Your Soundtrack To Life
Some Halloween albums contain the obvious decorations already in place: predictable ghosts, familiar screams, theatrical effects, and a range of musical tricks meant to create a fleeting sense of terror.…
There are albums that come with an image. And then there are albums that create their own image. C’batch’s The Vault 4 – Cinematic is definitely the latter, unfolding less…
There’s something inherently compelling about music that recognizes connection is rarely as clean as we think it should be. Relationships go awry, desire becomes obsession, communication gets tangled, and sometimes…
Some albums are records of a moment in an artist’s life; others seem like they were necessary to get through that moment in the first place. The third album of…
There are records that use heaviness as an aesthetic, and there are records that use heaviness as an emotional language. Goliath’s Salt & Static, Pick Up, falls neatly into the…
Rock music never really had to reinvent itself to remain exciting. Occasionally all you need is a great riff, a catchy chorus, a couple of guitars turned up loud enough,…
There is a certain kind of confidence running through FREE to FEEL, the latest EP from The New Citizen Kane, and it is not the kind that has to stand…
Motko’s presentation of the idea of home is immediately revealing. The lowercase title is deliberate, understated, almost deliberately anti-ceremonial, and that same sensibility runs through this nine-track album. There’s no…
An album that refuses to pretend that the future is predictable is immediately compelling. Previsioni del tempo incerto is the ambitious new project of DONELLI A.I. ENSEMBLE, and it is…
There’s something immediately gripping to the opening moments of “Fear,” the title track from Cruel Ploy’s new five-song EP. It doesn’t boom out the speakers with bombast or bludgeon the…