternoon. Sometimes, it sounds closer to a document stained with blood, sweat, and mud, like Garrett Anthony Rice’s The Coastal Walls (The Shame Of Everyone). Now based in Greystones, County Wicklow, Garrett Anthony Rice carries a sound inspired by The Smiths, Neil Young, and