Tag: REVIEWS
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SLACKRR – A Light On The Horizon LP (SBÄM)
By any metric worth caring about, SLACKRR’s A Light on the Horizon carries the sound of a band that knows exactly who they are and why it matters. It’s an album that showcases how pop punk should sound in 2025, dynamic, tight, powerful, catchy, melodic, and profoundly emotional. SLACKRR have earned their place, and this…
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Wotts – i’ll see you when the game resets
The masters of sunsoaked indie pop are back! Few bands strike a balance between nostalgia and modern sound like Wotts do. Their songwriting and composing abilities never cease to amaze, and when you think they can’t sound any better, this epic Canadian duo finds its way to impress even more. “i’ll see you when the…
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Blank When Zero – Einerseits… 12″ (Keep It A Secret Records)
What happens when fury meets form, when punk grows up but refuses to behave? You get Blank When Zero’s Einerseits…, a record finely tuned in its rage and rhythm to the point it feels like simultaneous release and awakening. It’s lean, literate, loud, a record that wears its principles on its sleeve and still hits…
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“Unscripted Moments: Conversations with Propagandhi (2020–2025)” by Greg Soden
In the rare moments when a band transcends the confines of genre to become something greater, an ongoing voice of conscience, a cultural compass, a continuous provocation, it’s worth documenting that legacy with the same accuracy and respect afforded to literary or political movements. Greg Soden’s Unscripted Moments: Conversations with Propagandhi (2020–2025) rises to this…
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The Amanda Emblem Experiment – Storm In My Life
“Storm In My Life” is the latest release by The Amanda Emblem Experiment, a music outlet of Amanda Emblem, an Australian singer-songwriter based in Kandanga Creek. It’s her first piece of work this year, arriving as an adequate follow-up to “Farmtime,” a critically acclaimed extended play released last year that you should also check out…
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Kallai – The Wave
Portland quartet Kallai is back with another fine piece of sonic artistry that will unquestionably appeal to anyone who appreciates cleverly assembled and flawlessly performed music. “The Wave” is their first piece of work in 2025, arriving after the critically acclaimed self-titled debut extended play, released on all streaming platforms last year. The song serves as…
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Michellar – My Alma Latina EP
The music scene continues to grow rapidly, delivering numerous artists and bands. The best part about it is that all of them sound so good, and it has become increasingly difficult to stumble upon a bad release over the years. However, only a few manage to break the rules and shapeshift boundaries across multiple music…
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Živa Voda ft. Darko Rundek – Angel’s Breath de/re/konstrukt LP (Menart)
Anyone even remotely into listening and collecting music knows that some records disappear into time while others shape time in their absence. Angel’s Breath, the brief, shining collaboration between Milan Mladenović and Mitar Subotić Suba, recorded in Brazil in the early 1990s, is one of those untouchable artifacts. It flashed once, almost unnoticed, before vanishing…
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Maja Rivić – Drugo Sunce LP (Menart)
There are moments in the vast constellation of contemporary jazz when a distinctive voice organically emerges and conjures tremendous amounts of passion, energy, and presence rarely heard or seen on the music scene nowadays. On her debut solo album Drugo Sunce, exceptional Croatian vocalist and composer Maja Rivić inhabits the sound constructed by her impressive…
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Die Deislers – Das Ist Kein Licht 12″ (Keep It A Secret Records)
We have a couple more Keep It A Secret Records releases up in the sleeves. This record might be the most mysterious one from the batch and shines bright in its obscurity. It stands out from the crowd with its black minimalistic cover artwork that doesn’t reveal almost anything except the artist and album title.…
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“What If We Were Water” By Ricky Frost (Earth Island Books)
In What If We Were Water, Ricky Frost presents a poetic chronicle of trauma and healing, arriving like a necessary tide that will immediately resonate with the broader audience. Born from the lived experience of emotional hardship and refined through the prism of mentorship and vulnerability, this 100-page volume of poems and short prose sketches…
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Bloomfield Machine – Copium
“Copium” is the latest release by Bloomfield Machine, a music outlet of American multi-instrumentalist Brian Kassan, based in Huntington Beach, California. Arriving after “Left To Our Own Devices,” a critically acclaimed full-length album released in 2023, it’s a brand-new offering that will immediately appeal to anyone who appreciates marvelously assembled and flawlessly performed music. Consisting…
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