Track Review

Harry Kappen’s “The Longing” Holds Too Much To Be Forgotten

Once in a while, you’ll stumble upon a song that makes you stare blankly at the wall because it touches some buried wound you thought you’ve forgotten. This time, that song is Harry Kappen‘s latest single, The Longing. Harry Kappen is an acclaimed Dutch multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer. Now, he steps on the stage with

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“It Was Written” Is Designed to Sit With You, Like an Afterimage Burned Into Your Vision

There’s a certain type of rapper who doesn’t need to scream about how authentic they are because the authenticity is baked into every syllable. Black Silver, better known as The Navigator, falls squarely into that camp. His new single “It Was Written” doesn’t so much announce itself as it does loom into view, slow and

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Eylsia Nicolas’ “A Beautiful Mess” Will Make You Dive Headfirst Into The Flame

You can’t call it pop music if it doesn’t play between chaos and sleek hooks. And there are rare cuts like Eylsia Nicolas’ “A Beautiful Mess” thriving in that duality, the kind that will leave you aching and glistening at the same time. Eylsia Nicolas is an American singer-songwriter of Irish and Filipino heritage. From

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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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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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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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Edie Yvonne’s “Look Me In The Eye” Sounds Like An Oddly Familiar Feeling of Being Unseen

There’s an epidemic of sad songs that lacks real depth. And when it falls flat on substance, you’d know they value it as aesthetic than vulnerability. Edie Yvonne refuses to be a part of that with Look Me In The Eye. Edie Yvonne is a 16-year-old LA-based singer-songwriter. With the release of Look Me In

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