Billie Eilish - 'Therefore I Am'

November 12, 2020

Billie Eilish’s ‘Therefore I Am’ is a caustic diss track if there ever was one. Her signature casual close-to-the-mic vocal croonings and chattings makes the unlucky object of this song’s message feel lower than an afterthought. That famous philosophical phrase from …

Lxury - 'Tokyo'

November 4, 2020

Andy “Lxury” Smith is back with his final transportive escape into the Inner Club, that all-too important space we’ve occupied often throughout this year. Relatively hot off the tails of September’s Trinity Lounge EP, Smith has swapped end-of-summer sentiments for …

Loelash - Lapse

October 30, 2020

Italian-raised London-based newcomer Lorenzo “Loelash” Lucchetti is here with his sophomore EP, heralding a self-proclaimed shift in style for the multi instrumentalist. The artist's classic piano and saxophone roots shine through the bubbly, rhythmically complex …

TOBACCO - Hot Wet & Sassy

October 30, 2020

TOBACCO partners with Trent Reznor to elaborate on his signature gross-out-electro-shoe-gaze-grunge-core-yada-yada sound. Hot Wet & Sassy has a handful of successes, which stray far enough away from their “sound” to demonstrate their musicality. However, …

Ariana Grande - Positions

October 30, 2020

Ariana believes in the laws of attraction, or at least wants her audience to think she does. As much fun as the top tier of top 40s artists have had evoking Kabbalistic imagery and insinuating witchiness and sex magic, I can’t see a reason not to roll with it …

Matthew Cardinal - Asterisms

October 27, 2020

amiskowâciy-wâskahikanihk, also known as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is the home of musician Matthew Cardinal. One of Three of the moccasingaze band nêhiyawak, Cardinal has been releasing bits of music in the form of experimental idea cassettes at live shows …

Affect Display - Animal Drift Animal

October 23, 2020

Some people think the only good music on this planet is music which follows their expectations and doesn’t ask them any questions. It hovers in familiar chord progressions, in recognizable compositional syntax, never stepping beyond genre lines. “Talent” becomes …

Kenny Glasgow - Mean Machine

October 23, 2020

Kenny Glasgow throws open your thick, double lined blackout curtains. Harsh sunlight spills forth over the room, it’s warmth reaching your skin at the same time as the brightness overwhelms your vision. Glasgow wastes no time with ‘Hot Mess;’ he is here to watch …

Nuit Oceān - FIRE DIVINE

October 23, 2020

Steve Mesmin, establishing himself in the ranks of soulful electronic singer-songwriters as Nuit Oceān, mixes broken-hearted vocals with broken-hearted piano and mournfully glitchy production that somehow summates to something less depressing and highly …

Nosaj Thing - No Mind

October 21, 2020

Los Angeles sonic sculptor Jason nosaj thing Chung is back with his latest, a soft fractal carved in matte black marble, No Mind. Along with a website that uses images gathered from public webcams near the geographic locations of its visitors to provide an endless …