It is something truly disconcerting about hearing Blunt Blade in the dark with the album Forgiveness. The seven-track adventure of the Minnesota multi-instrumentalist does not only cross boundaries, but destroys them, leaving a sonic terrain that is at once intimate and universal, haunting. By the first few bars of “Justified,” where the singer delivers the incantatory lines in a baritone, […]
Pop/Review Larry Karpenko – Believe the Promise
It is somehow deeply touching when a song can take you back several thousand years with the first notes. This is precisely what Larry Karpenko does in his song, Believe the Promise, and he succeeds in connecting the ancient account of the desire of the Israelites to be free with the modern challenges that we all have to deal with. […]
Pop/Review Mick J. Clark – Anuther Sunny Hulliday
It is so refreshing to have an artist who is not afraid to go out and have pure unadulterated fun and Mick J. Clark gives us all that and more with his song, Anuther Sunny Hulliday. It is not a song, it is a party in the song, a four-minute break of the complications of the modern world. The first […]