Category: Album

They say that in the Universe nothing disappears without a trace – matter only chaotically dissipates in time and space, taking on new, sometimes bizarre forms. We consist of atoms of long-extinguished stars, and our thoughts – of echoes of random encounters and fragments of old melodies. But sometimes entropic noise crystallizes into something frighteningly…

There are emotions and memories that never find words. They remain living on the outskirts of consciousness – as a light shadow, an indistinct echo, an elusive feeling for which a form has not yet been invented. It is precisely this wordless sphere that Alex Solely – a neoclassical composer and pianist – explores in…

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”. This is how Leonard Cohen once subtly formulated the main wisdom of North American poetry: true beauty is rarely monolithic. It manifests itself where the familiar world develops a crack. Geography is made up of a set of coordinates on a map, but…

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…

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…

I admit without shame: I have a weakness for debuts. There is always a unique, barely perceptible aroma of adventurism and slight jitters in them, when an artist first steps up to the footlights without the protective armor of past achievements and platinum statuses. It is an exciting moment of absolute sincerity, when the stakes…

“Every debut holds within itself the grace of incompleteness: it is the moment when the artist first opens the door to his workshop but has not yet turned on the overhead light,” Walter Benjamin once remarked. Anthony Do, performing under the pseudonym Dotom, is a graduate of the prestigious Roc Nation school of music, majoring…

“Space is not that far away. It’s only an hour’s drive if your car can go straight up,” British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle once joked. But if we set aside earthly mechanics, music, in my view, has handled this route faster than any shuttle. It is capable of traversing light-years in a fraction of a second,…

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, there will be peace,” Jimi Hendrix once said, reminding us that music knows how to negotiate where diplomats simply throw up their hands. In a world that has grown quite tired of the roar of news and endless stress, silence has turned into a luxury,…

“You don’t need to look far into our band’s history to know that we’ve always made an effort to use music to bring people together to support causes we believe in and make our small corner of the world a little nicer than we found it.” In these words from Loversteeth vocalist Brandon McCabe, there’s…