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It might seem like a cookie cutter dream pop album and it has been a quite slow-burning grower for me, but this should actually be seen as way more than a Cocteau Twins imitation (and not just cause it has real stamp of approval and collaboration from one of the Cocteaus - Robin Guthrie).
Before blooming in this shape, Colour Kane produced a few extraordinary demo tracks as Abricot - demos with a slightly more noticeable influence of trip-hop, which you can also feel here at times in the ... read more
Don't wake the dreamer up!!
From the onset, I was struck by the eerie resemblances with Pram, down to the balafon, however there is something more at hand.
Babadag (not sure if named after the small town in Dobruja where Sufism flourished before Romanian colonization) is actually not even your more-than-average indie/psychedelic band filled with art school kids. It's a Polish revolving-doors collective based around the trilingual female artist Ola Bilińska, and "Šulinys" ... read more
I really do love monochrome painting. Yes, it's one of the most iconic and controversial genres of modern art. When people think about "con artists" pushing "hoax" work to mystifying art critics and curators so as to get sold with million-dollar price tags to tax-evading millionaires, what they frequently picture are monochrome paintings, seen as necessarily easy to make and not something anyone in good faith would perceive as great art...
In earnest, if we can leave aside ... read more
About
Blessings and greetings! I'm an autistic trans woman (she/her), a left-leaning, progressive Muslim, an artist at heart, a fairly precarious cosmopolitan dweller, and a long-time RYM user. I have been writing poetry, essays, criticism on arts, including music. Regardless of the artistic medium, my preferences tend to go towards almost anything I might find interesting, quirky, engaging with my senses as well as intellect and, ideally, feelings too.
All shall pass, so enjoy the ride sensibly.
All shall pass, so enjoy the ride sensibly.
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