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Tension has always been hard rock. It is in the middle of aggression and melody, between chaos and control, between the darkness artists face and the light people seek. Finnish…
The line between melodic rap and alternative R&B has become blurrier and blurrier in the past decade, but it takes more than slick production and catchy hooks to stand out…
There are albums made for solitary reflection, and then there are albums that instantly conjure images of highways stretching toward the horizon, forever. DownTown Mystic (the musical alter ego of…
Some albums are content to explore one genre; others find their identity in the collision of styles. Talkin’ In Colour, the collaborative album from Sweden’s Glam Sam And His Combo…
Concept albums have long been a special niche within hip-hop, giving artists the chance to tell stories that go beyond individual singles and become complete artistic statements. The collaborative project…
Some EPs are designed to entertain, while others challenge the listener to grapple with ideas they might not otherwise encounter. No doubt Watch Me Die Inside’s latest release, Infinity Fall…
Concept albums can often struggle to find the balance between narrative and musical accessibility, often going too far into the story, where individual songs become secondary to the overall concept.…
Known professionally as C’batch, Stephen H. Cumberbatch has been building a reputation for his incredible versatility and steadfast artistic discipline in his approach to music. Throughout his decades-spanning career, he…
There’s something immediately appealing about an album that can’t be pigeonholed into a single genre. C’Batch’s The Vault 3—Club / Dance / R&B-Soul / Funk / Pop / Techno /…
Some of the albums are engaging, while others require the listener to put away familiar modes of thinking. The problematic nature of the Motihari Brigade is squarely in the latter…