Your Soundtrack To Life
Grief can make the past feel painfully distant, as though the people who shaped us belong to a world we can visit only through memories. On Dedication, Ukrainian Crimean Tatar…
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…
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…
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…
R. Nelson’s Cup Of Tea EP is the kind of release that understands a song does not necessarily have to end when the original recording is finished. Sometimes, a strong…
There is something immediately disarming about a title like It Sucks Getting Old. It does not dress itself up in poetic language or attempt to disguise the subject behind a…
Katie Noir’s The Aftermath EP begins with an unusually compelling premise: what happens after you finally let people see the parts of yourself you have spent years protecting? Released on…
Some concept albums are constructed around elaborate fictional worlds, while others use a particular story to ask questions that extend far beyond the characters who inhabit it. Adorati Spiriti, the…