Category: Album

Winter in Los Angeles is, to be honest, conditional. January there smells not of snow, but of dust from highways and overroasted coffee. The city lives in a mode of eternal rehearsal – as if everything is still ahead and the main stage is only being built. In such an atmosphere, voices that don’t try…

A rare and fascinating bird has flown into our “net.”EP “In My Rearview” is by Dani LaCour – a songwriter and singer from Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. This release wasn’t made by someone basking in fan attention, but by a woman and mother who’s taken a few hard hits and learned to choose herself again. The record…

“I’d probably say my songwriting ranges from dreamy poetry to rather banal ‘heart-rhymes-with-pain’ lyrics,” Katrine Schmidt smiles, talking about her new album “Wearing My Heart On My Sleeve” the release of which is scheduled for February 13. Usually I start reviews with some kind of metaphor, but this time there was no need for it…

Have you ever paid attention to the shade of the moon between three and four o’clock at night — the light of street lamps goes out, and dawn hasn’t begun yet. So at this time of day it acquires a special shade of blue. And you know who knows this hour firsthand? A singer who…

“It’s really important to venture in all sorts of new directions, but you should always go back to see where you came from – so that you can forge a path to where you’re going,” says Julian Taylor. I do not start this article with this quote by accident – ahead is a conversation about…

In America, there are small towns where the radio catches only two stations – country and sermons. By evening, the sky there becomes boundless, and the road to the next settlement stretches through silence, leaving time and asphalt nearby. Admit it, in such moments music is especially needed – warm, close, one’s own. And it…

New Yorkers joke that: “If you want to see the real city – come in the first week of January”. After the stormy meeting of the New Year, the noisy megapolis suddenly takes a pause. The streets of Manhattan seem like decorations for a film about an abandoned planet. The wind chases skeletons of thrown-out…

After all, there is some benefit from the COVID era despite all its unpleasantness – and the album reviewed here ultimately proves its existence. The forced inactivity made it possible to focus on new material. The quarantine years turned everyone into anthropologists of their own everyday life. We studied cracks on the ceiling, counted how…

Many have surely received a message from a male or female friend with the phrase: “Come over in the evening, I’ll set the table.” You throw off your jacket in the hallway, settle on a stool in the kitchen, and instead of the boring “so, how’s work?” a heart-to-heart conversation begins – the very kind…

If you’ve been avoiding Indian classical music until now, considering it something too complex, the debut “Bula!” from the High Tide project is the perfect entry ticket. In India, music has never been ordinary entertainment. In its classical tradition, sound is considered sacred, capable of changing the state of the soul and even controlling the…