Author: Helena Lynch
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Italy Went to Amsterdam: Corner in Bloom and their “Tiny Apartment”
Italian music knows how to surprise and seduce. However, the Italian indie-pop project Corner in Bloom decided to go further. I listen to their new album “Tiny Apartment” and there is a feeling that Italy packed a suitcase, got on a bicycle and went to Amsterdam – and then forgot where it left the keys…
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Eliott Thompson – “Blue-gray Eyes”: Melancholy Disguised as Pop Rock
Oscar Wilde said, “that every time a person falls in love, he becomes a poet. No one asked what happens when that love goes away.” It seems Eliot Thompson has found out where that place is, but decided not to write a poem, but to do something better – to record a banger. “Blue-gray eyes”…
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Korea Meets Brazil: HEYOON Drops the Club Hit “swipe”
Korean pop star HEYOON delivers a burst of energy with her new single “swipe” – an explosive collaboration with Brazilian rising star Lu Garcia. It’s a club-ready anthem built to ignite dance floors and take over Brazil’s playlists – a country where HEYOON’s fanbase keeps growing with every release. HEYOON not only performs but also co-wrote and co-produced “swipe”, reaffirming her…
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Alternative with a Taste of Drama: “Love Takes It All” by Noon
If you love when music tears your heart in two and leaves the aftertaste of cinematic darkness, “Love Takes It All” is the song for you. The Swiss duo Noon distills the very essence of alternative rock – passion, anger, and nostalgia – weaving them into a story of destructive love that you just can’t…
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Anti-Technique and Seduction: the Recipe for the Enchanting “cherry spice” by moonvine
There’s a version of me that appears exclusively in front of the bathroom mirror – between seven and a quarter past seven in the morning. That version has no doubts. She straightens the shirt collar with a confidence the rest of the day never justifies. I don’t know where she comes from. But I know…
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Controlled Fire: “Rome”, the New Single by Brook Fox
“Rome” is the new single by Brook Fox, an indie rock commentary on the current state of the world. A bold and defiant track about systemic imbalance – elites, billionaires, and the feeling that reality is gradually turning into a controlled fire, where the “burning” is no longer metaphorical but driven by inertia. At the…
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Life Under the Weight of Loss: “Death Of A Friend” Without Illusions
For the members of The Active Set, death in recent years has ceased to be an abstraction and has become a routine backdrop of existence: the passing of parents, friends, and colleagues occurs with such frequency that it is now perceived as a distorted norm, bordering on the absurd. The band directly captures this state…
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“The Stories That You Weave” by Victims of the New Math: The Dialect of the Independent Scene
A classic story: true freedom in music begins where looking back at others’ expectations ends. The longer an artist stays in their own orbit, the clearer their own language sounds. It was with these thoughts that I turned on the new album by a musician our readers should get to know. Thomas Young, the one-man…
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Camp in the Gym: “L.L.L.” by m0n0 jay Blows Up Fitness Culture
A strange place, the gym. It always has too many mirrors and too little sincerity: every involuntary glance into them is either control, comparison, or an attempt to convince yourself you’ve become better. Fitness culture tries to sell the concept of “before” and “after,” deficit and discipline, the body as an unfinished project. But what…
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Heavier, Darker, More Honest: Matthew Shadley Band and the New Album “The Great Divide”
“Nothing behind, everything ahead, as always happens on the road,” wrote Jack Kerouac. And, it seems, such an impulse of movement through uncertainty becomes the nerve of the new album “The Great Divide” by Matthew Shadley Band. I first became acquainted with the band’s work while working on a review of the album “Shaka” (May…
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