Grenoz

COME CLOSER is the debut of TOMORA, a supergroup between Indie-Pop’s AURORA and Tom Rowlands of Electronic duo The Chemical Brothers. My familiarity with both artists is very sparce. I’ve been knowing of AURORA for a bit now, I’m generally familiar with her style but I’d be lying if I said I ever actually listened to her. And I’ve only known The Chemical Brothers as a name, much less their sound. So yeah, I really didn’t have any real expectations for what ... read more

One of my favourite things about seeing groups go solo is seeing the freaky shit the members go off and do now that they’re free to do what they want. The Beatles, 1D, BTS, you see it happen with all the big names, and LOONA has been no different. In particular Yves has been the one I’m most intrigued by, given she’s pretty solidly the breakout star of the group, and the one most actively releasing music, with this EP of hers, NAIL, being her most recent release.

And for this ... read more

Hades is Melanie Martinez’ latest album. Melanie is an artist I’ve been admittedly very averse to. Even before I was familiar with her music and the stigma around it, I was already vaguely aware of status as a controversial figure, and that mixed with my knowledge or her deranged, to put it lightly, fandom just turned me off of her for a while. But I saw this was an upcoming release, so I decided to finally bite the bullet and give her a shot.

This is such a /weird/ album. Not in ... read more

You can’t cry to Frank Ocean and IGOR and then be transphobic, that’s not how this works.