Author: Helena Lynch
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Unfiltered and Unfolding: Lily Vakili’s “Heart’s Afire”
Lily Vakili’s songs are defined by personal lyricism and intimate, observational writing. Unconventional harmonies, complex chords, open guitar tunings, and jazz-inflected modulations – “Heart’s Afire” sounds exactly like this. The voice functions as an instrument: clear, flexible, with sharp leaps and a conversational phrasing. Around it – guitar, piano, bass, and plenty of space, where…
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A Summer of Its Own: Steve Urbaniac’s “When You’re Here”
Musician and composer Steve Urbaniac seems to know that music is the shortest path to emotions. Summer, of course, is only just warming up on the horizon, yet his track “When You’re Here” sounds like a confident entrance of summer into its rights – with a warm breeze, soft light, and a trembling sea wave.…
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Don’t Trust the Screen: LOYD from Wales and His ‘Kill The Dream’
Briefly about how we kill our dreams today: trivially easy – with a thumb on the screen. Scroll, like, another scroll. Somewhere between others’ successes and our own postponed plans, dreams leave without slamming the door. The new single “Kill The Dream” by LOYD is a neatly framed verdict on the habit of living in…
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Outsideness and “…From What?”: Precision Without a Formula
Leafing through old music magazines, I came across a story about Miles Davis. Once he said to a young musician: “Don’t play what is. Play what isn’t.” The musician got confused, fell silent, and then asked: “But how do I play what isn’t?” Miles shrugged: “Exactly.” That answer is a precise definition of creativity: it…
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Marbled Vinyl, Live Energy and a Touch of Idaho Magic: AKA BELLE Return with a Dazzling Double Album
“All time is now, and now is all you have.”It is hard to come up with a better motto for a band that records albums as if they were the last. AKA BELLE from Boise, Idaho, are known and popular in the Pacific Northwest region. The band has 5 members. At the beginning they were…
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Jada Di’Larosa: Ten Faces of Love – “To Love Is To Perform”
“The most difficult role is to be oneself.” A quote from the novel The Whole World Is a Theatre by William Somerset Maugham, in my opinion, most precisely describes the album “To Love Is To Perform” by Jada Di’Larosa. In her world, the stage does not end with the last number – it becomes quieter, more intimate.New Orleans –…
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little image Drop Dark and Emotional New Single “THE REAPER”
Texas rock trio little image have released their new single “THE REAPER” alongside its music video. The track feels like a dark meditation on the fear of abandonment – deeply human, filled with grief, pain, loss, and the quiet weight of forgiveness. The video carries the same depth. While touring the UK, the band discovered…
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“Union Song” – a Quiet Response to Late Capitalism from Tyler Ellis
Tyler Ellis is among those rare musicians who manage to be serious and unburdensome at the same time. His new single “Union Song” – the first from the upcoming ninth (!) album Hardwarestore, due out in June – sounds like a smart and tired person decided not to be angry, but to sing.And it works. “Union…
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“Danse avec le tonnerre” – Sound, Space, and the Internal Dramaturgy of Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux
On the night of July 24, 2023, at four in the morning, lightning struck the windowsill centimeters from the feet of Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux – at that moment he was working in the studio. He had never seen it so close before. Anyone else would have jumped back, closed the shutters, and gone to sleep.…
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The Album Of The Year Is Here. seaboi Knows What You’re Afraid To Admit – And Named It “twinkmaxxing”
The internet has long been doing what literature once did: creating language for things that previously had none. The LGBTQ+ community, in this sense, works with doubled intensity: it invents words for states, experiences, and archetypes that existed for decades without names. Some of these words live in memes and dissolve within a week. Others…
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