Your Soundtrack To Life
There are songs about missing someone, songs about wanting someone back, and then there are songs that understand the strange emotional territory between those two states—the place where memory, regret,…
There are songs that borrow imagery from history because it looks dramatic, and then there are songs that use history as a mirror. OpCritical’s “Guillotine” belongs firmly to the latter…
There is something immediately compelling about a release that refuses to remain in one emotional lane, and S J Denney’s “The Ballad of the Night / A Mellow Affair” makes…
There are songs about loss that feel like open wounds and there are songs that feel like the scar left behind, still tender, still capable of hurting if you touch…
Ava Valianti is 17 and already showing that young doesn’t necessarily mean simple emotions. Following a breakout year that saw her named First Runner-Up in American Songwriter’s Road Ready Talent…
There’s something so disarming about a love song that doesn’t try to complicate romance more than it has to. Aurealis’ “How I Feel” has that kind of open-hearted simplicity, disguising…
Sean MacLeod has always understood the power of a strong melody, but on “Inside Out (Radio Edit)” he reveals the outcome when that melodic instinct is placed under a much…
Some ambient compositions attempt to create an escape from the world. Others realize that the world itself can be an escape. Noah Crist’s “Welcome to Loch Raven” is firmly in…
“Heat Check” is the kind of track that makes most sense when you stop thinking about music as something that merely enters through the ears and start considering what happens…
The kind of freedom that comes when life no longer asks you to prove yourself. That can be disconcerting at first, because so much of adulthood is constructed around motion:…