Ever since his watershed debut Rodeo, every subsequent Travis Scott release has become a big cultural moment, music that defines the conversations around hip-hop and sets the stage for mainstream expectations the entire year. It’s easy to see why: he features all sorts of different mainstream names from Kendrick Lamar on Birds in the Trap Sing Mcknight’s Goosebumps to John Mayer and Don Toliver on the ASTROWORLD highlight CAN’T SAY; his dark and nocturnal take on trap makes ... read more
TURQUOISEDEATH has been making music for some years now, but the U.K breakcore artist is only now unveiling his full debut. Releasing a handful of EP’s and singles before the growth of guessabelle from the EP of the same name and brisk future garage single hello? boosted his prominence to new heights, TURQUOISEDEATH’s music sits squarely in the world of breakcore and atmospheric drum and bass while using samples of shoegaze, glitch pop and other alternative genres to give his breaks ... read more
Right from the start, The Loveliest Time places itself as Carly Rae Jepsen’s strangest album. Far from the anthemic synthpop she usually kicks her albums off with, Anything to Be With You is a dry, playful sunshine pop cut, a honking baritone saxophone and bouncy drum groove opening the album with a lighter atmosphere than ever before. It’s a strange but wonderful way to be introduced to her latest collection of outtakes and B-sides that are much stranger than her offerings from ... read more
George Clanton’s music is at once 80’s stadium pop and nostalgic vaporwave, his position as an innovator within the independent electronic space coexisting with his music’s innate desire to call back to the music of his youth. There are times he sways heavily towards one direction - his work as ESPRIT 空想 and Mirror Kisses are fully submerged in chillwave, while his 2020 collaboration with 311 frontman Nick Hexum lives in the more traditional synthpop and trip hop realm - ... read more
If you’ve ever spent an extended amount of time out in the country, you’ll know the distinct difference between how it feels at sunrise and after sunset. Early in the morning, when the sun is drifting just enough above the horizon to reveal the dew left atop the pastures and make the wheat sparkle in the wind, there’s an unspoken sense of safety and comfort in it all; when you can hear and see all the life moving around you, it’s hard to feel anything but warmth. ... read more




