Lightweight Champion’s “Daisy” is the Age Old She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
Maybe this song was the message he left on her answering machine. He knows Daisy lied that she’d be visiting her family, but he wants her to come over. It’s a bit of a long, rambling, message. It’s a uniquely pedestrian version of a fantasy, about food and a coin collection and conversations and reading […]
Oversoon’s “Reflection” – A Thoughtful Pizzicato Expression of Love and Faith in Relationship
“Reflection”, by Oversoon, and “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye, share pizzicato stylings and a mournful beginning. However, where “Somebody That I Used To Know” continues to wallow in regret and self-pity (and hey, sometimes you gotta wallow a bit, you know?), “Reflection” resolves to overcome both personal failings, and disappointment in a […]
Angel Envy’s “Forlorn Cactus” Portrays How Love Makes Fools Of Us All
If every rose has its thorn, does every cactus have a rose? Love is confusing. Angel Envy’s “Forlorn Cactus” hits like a young kid in the back seat of a car on a first ever family road trip, trying to make sense of how everything is new and strange by narrating their feelings in a […]
The Apparent Calm of Shy Yearning in SOMOH’s “Anything”
Sophia Moran (SOMOH), 20-year-old London-based Indie artist, has a subtle intensity in delivering her song “Anything,” about the yearning inherent in a romance that is mutually understood and desired, but unspoken and not yet in motion. The song begins a bit jouncy. It’s not bubblegum energy, but kind of like how some folks, when they’re […]
Hope in the Ebb and Flow of Lena Douglas’s “Friends of the Future”
A calm and consistent, easy and jazz-like, harmonic background functions as the ambient context for lyrics that are rhythmically structured – not in phrases, or in lines, – but rather, like breaths. The words emerge like air being exhaled, slowly and comfortably, but consistently and steadily. We need such music. When I’m away from the […]
The Unrequited Love in Mary Middlefield’s “Band Aid”
At first, it seems that Mary Middlefield’s beautiful song “Band Aid” is about the kind of unrequited love that takes place in what is already supposed to be a romantic relationship. The relationship is unequal – one person is looking for love, but the other person is only looking for some a way to patch […]
Belle Shea’s “Cheyenne” is a Goodbye that Leaves You Speechless
It’s a music reviewer’s job to… well, review music. You’re supposed to have a lot of words to describe a song. But once in a while, a song will come along that stops you in your tracks, because any description you could give it would just fall short. And it’s because the song itself is […]
Around The Sun In 80 Ways
Songs make my mind a traveler, and as I listened to GALASO’s EP Around the Sun, my thoughts ventured to a few different places. Well, one place in particular. It might sound trite, but GALASO’s smooth vocals brought me back to the old roller rink- so much so that I Googled “Roller Rink.” (What do […]
Blooming and Growing; An Interview With Kyla Tilley
When Kyla Tilley was writing and developing the song “Bloom and Grow”, she was living in Montreal, during the pandemic. Not long afterward, she and her husband were living in Newfoundland. The timing of the move wasn’t accidental coincidence. Here’s her account of those days… “Our neighbour started out being passive aggressive about the music. I […]
“Lightning Rider” Arrives on Wispy Clouds
Smooth vocals soaring over flute and guitar start “Lightning Rider” with a lilting “Do you want to be my…?”, repeated like the sing-song voices of children at play. Then the saw-like buzz of the cello enters, and similar vocals – an octave lower than the first – cut in with a more rugged earnestness. The […]
