Jeremy is a writer living in Connecticut. He is also a music lover, music maker, editor, filmmaker, teacher, and host of Meet Our Makers podcast. He wears a lot of hats, and enjoys doing so, even though his head is small.
The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers is June’s strongest whole document so far, and it has such a crystalline, atmospheric take on her favored genres that it seems to exist both within and without the confines of those styles
Rhye’s music, while bountiful with beauty, texture, sensuality, and grace, is also pretty nondescript much of the time. If not for Milosh’s velvety coo of a voice the songs here would mostly fade into the background – and they almost do anyway.
Despite the music box-delicacy of their sound, Azure Ray was full of barely-submerged emotion. They didn’t have to overexert themselves to betray the heartache and longing in their work: the music, their voices, and their moving lyrics all combined to tell us exactly what we needed to know, and nothing more