Category: Single
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Loving Yourself Without Anyone Else’s Approval: CATLEA’s “Someone’s Got To”
Songs rarely appear right away. Some are written in an evening, others require time, pauses, and returns, until they finally coincide with what a person truly feels. With “Someone’s Got To”, CATLEA had it happen exactly like that. Perhaps that is why it sounds very sincere. “When I originally wrote the song,” CATLEA confessed, “it…
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Retro-Inspired and Vocally Refined: Ameliah Jayne’s “River”
“A broken heart is a wonderful leash, if you know which way to lead your ex,” – one of the greats would surely have said this, finishing their cold coffee. After all, romantic disappointment turned long ago from a personal tragedy into one of the most profitable storylines of the 21st century. But while some…
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Love Doesn’t Break Alone: JB Elwood with His New Single “Who We Are”
“Rarely is only one besieger guilty of the destruction of a common castle – the cracks are laid together.” A breakup is rarely an explosion. More often, it is the slow crumbling of plaster, behind which it is easier to hide than to admit one’s own share of the blame. But what happens when the…
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Stand Tall and Keep Going: Rusty Shackle on Resilience, Friendship, and Hope
Sometimes all you need in a difficult moment is someone’s voice quietly saying, “You’ll make it.” There are days when you hold on thanks to inner strength and the presence of someone who believes in you. Usually, you think about this later – when you surface from routine, get through it as best you can…
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Church Organ and a Monster of Emotion: ADERYN and Her “Please”
“It’s built into human nature to love without reciprocation – to pour ourselves into deities or people that don’t give us clear answers.” In this thought by Lisa Martin lies a paradox familiar to anyone who has ever got stuck in the limbo of their own feelings. Romantic vulnerability is a dangerous thing, but damn…
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The Death of Bureaucracy, or Paradise Without a Schedule: Eilir Pierce’s “Do-List”
They say that in the afterlife, we are awaited either by absolute nothingness or by infinite light. But perhaps true bliss is the absence of obligations. A world where no one demands that you file a tax return, reply to accumulated chats, or iron a shirt for tomorrow. Paradise is a place where earthly bustle…
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What if the World is an Aquarium? Dean Denmark’s New Single Searches for an Answer
“If reality is a simulation, then music is the only systemic error that the programmers left for us on purpose, so that we wouldn’t go mad from the predictability of the code.” This thought, wandering through the corridors of contemporary philosophy, in my view precisely captures the essence of why we keep searching for answers…
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Muscular Rock with a Heart: Free Under Fire Release “Before I Lose It All”
Let’s imagine, for a moment, a garage on the outskirts of a small provincial Canadian town – where instead of a car there stands a drum kit, and on the walls hang posters of bands known only in narrow circles. It seems to me that it’s in garages like these that a sound is born…
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A Pop Fairy Tale with a Crack: Bailey Grey and Her “Unfortunately”
Many screenwriters, tired of the predictability of classic fairy tales, ask themselves: what if you switch the roles – make the dragon kind, and the princess the savior? Bailey Grey asked herself a question that seems simpler at first glance, but much more personal: what if Cinderella and Prince Charming had been best friends since…
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“Heels” by LJ and The Ray Band – an Official License to Be Way too Attractive
“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world,” Marilyn Monroe once dropped, perfectly understanding the power of visual manifestos. But what if conquering the world feels like too much effort, while taking over the dance floor is a vital necessity? The answer lies not in the height of the stiletto, but…