Author: Helena Lynch
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Half-Sleep, Mirrors, Trick of Light: Jessie Altman in “Sleepwalking”
Every year in spring I watch how new names appear on the musical Olympus, tremulously, like the first snowdrops in the forest breaking through the thickness of habitual radio noise. But if most of these “flowers” wither faster than their first tour ends, then Jessie Altman definitely plans to stay for a long time. Her…
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STARFLAKE With New Single “I Would Fuck Myself” – Not Audacity, But a Form of Self‑Respect
Sometimes in the morning a strange thing happens to me – I look in the mirror and don’t hurry to avert my gaze. The hair is not perfect, the coffee overflows over the edge, but instead of the usual “what a look” suddenly something quiet and a little surprised: “Not bad. Really, not bad at…
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An Abandoned Water Park as a Metaphor: The New Song by Exsonvaldes
In their previous work, the trio Exsonvaldes often displayed an intellectual side shaped by their academic backgrounds: Simon Beaudoux (vocals and guitar) holds a master’s degree in artificial intelligence; Antoine Bernard (guitar, keyboards) graduated in sound engineering from the Louis Lumière school; and Martin Chourrout (drums) studied at École Polytechnique. In their new song “Abandoned…
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25 Years Later: Milan Suta and His “Which Way Do I Go”
Many people have something like this – an idea you don’t know what to do with. A novel draft stuck at the third chapter. A photograph that never made it out of the film. A melody spinning in your head but never finding a way out. Milan Suta, an independent Czech producer and synthesist, kept…
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Seafret and James Morrison Unite on “Driftwood”
Stepping away from the corporate machine, Seafret are accountable to no one but themselves. “We’ve always rebelled against that,” Jack insists. “As soon as we stepped out of that pressure zone, we started writing songs because no one was telling us that we had to write songs.” And now the duo Seafret are pleased to…
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A Stare That Hits Hard: “Wendigo’s music should feel like a Kubrick stare” – and They Mean It
In the musical kaleidoscope of modern London, it’s easy to get lost – but Wendigo are not the kind of guys who blend into the background. The alternative trio from the British capital are masters of emotionally charged, live-driven rock. They describe their style as “di-gaze” – a cocktail of dense sound, sincerity, and that…
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Against Silence: “We Didn’t Survive to Be Quiet” by Neo Brightwell
There is a question that has been haunting me for a long time – and has sounded especially loud in the last decade: what happens to a person when a machine starts thinking for them? Not in the sense of arithmetic – in the sense of who to be, what to love, what to believe…
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The Cinematic Calm of New Wolves’ “Boiling Up”
New Wolves – a trio from Swansea, United Kingdom, create indie-electronic music with a guitar sense of space and a producer’s love for unusual details. Their songs often start with something familiar and then slightly change direction: warm hooks, flashes of broken synthesizer, low harmonies, and a cinematic drift. The second single of this year, “Boiling…
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Without a Rigid Concept: yetep’s Debut Album “ÿ”
There are careers that start with a strategy. For yetep – a producer and DJ from Seoul who moved to Los Angeles – everything turned out differently: mixes on SoundCloud, tracks on Tumblr without genre labels. People recognized something of their own in this and were drawn in. This is important to understand when listening…
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A Subtle Commentary on Our Time in “Like I Was Never Mine”
Built on a cinematic atmosphere, the song “Like I Was Never Mine” by Danish singer and songwriter Marie Fjeldsted unfolds as a poetic reflection on quietly crossed boundaries and slowly collapsing foundations. The song can be heard as the voice of a woman in a personal crisis – or as the voice of Mother Earth…
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