Today is a normal September day. A horizon I've seen before, bustling college life and an uneasy feeling. I reach for the phone on my shoddy nightstand, "new music released last night" I thought in a slew of unguided thought. Here is when I realize that the wave has begun. The esoteric album cover, the illuminated letters of the songs, it all feels like a grueling omen. Maruja has brought a new will to music.
Around 2023 I had discovered Maruja from their EP ... read more
Death is an odd phenomena.
It’s one of the few earthly conditions that can elope you onto a spiral staircase of dismal delirium instantaneously. By Storm is one of the few outfits who have created music that thoroughly observes this pathway. I hold a deep admiration for them.
I yearn to explore the death that has stained me one day. For now it lays deferred.
I'm starting to get it. In this originally dreary piece I've found something somewhat beautiful.
The idyllic woods. Does it call to you too?
I feel like a drug bug.
This album has the desperation I look for in contemporary indie. The whiny falsetto that buries you in a nostalgic angst. The production is whimsical to a point of questioning. Like a drug trip that doesn't fully cease your anxiety. The twinkling of the triangle and the muffled horns really add to this trip. There's a disorder looking to be examined here. A failed romance, a failed normalcy its just a compendium ... read more
The pinnacle of post punk and a hazy perfection. Bewitching one might say.
There is a time in the lives of all when ignorance is recognized. A simple misjudgment, an eye opening experience, maybe the stream of adolescence just takes you on its course. Godspeed You Black Emperor! has given me this recognition and for that I will forever hold their music dear.
Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada is a harrowing, mind shattering piece that begs the listener to heed the menial sound of cello or pluck of guitar. What I mean by this abstraction is every instrument here is ... read more


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