Bicep’s new single ‘Atlas’ continues along the lines of 2018’s Rain EP as a cavernous dance epic to rival the grittiest, post-postmodern, post studio cinematic adaptation of The Odyssey set in a post-apocalyptic Middle Eastern desert. It’s energy is a raw slow-burn, and …
Read MorePantha du Prince - Conference of Trees
There is a place called the Cathedral Grove out on the west coast of North America. I have never been, but, as someone with an intellectual interest in art and the sublime, I read about it often and imagine from afar. The heavy height and silence of the douglas fir …
Read MoreCaroline Rose - Freak Like Me
I think humor is funny because it’s rooted in truth, and the funniest standup comedians are the ones who take their acts one step (or two steps) further than is considered “socially appropriate” in the present company. They are thinking what we are all thinking. But …
Read MoreBullion - We Had A Good Time
Oh boy, there is nothing else quite like smooth crooning and chill synthetic instrumentals to tickle our ears and keep us calm in the trials of life. Thank you Bullion for We Had A Good Time. Sing onward about the distant shores of love, memory and sentimentality. If I could …
Read MoreBeatrice Dillon - Workaround
Workaround by fresh London-based producer Beatrice Dillon injects some exciting experimentation and collaborations into our springtime wardrobe. This debut album is a unified concept for musicians and music nerds alike: what happens when you position the …
Read MoreBrent Faiyaz - Fuck the World (3SR)
Listening to Brent Faiyaz’s much-anticipated new album Fuck The World is like taking a nighttime stroll through a densly-populated city and peering into the lit windows as you pass by the residential buildings—a series of small low-key vignettes or an anthology of …
Read MoreDan Deacon - Mystic Familiar
I hugged Dan Deacon once, in the middle of a sweaty night many identities ago in Knoxville, Tennessee. …
Read MoreHalsey - Manic
From Persephone to Ophelia to Marilyn Monroe, we as a Western audience have been collectively obsessed with the tragedy of the fallen beauty queen for a long time. After two world wars, global societal upheavals, the …
Read More2019 Roundup // Vagabon - Vagabon
Cameroonian-American artist Laetitia Tamko’s second full-length album is self-titled Vagabon. It has been on repeat in my cozy studio at home for a while now. She pressed it onto a beautiful vinyl, a translucent orange that brightens …
Read MoreBella Boo - Once Upon a Passion
As can be expected from Sweden’s now infamous Studio Barnhus, where the eclectic is the foundation upon which the castle stands, Bella Boo’s debut album Once Upon A Passion is a playful experiment in juxtaposition. Bella Boo …
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