Your Soundtrack To Life
Novaix Onyx’s CLOSE is the kind of EP that understands how much can be communicated through a single word. Across six tracks—“Handle,” “Hold It,” “Loaded,” “Rush,” “Close,” and “Under”—Onyx builds…
Some dance tracks take their time introducing themselves, gradually assembling the pieces before finally revealing the destination. DJ Housefarben’s “Fortissimo Rising” appears to have little interest in such patience. From…
Travel songs often fall in love with the places they describe. They linger over coastlines, old streets, cathedral towers, dramatic sunsets, and the kind of scenery that looks as though…
Twenty-six years is an unusually long time to spend finishing a pop song. It is long enough for musical fashions to change several times, for recording technology to transform itself,…
Some musical journeys begin with a departure, but the most meaningful ones are also concerned with everything that remains behind. Across the Ocean towards a Higher Firmament, Norwegian composer Ståle…
There is something wonderfully defiant about an album that believes rock music should still sound big. In an era when production can so easily smooth away the rough edges of…
Some songs belong to a particular era, while others seem to carry that era with them wherever they go. Hamish’s “Singing In My Soul” falls squarely in the latter. The…
Martin Lloyd Howard’s “Surrey Bells” is the kind of instrumental composition that does far more than provide something pleasant to listen to; it creates a place for the listener to…
Magdi Aboul-Kheir’s Replicant Dreams feels like the soundtrack to a science-fiction film that exists somewhere between memory and imagination, a place where vintage synthesizers illuminate futuristic cities, machines march beneath…
One Empty Toybox’s “Cyberstalking” is a wonderfully strange piece of alternative pop because it manages to make an uncomfortable subject feel irresistibly listenable without ever allowing the darkness underneath to…