Wrap Up Warm with Straight White Teeth’s Indie Folk Track “Forever and a Day”
Winter is here, and that means people all around the world need something to keep themselves comfortable, warm and happy in the cold. While others would look to things such as heated blankets or hot chocolate, I’m going straight for “Forever and a Day” by Straight White Teeth. Straight White Teeth is the musical project […]
Caroline Culver’s “Maggie Told Me You Got a New Girl” is Our New Break-Up Anthem
We’ve all been there: you’ve been doing good for awhile, haven’t thought about them at all! Seriously. What was his name, Jeff? Jason? (You pretend to forget, even as you tap onto his instagram story) Oh, he’s back in town. Tap. Tap. Your heart drops. Surely… No, it can’t be. You stare, eyes close to […]
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 […]
LADY SLOTH’s “Freedom Bailey” Will Give You a New Appreciation of Life
Storytelling is one of the best ways to give a song significance. It’s like this weird mental thing where the narrative adds to the music. There have been plenty of moments in my life where I listened to a song, maybe I enjoyed it, maybe I didn’t, but the experience wasn’t really all that deep. […]
Meija’s “Matter Over Mind” is All About the Vibe
One of my favorite things about reviewing music is taking in obscure and (relatively) unknown artists and sharing them with the world. In my search for chill indie songs that would fit well into a winter playlist, the final track on Meija’s Side A EP, “Matter Over Mind” stood out to me. Meija (real name […]
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 […]
Aimee C. Alexander Wants Us to Go Searching In “Storage”
I am a massive fan of test cricket. For those that don’t follow the sport, it’s the version that lasts five days and can still end up in a draw. There is time for a story to develop, for subplots to thicken and for a grand finish to be set up. Give me five days […]
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 […]
Let Zzzahara Haunt Your Ears with “cupid’s out tonight”
As we move towards the end of the year, it’s exciting to see that there are still “single of the year” contenders in our midst. One of the most recent ones, “cupid’s out tonight” by zzzahara, is another single worth taking a listen to. zzzahara is an LA based artist who released an album earlier […]
