Folk/Country
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15 years ago, Ed Sheeran’s ‘The A Team’ portrays the harrowing experience of poverty. We’re never getting anything like it from him again.
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Love is one of the biggest themes in music for its relatability, but its use in practice oversimplifies and reinforces obsession and codependency.
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The Tennessean alt-country band’s latest record contains weird productions and rambling lyrics; its direction feels too “modern” for its own good.
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As promised from last month, here are 20 short-form reviews for this month’s Capsule Reviews!
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The Californian Americana duo’s latest album defines beauty without any substance to back it; it’s purely an aesthetic masquerade.
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The adaptational nature of covering songs lend credence towards three directions in re-recording them under new circumstances or contexts.
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The Christmas classic is not only honest about the holiday season, but it also examines the American Dream as being just a dream.
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Charles Manson is one of the most notorious figures in pop culture history. His avant-psych style folk debut album is utter feces. This isn’t going to be a long retrospective album review that I would occasionally do with something like the Dismemberment Plan or Okkervil River. This is going to be more of a smaller…
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The country’s history with politically conscious music rings strong from the current government protests – one that could echo in Southeast Asia.
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The ex-YouTuber’s fourth album as a musician shuts all pretentious haters up as its free-flowing folktronica ripples through oceans of memories.
