Your Soundtrack To Life
Echoes of Paradise doesn’t really start but rather arrives, coming out of astral piano arpeggios, shimmering strings, and an ethereal atmosphere that seems to be somewhere between a dream and…
Some songs already come with a story, and some songs make you think of your own story before they finish. Keesha Blair’s “The Inheritance” is a good example. The track…
Relic, the latest historical meditation from Trude and Soldiers, is immediately unsettling, because the song does not approach war from the perspective we usually expect. Instead of telling the story…
LIGHT OF BLUE “Sugar Ocean Girl” arrives like a sudden change in weather, opening with rolling waves before a glistening melody begins to shimmer across the soundscape. It is an…
There is something instantly appealing about a song that captures the strange contradiction of falling in love after heartbreak. You know what it’s like to lose your footing, remember the…
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…