Category: Single
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“Life Had to Catch Up to the Music”: a Dark-Pop Confession by Sean Leach
His music is the aesthetic of Brooklyn clubs wrapped in black vinyl and neon light. New York dark-pop artist Sean Leach transforms intimate confessions into vivid songs that make you want to cry and dance at the same time. In his tracks, vulnerability meets theatrical chic, while moody ’80s synths sit alongside rock guitars. Today…
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Jazz, Pop, and one Perfect Hit: Hana Effron and Toby Gad as a Duo
“A woman can make a millionaire out of any billionaire,” Salvador Dalí once remarked ironically. In the music industry, the formula of the great surrealist works a little differently: a brilliant producer can elevate a talent to the status of an icon, but only if the talent has enough courage to fully open up before…
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Aim, Doubt, and Six Voices: “Your Arrows” as a New Chapter of Rusty Shackle
“Doubt is not weakness. Weakness is allowing doubt to decide for you” – this is roughly what any Clint Eastwood character would say if he knew how to formulate thoughts between shots. And if we speak about the musical expression of this idea, then it would sound just like “Your Arrows” – the new single…
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“Dance Without You”: Vella Chooses the Dance Floor Over Goodbyes
“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…
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When Love Changes Season: Sophie Tex
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…
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Troubadour of Our Fractured Times: Tom Emlyn’s “A Series of Misunderstandings”
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…
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Welcome to the Basement: Pop Gets a New Life in m0n0 jay’s ‘L- L- L-‘ (ATH Remix)
“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 –…
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“Coquihalla”: Angela Begin and the Road That Doesn’t End
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,…
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A Summer of Its Own: Steve Urbaniac’s “When You’re Here”
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.…
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Don’t Trust the Screen: LOYD from Wales and His ‘Kill The Dream’
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…