Category: Single

“I don’t want to be anyone’s property. I belong only to myself,” – the indomitable Nora in Ibsen threw in the face of society before slamming the door. Times have changed: doors now open automatically, but the sound of leaving remains the same. However, today, instead of a dramatic disappearance into the fog, we choose…

Unpleasant, sometimes icy, but inevitable and – if you look honestly – necessary. It is this thought, clothed in atmospheric dark pop, that the Toronto performer Sophie Tex offers in her debut single “Broken Promises. “Released on April 24 on the Flatcar Records label, the track puts Sophie in a row with the future of…

Once troubadours sang not so much about love as about the distance to it – about the road, dust, foreign cities and themselves, changing from verse to verse. Songs appeared from misunderstandings. From letters delivered to the wrong addressee. From promises spoken in a half-voice at the wrong moment. From a ring that leaves a…

“Real strength does not need the spotlight” – that’s roughly what Nietzsche might have said if he went to raves. When the motivational music in the gym fades out, the last visitors with pink water bottles leave, a third of the lights switch off. What remains is iron, darkness, and you. At the point –…

I’m not one of those who follow the indie scene systematically. But sometimes something finds you on its own – and it’s already hard to pretend you haven’t heard it. “Rose Up” by Angela Begin found me exactly like that. A Canadian singer-songwriter based between Montreal and Edmonton, she writes music about nature, space, temporality,…

Musician and composer Steve Urbaniac seems to know that music is the shortest path to emotions. Summer, of course, is only just warming up on the horizon, yet his track “When You’re Here” sounds like a confident entrance of summer into its rights – with a warm breeze, soft light, and a trembling sea wave.…

Briefly about how we kill our dreams today: trivially easy – with a thumb on the screen. Scroll, like, another scroll. Somewhere between others’ successes and our own postponed plans, dreams leave without slamming the door. The new single “Kill The Dream” by LOYD is a neatly framed verdict on the habit of living in…

Tyler Ellis is among those rare musicians who manage to be serious and unburdensome at the same time. His new single “Union Song” – the first from the upcoming ninth (!) album Hardwarestore, due out in June – sounds like a smart and tired person decided not to be angry, but to sing.And it works. “Union…

Oscar Wilde said, “that every time a person falls in love, he becomes a poet. No one asked what happens when that love goes away.” It seems Eliot Thompson has found out where that place is, but decided not to write a poem, but to do something better – to record a banger. “Blue-gray eyes”…

There’s a version of me that appears exclusively in front of the bathroom mirror – between seven and a quarter past seven in the morning. That version has no doubts. She straightens the shirt collar with a confidence the rest of the day never justifies. I don’t know where she comes from. But I know…