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Why “Falling 4 U” Works: It Doesn’t Try to Be Anything Other Than Devastatingly Earnest

Every once in a while, a love song sneaks up on you, not because it’s saying anything particularly groundbreaking, but because it’s delivered with such brutal sincerity that you’re forced to sit down and reckon with it. Enter Cydan’s “falling 4 u,” a track that feels less like a song and more like the emotional […]

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Michellar’s “Never Say Sorry” is heartbreak and forgiveness in restraint

Heartbreaks doesn’t always need to be disguised in raging percussion hits and overly-dramatic lyrics to be relatable. Michellar’s latest single Never Say Sorry takes a soft, quieter road to prove it still hurts—even more when it’s delivered in a soul-stirring voice. Commemorating their one-year milestone in the music scene, Michellar is back with another evocative,

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Here’s the Thing About Different Now: It Thrives in Contradiction

So, Meena put out an album called Different Now. And honestly? It is. Different, that is. It’s one of those records that refuses to sit down politely and say, “Here’s a genre you can file me under.” Instead, it leaps across shoegaze, trip-hop, electronics, and whatever other moods happen to pass through the studio, then

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Breakups Don’t Often Feel Clean; Neither Does Wotts’ Terminal and That’s What Makes It Stick

Breakup songs are a dime a dozen. Half of Spotify’s indie playlists are padded with them, and most sound like someone opened GarageBand, whispered into a USB mic, and called it “vulnerable.” But “terminal”, the new single from Ottawa duo Wotts, does something different. It doesn’t cry at you. It doesn’t romanticize collapse. Instead, it

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BruceBan$hee Doubles Down on Something Simpler and Riskier: Sincerity Through Chaos

There’s a certain type of rapper who spends years buffing their sound until it’s as glossy and frictionless as a Spotify playlist made for dental offices. BruceBan$hee is not that rapper. His new EP, 4th Wall, is what happens when you take the polite façade of modern alt-rap, set it on fire, and then throw

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Chris Portka’s “The Album Everyone Wants” is a Memoir to the Strange, Unnoticed Edges of the American Songbook

Chris Portka truly understands what makes music great and timeless. You won’t get anything half-baked, or a contrived attempt to be familiar. The Album Everyone Wants is true to its name, not because it’s anchored in mainstream trends but because it’s completely its own, honest and intentional. The Album Everyone Wants is Chris Portka’s most

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Jordan Corey’s Newest Album, “The Tunnel + The Light” Is an Exploration of What It Means to Be an Artist Today

I can pretty much sum up what it means to be an artist today, but instead of writing thousands and thousands of words, I’ll let Jordan Corey’s newest album, “the tunnel + the light” show you. The wah guitar riff throughout the first track, “Friend Like Me,” fits the overall vibe of the track. If

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Transgalactica’s “Joyce Of The Market” Archives Coffin Ships to Corporate Horns

Once in a while, there are songs that emerge like it has clawed its way out from centuries just to tell history. Transgalactica’s Joyce Of The Market belongs to those few cuts, the kind that isn’t just for entertainment nor for a simple nostalgia. It’s not hard to see why Joyce Of The Market is

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“Bread & Circuses” Is Jagged, Haunting, and Utterly Committed to Its Own Vision

There’s a certain audacity in writing a song about a schizophrenic patient breaking out of a mental facility, stumbling into a circus, and watching lions eat clowns. On paper, that sounds like the kind of pitch you’d get from someone cornering you outside a record shop in the ‘90s; wild, messy, and maybe brilliant, maybe

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PEOPLEZ330’s Grace First Swings Between Moods and Genres With Reckless Confidence

There’s a special kind of boldness in titling your record Grace First. It’s the sort of name that sounds like it should be stitched on a motivational pillow, but in practice becomes this sharp thesis statement: whatever else happens, whatever braggadocio or flexing or chaos exists in the record, it’s grounded in the simple idea

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