The sense of nostalgia in music is extremely specific, and Michellar of San Francisco manages to replicate it with The Star so easily. It is not much of an experience like listening to a song but rather an opening of an ancient photograph that you have forgotten, where the corners are warm and the memory is glowing. Produced on several […]
Pop/Review Rellyo Bambini – Cloned and Upgraded, Insert Soul Here
But what is authenticity anyway anymore, when all things in the world are duplicable, filtered, upgraded, endlessly recombinable? That is the question which, though faintly humming, is never absent in Cloned and Upgraded, Insert Soul Here by Rellyo Bambini. It is never given to the form of a thesis or a concept that you are expected to work out. Instead, […]
Metal/Review Baby and the Beats – The beat
There is something truly refreshing in the way Belgian trio, Baby and the Beats have created with The Beat; a song that is filled with the type of energised feeling that its title suggests. This is not a rhythmic piece of music, it is rhythm, it transfers me into the millions of natural and biological patterns that dictate our lives […]
Pop/Review Giuseppe Cucé – 21grammi
Not all albums play but breathe, and the 21grammi by Giuseppe Cuce sounds like it has been breathing, as the experience compressed and condensed into sound. Something made by Cuce of Catania sits in that indefinite, unstable place between confession and art, and it investigates the invisible burdens we all have to bear through loss and memory and the silent […]
ROCK/Review ENAVE – Skeletons
Some songs do not play, they explode, and ENAVEs Skeletons explodes like an orchestrated blast in the shut rooms of the soul. This is music to distract, not to ignore but to invite you to see all that you have closed behind closed doors and hope that silence would make them fade away. The song has a take hold of […]
ROCK/Review Ratlehole – Franz and Sissi: Back to Schönbrunn
What would become of the wonderful imperial couple of Austria when they appear in the modern Vienna and discover their palace full of tourists? Austrian project Ratlehole provides the answer to this question with the gloriously absurd theatrical metal, and the outcomes are as entertaining as they are surprising. The opening note of Franz and Sissi: Back to Schonbrunn are […]
ROCK/Review GLASS CABIN – emmylou
The Glass Cabin of Nashville have created something that is really substantial with emmylou, a third studio album that does not follow the route of easy consolation. This is Americana wrapped in black – bourbon-streaked, philosophical, and eager to crawl inside the moral gray areas that lurk beneath the disguise of romantic devastation. The voice of Jess Brown requires no […]
ROCK/Review Moon Construction Kit – Chemicals
At some time it becomes too much in itself, and the Chemicals, the last song of Moon Construction Kit that Lausanne-based artist Olivier Cornu created, appears to have reached that specific brink of breaking. It is not a song to listen when one is weak, rather, it is like being thrown into a room when all the feelings are screaming […]
ROCK/Review Filip Dahl – Learning to Breathe Again
The recovery process hardly comes with trumpets. It comes more frequently without noise, as air in lungs after a long submarine excursion – and Norwegian musician Filip Dahl knows it without need of explanation. Learning to Breath Again is wordless, and even the guitar has to be more articulate than the language that stutter in its attempt to convey things. […]