As though a glitter ball mesmerizes one from above, Fonteray’s “Green Viridian” is the perfect track one can lift their head towards, get lost in, and escape whatever unease we might have found ourselves in. “Green Viridian” was created as part of a songwriting challenge that this Australian artist was doing with some friends during … Read more
Godrays and Summersun “Transients” is something else, a power trip of electro and dance ambience giving a holy baptism. If you’ve ever been to a forest social, you know the vibe of this track – it’s a boppy and misty experience filled with god rays and winter winds. The track is the feeling you get … Read more
Straying for what we normally share, Steven van Betten’s “I Didn’t Mean To Do That” is a more folk-leaning track with a moving message. It’s a song with a strong concept backing it. Multi-colored examples of human mistakes roll off the artist’s tongue punctuated by the refrain ‘I didn’t mean to do that.’ It is, … Read more
Spectral Enhancements MorMor gives the long fast road a voice with “Chasing Ghosts” — a heavy, driving track that bursts past the speed limit. There is a great drive to this track, and a sense of acceleration; like a bike on a long track it goes from a controlled and patient pace into an ear-popping … Read more
This band has earned, quite naturally, a level of trust from me. I see the name Fold pop up, and I just trust that after clicking play, I will meet a song that has the power to make me think. A lot of songs focus on individualistic lives that become an example that one may … Read more
I’m in love. At first, I wanted to write about charlø’s “numb” because I thought it had that sort of Elohim-like catchiness to it. My goodness, have I been further blown away by this song. Firstly, I tend to resonate with characters and expressions that are of a light and dark nature. “numb” is just … Read more
Clearing one’s mind and allowing it to wander in other worlds is the intended result of Diskay’s “Wide illusion.” I guess humans use a plethora of varying causes, with the hopes of the very same result. ‘Reality’ always is what it is, moment after moment, but sometimes it can be a little more elevated than … Read more
Meet Me Halfway merci, mercy doesn’t just tell us the truth but injects it with pulsing pop rhetoric and delightful sweeps. “Into You” starts like a slow anthem, but just like its honest, confessional title, the track takes a hard left when it dives into pulsing alt-pop and boy do I love that kick-in. Running … Read more
Summer To Winter, You and Me MorMor gives a bedroom pop track that throws back to the 2000s and changes our wintery minds into summer bliss. “Seasons Change” sounds as though it’s from a different time, as though I had heard it in high school, forgot about it, and suddenly rediscovered it with the world … Read more
Multichannel Distortion ALASKALASKA gives quiet reflection a synth-pop tv static and the sound is immense. Watching television sometimes becomes a strange thing, you disappear into it, not actually taking in anything at all and just floating in the radio waves. “TV Dinners” is a hypnotic representation of that floating – the slow dissolution into a … Read more