Alastair Leonard’s “Pavlova Dogs” Uses Simple Tricks to Find Hidden Spaces
Spotify Wrapped is a digitized summary of your listening on the platform for the year. It told me I had listened to over 3000 artists across 95 genres, including the cheery tones of post-doom metal, with a bit of indie soul as an antidote. But I don’t know which genre Alastair Leonard’s “Pavlova Dogs” belongs […]
Jett Foreman’s “Can We Be the Ocean?” Is Fit for a Movie Scene
Mary Robinette Kowal’s Washington Post review of Andy Weir’s novel, Project Hail Mary, isn’t wholly positive. That’s cool, you can’t like everything about everything. But in that review, there is one bit that stands out. …but the novel seems written to be a movie… I don’t see the problem with that. Creativity doesn’t stay in […]
“Layers” by Joel Ansett Asks Simple Questions That Open Up Entire Worlds
The first thing that struck me when I heard “Layers” was the scrape of a string on Joel Ansett’s acoustic guitar. There’s a simple honesty to it that I love. It’s part of the song and impure, and this is a song full of impurities. It’s not out of key, it’s not going against some […]
