Category: Pop Music
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EMAROSA: “Sting” album Review – modern Pop-Soda Michael Jackson
This is Emarosa: a glittery zeitgeist of ’80s synth-wave roaming the halls of nostalgia. If you think Scotts’ Jackson-inspired Yow! on breezy opener Preach is not a stalwart sign that you’ve traversed into the ’80s, then I don’t know what else to tell you. I thought the dreamy Peach Club in 2019 took the biscuit…
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Caroline Rose: “The Art of Forgetting ” Album Review – Caroline embraces her dark side
From the depths of ethereal indie-folk, The Art of Forgetting sees Caroline Rose is at her own most introspective and her most honest. The art of evolving artistry comes with the trope as a musician. To stay ever-present in music, artists strive forward with that desire looking for the next and new. With Caroline, it…
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100 gecs: “10,000 gecs” Album Review – a sheer overload of glitchy pop
No, this isn’t your Spotify having a hissy-fit. This is just 100 gecs letting it all out. Sometimes music doesn’t need probable cause to exist in our music libraries, sometimes it doesn’t need a reason as to why it is the way it is. And sometimes, we need a soundtrack for the Internet. You needn’t…
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Caroline Polachek: “Desire, I Want To Turn Into You” album review – Welcome to Caroline’s Island..
This week, sees the return of Caroline Polachek. A space-pop odyssey of unchecked mirages and a pining for those we lost. Less so a pining, mind and but a desire. A desire can be volatile, excruciating, wonderful, and cruel—but above all, it keeps us going. Despite the consequences we find ourselves in it. Caroline, a…
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Billy Nomates: “CACTI” album review – surviving it all with weird organs and upright pianos
A dark cloud hangs over Nomates’ new CACTI as her introspective thoughts seep out onto a lurid colour of distaste and melancholic swagger. A character once-manifested Billy Nomates (real name Tor Maries) has been delivering moody material since her self-titled debut in 2020. While her first took swings at our lives’ social expectations, her follow-up…
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