Today, as the Mastodon hype has settled into a more breathable comfort reserved for loyal fans, we discover that metal never needed to be validated by academia, and that, just like in horror cinema, this genre doesn’t have to be elevated to be relevant.
2928 miles (4712 km in civilized measurements) is the distance separating Grace Potter’s current home, Topanga Canyon, from her native Vermont; a journey she has made several times by car and which serves as the common thread of this road movie she presents to us.
It’s not common for electronic music to be accompanied by lyrics that go beyond trivial matters, but it’s even more complicated to mix dancefloor anthems with mental health or the loss of a father.
We said goodbye in February to the review of Westside Cowboy’s previous EP with the hope of soon receiving their debut album and being led back to that unique habitat where guitar pop, indie-rock, and folk go hand in hand. Since then, the hype has continued to grow, as advance singles were released and they … Read more
In this second installment, we continue to search for those artists who, due to talent, hype, context, or simply bad luck, seemed to have the future in their hands. And, as often happens with the future, it ended up taking another path.
Six years have passed since Punisher made her the great icon of contemporary melancholy. With all this baggage comes her third work, an ambitious and complex piece.
When does a work begin? When does it end? Is the creator the only person who can give it meaning? Does a certain unconsciousness help to break down certain barriers?
This is an album about heartbreak, about painful breakups and their immense expanses, which can either create works that are excessively self-indulgent and indebted to that pain, or sensitive, subtle, and constructive works. Lordy is one of the latter. Houndmouth offers us 35 minutes in which, in that Americana shed where some keep their most … Read more
For a brief moment, it seemed they were going to be the next big band. But then, almost always without much fanfare, they stopped being the future.
Six years later, after overcoming health issues that bordered on debilitating, lineup changes, and tireless bumps in the road, the Canadians are back. Within, their first fully independent work, arrives articulated under the maxim of putting everything out there without inhibitions.