When Lorde released Pure Heroine in 2013, listeners were awestruck by the then-unknown 16-year-old’s vocal talent, unique arrangements, and ability to construct a set of songs woven together by threads of several different pockets of pop. Four years later, Lorde released one of the year’s most anticipated...
2017 is Shannen Moser’s year. In a mere six months, the Philadelphia-based folk musician released her debut album, Oh, My Heart, and soon supported acts like Pinegrove and Sorority Noise. With another East Coast tour in the works and an acoustic video series (one entry of which is viewable below) being...
Alex Luciano laments this during the closing track of Diet Cig’s debut full length album, Swear I’m Good at This, released last Friday, the petite pop-punk powerhouse not shying away from her inner struggle to embrace sensitivity and femininity — traits that remain difficult to come by in that...
The members of Goddamnit are anything but newcomers, something profoundly clear through the complexity of sophomore album, I’ll Never Be Okay, I’ll Never Be the Same. Their familiar, yet original guitar-driven sound — with notes of ’90s post-hardcore sprinkled throughout — serves as a clear...
If there’s a line between passion and tranquility, Julie Byrne walks it without missing a step. Her latest, an LP titled Not Even Happiness, is songwriting at its most pure, the tracklist reading like a poem; the lyrics like a lullaby. And for an occasional addition of orchestral strings and percussion,...
