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Track Review
Some Moments Sound Better With Fuzz and Volume Like Reetoxa’s “Bottle”
Some moments simply make more sense when they’re turned into songs—and even better with a little fuzz and volume. That’s exactly how Reetoxa uncapped Bottle: a thirty-year-old memory now playing with grit and nostalgia. Hailing from Melbourne, Reetoxa is fronted by Jason McKee, who teamed up with producer Simon Moro to bring three decades’ worth
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A Hauntingly Intimate Masterclass in Emotional Restraint and Atmospheric Tension
“Maybe if I breathe / I’ll feel you in the air” is the kind of line that stops the clock and Ari Fraser uses it to anchor See Me in a place of absolute stillness. The track feels less like a song and more like a quiet confession whispered into the dark where every syllable
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Magumbo’s We Belong Together Cover Works Out of Sheer Glorious Camp
Some cover songs take a classic song for a politely restrained reinterpretation. They’ll adjust the chords slightly, or maybe swap an acoustic for a piano. They’ll slow things down by 10 BPM and assume that’s job done. Others seem to take the approach that is marked “Crazy ideas”. Magumbo’s “cover” of Mariah Carey’s “We Belong
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Resilience Never Sounded This Cool in Dean RÖK’s “Fire & Stars”
Nothing sounds cooler (and hotter) than resilience rising through distortion and booming rock layers. That’s the exact energy Dean RÖK unleashes in his newest single Fire & Stars. Dean RÖK is a Portuguese rocker with a soulful fire in his voice, along with a knack for fusing blues depth, modern grit, and a cinematic sense
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Step Into The Light With Moon and Aries’ “High Noon”
Some days call for a track like High Noon by Moon and Aries, the kind that’s not too loud, not chaotic, but enough to sit with you when your thoughts won’t simply settle. Moon and Aries is a transatlantic music duo connecting Canada and Germany through a sound they describe as Electronic Cinematic Soul. True
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Hip-Hop Feels Too Real in Ray Gibbz’s “Hope and Need”
At some point, every artist delivers a track that blurs the line between performance and their personal truth. And for Ray Gibbz, it has to be his latest release, Hope and Need. Hope and Need is a testament to the technical and artistic growth of Ray Gibbz, a self-taught producer, songwriter, and rapper from San
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“Song for Pete Ham” Is Probably the Best Tribute Anyone Could Offer
In a move that is both incredibly sweet and a bit on the dark side, LY@TT have penned a tribute song to Pete Ham, one of music’s most unfortunate lost souls, and decided that the best way to honor him was to leave the painful parts in all their jagged glory. For listeners only familiar
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Hip-hop Can Sound Like A Myth and Ray Gibbz’s “Royal Ruby” Proves It
It definitely takes some guts to rap about ancient goddesses, mythology, and ancestry. Because let’s be honest, those aren’t exactly the topics dominating playlists right now. Yet Ray Gibbz leans fully into them on Royal Ruby, as if he’d been waiting centuries to tell this story to the world. Ray Gibbz is a self-taught producer,
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Deportee Treats Genre Like an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Rather Than a Stringent Doctrine on “Black Women Are Not Cheap”
Some songs show up with the subtleness of a brick through a window. They do exactly what they say they’re going to do, point out who the baddies are and then proceed to scream their message at you until you either agree with them or take yourselves and your attitudes somewhere else. Deportee’s “Black Women