For Logic, it’s not enough that he’s an immensely successful rapper with listeners numbering in the hundred millions. He’s obsessed with his legacy, and being recognized as a hip hop titan not just by his fans but by the giants of the industry. On “Homicide,” Logic’s bitterness about this lack of recognition boils over as […]
Author: Naomi Pringle
Club Kuru invites you to “Meet Your Maker”
This week, British psychedelic pop band Club Kuru released their second studio album, Meet Your Maker. Club Kuru has made a name for themselves over the past few years with their distinctive sound and exuberant live performances. Together, the members of Club Kuru create a colorful, textured psychedelic sound. Band frontman Laurie Erksine was a […]
Schoolboy Q Hits a Wall in “CrasH Talk”
It’s been three years since Schoolboy Q has released an album, but from the way his latest drop, CrasH Talk, has been reported, you would think it’s been a decade. Hip hop is not a genre in which artists are inclined to take their time with releases. C There are a staggering number of incredible talented […]
Prior to 2018, Singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett excelled in metaphor but never really with speaking plainly about emotion. Her last album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, saw Barnett turn her witty, incisive gaze inward, letting loose righteous and honest anger. In her newest single, “Everybody Here Hates You,” she shows no signs of losing that […]
Las Aves Thinks “You Need A Dog”
“You Need a Dog,” the new music video out from Las Aves, opens on singer Zoe Whalen sprawled dejected in a teenaged bedroom. Pictures of celebrities plaster the walls and a stuffed dog sits at her feet. She’s just been dumped, and in a wistful deadpan she sighs into the phone, “I wish I could […]
Queendom, the debut album from reggae singer Analea Brown, dropped March 22 and rose quickly to the #2 spot on the Billboard reggae charts. Before now, Brown has spent most of her career behind the scenes, ghostwriting for other artists before taking the spotlight as a performer. It’s surprising and impressive, then, to see how […]
Since his 2016 debut, Izzy Heltai has used his music to speak candidly about love and pain, and to remark on the natural beauty that he immerses himself in. “Marching Song”, his latest single, follows the release of last year’s EP, Sweet Apathy, in which Heltai unpacked his struggles with depression, and the resultant dissolution […]