Top 20 Songs of the Year 2025
Let’s face it choosing just 20 songs to sum up our year of music listening is pretty ridiculous, not only in the context of EVERYTHING that was released but also…
Top 20 Albums of the Year 2025
This year’s album list (unranked) isn’t about one dominant style or one “scene.” It’s an array of contrasts, often between despair and hope, or the sacred and the profane. As…
Austra turns heartbreak into ferocity on “Chin Up Buttercup“
Calling Chin Up Buttercup a breakup album may be factually accurate but it’s woefully inadequate when describing the music aimed at reconstructing life after turbulent relationship heartache and loss. The…
Alison Goldfrapp’s intimate “Flux” continues her fearless growth
For an artist who has always played with reinvention; as glam-rock mystic, electronic siren, ambient poet, and synth-pop high priestess, Alison Goldfrapp has rarely sounded as personally rooted and emotionally…
Kelly Lee Owens drops summer “Sunshine” ahead of new album
With the British summer somewhat missing in action so far it’s up to Welsh producer Kelly Lee Owens to fill that void and drop an infectious and resolutely positive electronic…