Reviews

Sean MacLeod has created something quite special with his track “Cool Charisma,” one that is able to be simultaneously refreshingly contemporary and nostalgic. This new record is a clear indication that the former Cisco frontman has not lost his way in writing catchy pop tunes and this new release shows...

It is immediately striking, near disarmingly self-aware, about the new song by Polish electronic artist Neodym, the song titled INSTA. Many dance songs get you lost in the rhythm and forget the world momentarily, though this song does it in a more advanced manner. It gives you a reason to...

With a song that undergoes a complete change of heartbreak into heartbreak power, Liverpool RISE have provided something truly refreshing with Lost For Words. This four-member ensemble has the correct formula on how to create melodic rock that strikes hard but is also accessible enough to catch on in an...

It is rather quiet and breathtaking how the little things that build up until a house becomes a real home occur in small groupings, moments that you never really notice are building your life until you take a moment to look and see. That is what Junifer manages to capture...

The outcome of the experience of San Sebastian in his Swedish Idol has produced something truly interesting. Imaginary Lover is a bold step by the Stockholm artist as it incorporates a modern contemporary electronic pop and unexpectedly insightful comment upon contemporary relationships, both natural and artificial. What at once impresses...

Something very comforting about “Wander Still” – almost as though you have found a compass exactly when you thought you are going in circles. Being the title song on the new album of Ulrich Jannert, it eschews precisely what he does so well, in turning the most existential questions of...

Tom Minor has given us something wonderfully subversive with bring back the good ol boys – a song which actually dances and at the same time hits us upside down with its spot-on critique of our collective amnesia in the face of darker patterns in history. Protest music camouflaged as...

It is one thing to see a person that you had a connection with turn cold and Julia Kate has managed to nail that pain down in the song be nice princess. Here the Los Angeles singer-songwriter has presented something truly refreshing, a pop song, and one that is fun...

It is deeply touching to see an artist create out of pure authenticity, such as when one has been carrying a heavy load, but you can see the moment they put the heavy burden down and you can see the relief on their face. The song of I Don’t Need...

It is especially difficult to make a good opening statement–it is like being backstage and having your heart beat out of you, and knowing that the moment you step in the light, everything will be different. On Opening Song by CAR287, they have taken that challenge with a lot of...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Something really likeable about the Radar by KDAS Fool is that it gets in your head at the first beat. The song provides this powerful, nodding groove that has a strong and steady rhythm that simply drags you in and like an adhesive does not releases you. It is the...

This is the kind of infectious and swaggering nature of belly Jelly by Malak Shalom, which makes you hooked by the first bar. The song wins you immediately with this head-nodding groove that is completely killer- the one that makes you go back to the replay button before it is...

The unrefined adrenaline of CBF Hollywood in Money 2 Get just catches hold of you. The Tarpon Springs native provides a hustlers anthem with that kind of believability that only comes with actually being one- twenty years of grinding in the studio, stacking tracks, loss and frustration all given to...