Track Review

X-ANONYMOUS Couldn’t Have Picked a Better Title Than “CLAIM IT ALL”; They Absolutely Do

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 […]

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Credible Witness Turns Financial Anxiety Into a Fuzzed-Out Celebration of Survival and Stubborn Optimism

The air in a cramped apartment feels a little lighter when Paycheck to Paycheck by Credible Witness starts to rattle the floorboards. It arrives with the frantic energy of a morning commute where the train is late but the sun is shining and you still believe in the possibility of a win. This is a

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“Kinda Love It” Doesn’t Attempt to Gloss Over the Mess or Make the Situation Feel Anything but Chaotic, and That Is What Makes It So Amazing

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,

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“Promise to Love You” Is Tender Without Becoming Sentimental, Intimate Without Becoming Suffocating

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

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War Killer By Reetoxa Is What Punk Sounds Like When It Still Means It

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,

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