// The Open Door: Evanescence's gateway to greatness //

Step into the ethereal realm of Evanescence's 'The Open Door', where haunting melodies and visceral emotions intertwine to create an immersive sonic journey. Released in 2006, this highly anticipated sophomore album marked a significant evolution for the band — contrary to what many people say based mostly on favoritism towards 2003's 'Fallen' (due to its commercial impact) — showcasing a ... read more

// FLAW: Iress' flawed portrait of pain and grief //

Iress' second album, "Flaw" (2020), is a record that understands the emotional logic of doomgaze very well: it is heavy, enveloping, wounded, and consistently atmospheric, but it also knows when to soften its edges and let a melody breathe. The band does not try to reinvent the genre so much as to inhabit it with conviction, drawing from doomgaze, dark folk, and adjacent textures in a way that feels coherent. What stands ... read more

// BRUTAL PARAÍSO: preso entre o conceito e o excesso...como todo bom artista? //

Luísa Sonza chega a "Brutal Paraíso" em um momento particularmente delicado de sua imagem pública. Em 2026, a artista parece estar no auge de uma relação turbulenta com a opinião geral, algo que se tornou ainda mais evidente nas vaias que recebeu ao participar do show de Sabrina Carpenter no Lollapalooza Brasil como juno girl. Ainda assim, Luísa ... read more

Após anos tentando alcançar notoriedade global, a funkstar Anitta traz com seu oitavo álbum de estúdio "Equilibrivm" sua reinserção no mercado fonográfico brasileiro, do qual a cantora se distanciava parcialmente há tempos. A proposta é certamente ambiciosa: mesclar as duas faces da cantora, a persona de palco Anitta, e a pessoa Larissa, que atualmente encontra-se em uma fase de autoconhecimento e espiritualidade. Quanto ... read more

Eu não tenho palavras para descrever o quão horrorizado eu estou, ao ponto de nem ter energia para escrever do jeito "cosplay de jornalista" que costumo escrever para me entreter. Não tem nada de proveitoso aqui, só não dei 0 porque ao menos as bases instrumentais não são desafinadas e tem um mínimo de coerência musical e uniformidade ritmica (ainda que de forma totalmente vazia e genérica). Ainda assim, melodias ... read more

//It's Not that Deep: When Demi Lovato chose happiness//

Demi Lovato is probably not the first artist that comes to mind when you hear the phrase "it’s not that deep". Her catalog has long been defined by vulnerability and high-stakes emotional candor: self-esteem struggles, family issues, bullying, addiction, romantic disappointment, and the kind of public self-exposure that can make a pop star feel almost too honest for her own good. Demi has spent much of her career ... read more

Como sempre o efeito manada vem forte pq qualquer coisa q ela lança é instantaneamente desconsiderada por aqueles q n tem personalidade...mas fato é q a música está uma OBRA, letra profunda e complexa, produção atmosférica que te deixa imerso na energia soturna que ela busca transmitir, e a maneira como a música acumula momentum gradativamente é linda (principalmente, claro, em conjunto com os vocais da Luísa, que ... read more

[low effort quick review (that ended up not as short as I expected lol)] Decided to listen to TX2's entire discography, mainly because universally hated artists always draw my attention. I enjoy the experience of finding out if it's actually that bad, or if it's an unfair hate train (usually it is). And, even though this EP is undoubtedly pretty bad, it's not as horrendous as people make it out to be. Definitely not worth the absurdly low score of 1. I mean...are y'all ... read more

// Meet Me at the Waterfall: Xelli's invitation to her personal Island //

Xelli Island's debut EP 'Meet Me at the Waterfall' arrives like a small, secret ecosystem of sound — intimate, misty, and stubbornly specific in its intent. Lianna Vanicelli's project wears its dream-pop influences visibly, but it never disguises the fact that these songs are personal dispatches from real life, far from being fragments of dreams. The singer moved to Los Angeles with almost ... read more

Not gonna write a very long review 'cause there isn't really much to be said about this album, it simply isn't very good. With a not very dynamic blend of monotone fry screaming, cliche metalcore riffs and sprinkles of clean singing, "Nightmare" isn't really able to create an interesting enough final product to be worth listening to. The lyrics, specially, are particularly poor, often going with repetition and superficial brutality instead of putting thought into ... read more

