Author: Helena Lynch
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Church Organ and a Monster of Emotion: ADERYN and Her “Please”
“It’s built into human nature to love without reciprocation – to pour ourselves into deities or people that don’t give us clear answers.” In this thought by Lisa Martin lies a paradox familiar to anyone who has ever got stuck in the limbo of their own feelings. Romantic vulnerability is a dangerous thing, but damn…
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The Death of Bureaucracy, or Paradise Without a Schedule: Eilir Pierce’s “Do-List”
They say that in the afterlife, we are awaited either by absolute nothingness or by infinite light. But perhaps true bliss is the absence of obligations. A world where no one demands that you file a tax return, reply to accumulated chats, or iron a shirt for tomorrow. Paradise is a place where earthly bustle…
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A Confession in Two Acts: “The Cost of Light & Everything I Couldn’t Say” by V★SILVER
Freddie Mercury once said that music shouldn’t be divided into rock and non-rock, but into “pop” and “non-pop” – and that the second begins where the artist cannot live otherwise, where music becomes air rather than decoration. This thought seems like a random quote from an old interview, until you come across an album that…
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What if the World is an Aquarium? Dean Denmark’s New Single Searches for an Answer
“If reality is a simulation, then music is the only systemic error that the programmers left for us on purpose, so that we wouldn’t go mad from the predictability of the code.” This thought, wandering through the corridors of contemporary philosophy, in my view precisely captures the essence of why we keep searching for answers…
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“You’re Never Really, Truly Alone” – the Idea Driving Free Under Fire Forward
How does modern rock sound that is not afraid to look back at the classics, but at the same time confidently blazes its trail into the future? Ask Free Under Fire – the guys from the Canadian town of Ajax, who manage to combine the drive of alternative rock with warming melodiousness. In the breaks…
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Muscular Rock with a Heart: Free Under Fire Release “Before I Lose It All”
Let’s imagine, for a moment, a garage on the outskirts of a small provincial Canadian town – where instead of a car there stands a drum kit, and on the walls hang posters of bands known only in narrow circles. It seems to me that it’s in garages like these that a sound is born…
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DIVKA’s folk fatale: Where Ancient Songs Rise with Fierce Female Power
For centuries, the inner world of a woman remained on the periphery of grand history, yet it continued to live – in embroidery patterns, in lullabies, in folk songs passed from mouth to mouth as the only available form of memory. Joy, desire, anger, longing for freedom – all of this rarely received the right…
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A Pop Fairy Tale with a Crack: Bailey Grey and Her “Unfortunately”
Many screenwriters, tired of the predictability of classic fairy tales, ask themselves: what if you switch the roles – make the dragon kind, and the princess the savior? Bailey Grey asked herself a question that seems simpler at first glance, but much more personal: what if Cinderella and Prince Charming had been best friends since…
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“Basketball was the training ground, music was the mission”: Jon Kabongo on Loss, Faith and New Beginnings
Once, he used to step onto the basketball court. Now he steps up to the microphone – and with the same stubborn drive with which he once fought for the ball, he now fights for a line, for a beat, for the right to say: “This is mine.” Jon Kabongo traded his familiar city for…
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“Heels” by LJ and The Ray Band – an Official License to Be Way too Attractive
“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world,” Marilyn Monroe once dropped, perfectly understanding the power of visual manifestos. But what if conquering the world feels like too much effort, while taking over the dance floor is a vital necessity? The answer lies not in the height of the stiletto, but…
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