Something truly strong about music created out of the actual suffering is that it has real power, and this is precisely what Naomi Neva conveys in her song This Is Over, with incredible authenticity. It is a breakup song which does not succumb to sentimentality, instead directing female anger and helplessness elsewhere to create something actually cathartic. The performance of […]
ROCK/Review Matt DeAngelis – Livin’ It
Matt DeAngelis has created something truly valuable in the form of the song that turns anxiety during the pandemic era into a spiritual exercise on faith, patience, and contentment despite the underlying uncertainty. It is music that will not answer simply and provide the real spiritual nourishment. The instrumentation is instantly attractive due to its advanced eclecticism. Rapid piano tonings […]
Pop-Rock/Review Exzenya – Ugly When You Love Me
We do have a kind of beauty in music, which is able to transform coarse rage into something pointed, almost graceful – and that is what Exzenya accomplishes with her Ugly When You Love Me. Yes, it is dark electronic pop, but it also happens to be much more piercing, the type of song that looks right into the face […]
ROCK/Review Fiona Amaka – Wingman
It is something really unique about “Wingman,” because it is able to be both a classic and a modern track. Fiona Amaka has given the love song its due, and there is no cliché and trappings of the genre, the song has emotional and sonic appeal. The singing is directly arresting. The delivery of the song has a lot of […]
COUNTRY/Review Courtney Jean – Cloudberry
Music has a silent type of wonder that makes it seem like the music is talking to you in a one-on-one way and yet it somehow relates to something much larger, and that wonder is executed with such an easy grace in Courtney Jean- Cloudberry. The song does not simply start, but slowly comes like a person opening a door […]
Metal/Review Awaiting Abigail – Left Out
It is somehow devastatingly quiet when a song does not conceal how it is feeling. Left Out by Awaiting Abigail is precisely such a work, a burdensome, almost suffocating experience of invisibility and alienation, but with the feeling of true conviction. It does not attract you with theatrics, but with sincerity. The twin guitars catch the eye of the listener […]
ROCK/Review Lode Star – Angel of Darkness (feat. Jonell Elliot)
A cover that comes to a person wrapped in such an enticing context a remastered favorite game, a cult film recreated, etc. there is real danger of disappointment. But Lode Star have created something beyond nostalgia, something that turned a 2003 song into a truly resonant modern rock, that stands on its own magnificently. What first comes to mind is […]