// Sound Asleep: Evanescence's sleeper pre-debut EP //

Evanescence's 'Sound Asleep' EP arrives as an awkward footnote in a catalog that, just a few years later, would redefine a certain strain of alt-metal and goth-tinged radio rock. Coming on the heels of the shockingly coherent 'Evanescence' EP, which already carried a clear identity, atmosphere and a nascent star quality, 'Sound Asleep' had big shoes to fill — and, bluntly, it doesn’t. ... read more

// Demi: the war between charts and heart //

"Demi" is, above all else, Demi Lovato’s most unabashedly commercial record — and that quality is both its strength and its limitation. Arriving at a moment when Demi was one of the brightest young names in pop, and was managing to finally consolidate their place on the industry as a pop force, the self-titled fourth album doubles down on radio ambition: polished productions, immediate hooks, and a deliberate clarity of purpose ... read more

// Tiazinha Faz a Festa: uma festa, ou o fim dela? //

'Tiazinha Faz a Festa' (1999) é um disco que faz muito do óbvio e pouco do necessário para sobreviver ao tempo — e, ainda assim, sobreviveu o suficiente para ser lembrado como fenômeno de uma época, tendo impacto cultural inegável. Antes de falar do álbum, é preciso contextualizar a personagem: Tiazinha nasceu em 1997, quando Suzana Alves foi convidada ao "Programa ... read more

// Try This With Your Eyes Closed: a blind step into Alesana’s world //

Alesana's debut EP, "Try This With Your Eyes Closed", arrived in 2005 as the first glimpse of a band that would come to define the more theatrical side of American post‑hardcore. Formed in Raleigh, North Carolina, by brothers Shawn and Adam Milke, the group cut its teeth on local shows before venturing into the studio to capture their blend of melody and mayhem. Even at this early stage, their ... read more

Unfortunately extremely mid, just like most things Evanescence seems to be putting out since Synthesis. I expected more after the fantastic Afterlife which lit up the entire fandom's expectations. Still, K.Flay's participation can't go unnoticed, 'cause her voice adds a very interesting spice to the song that made the experience a whole less dull. Still, overall disappointing.

// Addison: An Addition you didn’t know you needed //

Addison Rae’s debut album, "Addison", arrives like a pop force nobody expected. After her rocky introduction to the music industry with the critically panned 'Obsessed', few imagined Addison would ever recover her footing — much less craft one of the most cohesive and fully realized pop debuts of recent memory. Initially dismissed as a TikTok influencer-turned-singer with no clear direction, ... read more

// Sempiternal: the eternal conflict between despair and triumph //

Bring Me the Horizon arrived at a crossroads with their fourth LP, "Sempiternal", and instead of hesitating, they charged forward to redefine what modern metalcore could sound like. From the moment the opening synths wash and distorted guitars crash into "Can You Feel My Heart", it’s clear the band meant to go bigger than ever before. Still, oddly, that first track, while iconic in its own right, ... read more

// Dancing, Drinking, Talking, Thinking: sips of UK's Soul on the dancefloor //

Rose Gray burst onto the scene in late 2020 with her debut mixtape "Dancing, Drinking, Talking, Thinking", a tightly woven seven-track journey that clocks in at just over twenty-three minutes. Born in 1996, in Muswell Hill and raised amid the vibrant club culture of London, Gray had already honed her craft through a series of singles before crystallizing her sound in this BritPop and UK-Soul ... read more

// Badlands: a dystopian oasis of teenage defiance //

Halsey’s rise began long before "Badlands": her debut single "Ghost" first appeared on SoundCloud on February of 2014, instantly going viral and drawing immediate label interest. Even more than that initial buzz, it was her online persona — posting poetry and demo snippets under the handle "se7enteenblack" on Tumblr— that cemented her as the avatar of 2010s alt-pop culture, a living embodiment ... read more

// Unbroken: A Fractured Portrait of Survival and Sellouts //

Demi Lovato's "Unbroken" (2011) exists in a liminal space between rebellion and restraint, a product of its era as much as its creator’s turbulent psyche. Fresh out of rehab, grappling with highly publicized struggles with addiction, self-harm, and the whiplash of early fame, Lovato was desperate to shed her Disney cocoon and channel her pain into art. Yet the machinery of her career — still tightly ... read more