On “Miracle in Transit”, Naked Flames pendulates between 90s influences and the skittish nostalgia of 2022. The ensuing 50 minutes of euphoric dance music is limber, vibrant, and imaginative. Ever since dance music collective Eldia hit the scene a couple of years ago, there’s been a light obsession with the textures and colourful culture of … Continue reading 2022 REVIEWS: NAKED FLAMES – MIRACLE IN TRANSIT
Podel is one of the internet’s most eccentric creators. Earlier this year he released his first album – I met him to talk about ambient music, graphics cards, and the nature of memory. Walking from the North London streets into a patch of forest, Podel tells me about his love for the rain. “The calm … Continue reading 2022 INTERVIEWS: PODEL
Yeah0k! is a cool girl who makes music, so you know I’ve been listening. She proved herself worthy with spacey single “it’s not all bad” in early 2022, a beautiful evolution from the life she once knew. She also dropped “lungs” with an accompanying video that came out recently. It’s bubbly and high-energy, and an … Continue reading 2022 REVIEWS: YEAH0K! – A TIME
Rome Mallory’s newest album Protect Your Inner Peace is reflective, a lethal cocktail of emotional explosivity. ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ opens with a sample from The Godfather, setting an apt tone for a set of songs that toil over the concept of loyalty in a frightening world where everyone is against you. But this project is … Continue reading 2022 REVIEWS: ROME MALLORY – PROTECT YOUR INNER PEACE
latobby channels his talents in creating ethereal pluggnB into this excellent twelve-song LP, his last full-length release in 2021 latobby–a rapper and artist in the 6ixtyw0rld collective–has already had a prolific year in 2022, dropping both a full-length effort and an EP within the first two months of the year. Last year, however, he dropped … Continue reading 2022 REVIEWS: LATOBBY – LATO DA MOST WANTED
The final entry in Fax Gang’s “RGB” trilogy is the group’s most mature work yet – their decaying digital world is realised in detail and overcharged with emotion. Fax Gang launched into the underground in 2020 with “FxG3000”, an endearingly insane collection of surge rap songs compressed and bitcrushed to leave the sound with a … Continue reading 2022 REVIEWS: FAX GANG – DATAPRISM
Chloe Hotline is moving at a million miles an hour. The Cincinnati vocalist-producer had a fantastic year musically in 2021, dropping a generous crop of catchy and thoughtful singles, EPs, and a whole album, “+NSTYNCT”. Her music sounds equal parts cinema and everyday grit, imbued with essential ideas of growth and gratitude and the burning … Continue reading 2022 INTERVIEWS – CHLOE HOTLINE
austyn with a y is learning how to navigate the complications of exposure with his heartfelt EP, “all eyes on me”. I recently bonded with austyn with a y over our love of the fast-food chain Bojangles (which has amazing sweet tea if you’re into that kind of thing). He asked if I’d want to … Continue reading 2022 REVIEWS: AUSTYN WITH A Y – ALL EYES ON ME
Xellfromhell of the collective 6ixtyworld, with fellow member Latobby, shows off his musical prowess with this catchy single released only ten days after his last full-length. Xellfromhell has had an incredibly prolific year, dropping singles and projects alike and collaborating with a wide array of his peers, particularly his fellow 6ixtyworld crew. From more aggressive … Continue reading 2022 SINGLE REVIEWS: XELLFROMHELL x LATOBBY – COME OVER
Staff writer Gray shares some of their thoughts and experiences of consumerism and music production in the digital era. There is a common sentiment shared online that music is severely undervalued. You can ask anyone in the underground music scene and they’ll tell you the same story: the shelf life of a song is about … Continue reading OPINION: THE DIGITAL MUSIC INDUSTRY IS INHUMANE
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