Category: Album

“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…

There are things that many people love secretly. Not because they are ashamed – but because their surroundings are convinced that, for example, loving classical music and being passionate about anime looks ridiculous. Mozart or Pokémon. Chopin or Naruto. The concert hall or the anime screen. But does an unspoken law exist that forbids these…

“Who looks outward dreams; who looks inward awakens.” – Carl Gustav Jung. More often than not, awakening appears awkward-a painful recognition of oneself in what one has long avoided. This is how Martha Elizabeth Miller’s album “What Lies Within” begins-and how it ends. Twelve songs form a spiral of transformation and an intimate conversation with the self.…

Dear readers, I have a proposal for you that is hard to refuse: to attend the FIFA World Cup without leaDear readers, I have a proposal for you that is hard to refuse: to attend the FIFA World Cup without getting up from the couch, without buying expensive tickets, and without subscribing to yet another…

In families scattered across countries, time is arranged differently. Memories of past years do not disappear – they live in the same room as the present, sit at the same table, and sometimes speak in different voices. Tomas Rosas knows this firsthand: warm Latin American melodies, Venezuela at the distance of a phone call. For…

One guitar, eight tracks, four continents – what do they have in common, many will think. I think Tomas Rodriguez, a guitarist from Brooklyn, does not think about this. Because when he takes the guitar in his hands, the music smoothly moves through the cyclical patterns of the Mandinka kora, the earthy grooves of Afro-Peruvian…

Fire doesn’t warn. It appears – and takes what it wants. That’s exactly how, without preamble, the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles began and, by an irony of fate, set in motion a chain of events that ultimately became an album.  Jim Paulos, known under the pseudonym James Beastly, was following the news from…

There’s something irrational about dance music. When the bass hits at exactly the right moment, and a stranger next to you smiles at you for no reason, when you feel that you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Sporty O, apparently, is familiar with such a secret formula – and on the recently…

«Art is not a mirror that reflects the world. It is a hammer with which it is forged,» Brecht said about theatre. And Anton Donovan, it seems, took it literally. I listened to his new album “Never Enough” late at night – and by the third track I was already staring at the ceiling. Of…

While some discuss mortgages and the square footage of the kitchen, others discover that their main capital is a playlist of nighttime demos and personal notes in the phone. It seems that it was exactly from there that “late introduction” arose – an independent debut album by Danish alternative pop/R&B singer NAYAH. NAYAH’s story is…