Cassette Culture: January 2023
Cassette Culture is a monthly column dedicated to exploring the various artists that inhabit the expansive cassette market. Drawing...
Joshua Pickard
mui zyu explores overwhelming love and our fear of losing affection on lo-fi lullaby “Dusty”
The work of Hong Kong British dream-pop musician mui zyu (also of Dama Scout) is rooted in melodic...
Album Review: H.C. McEntire – Every Acre
The slow creak of a floorboard underneath an old rocking chair. The feel of worn woodgrain on a...
Amber Nicholson evokes the breezy motions of ragtime in the emotionally empowering “Far Far Far” [BPM Premiere]
From the moment she first started playing piano, when she was roughly 5 years old, Texas musician Amber...
Dakota Jones channel classic funk and R&B grooves on affectionate ode “Sugar Pie” [BPM Premiere]
In the time since the band released their debut album, Black Light, back in the summer of 2021,...
Skycabin deconstructs electro-pop aesthetics to create an aural seduction on the hallucinatory “INSIDIA” [BPM Premiere]
The story behind Skycabin is a twisting tale of Iranian histories, music videos, documentaries, and avant-garde sound design....
Whitney Walker recalls women from his past in the video for darkly melodic elegy “Heather from Here” [BPM Premiere]
The work of Portland, Maine singer-songwriter Whitney Walker inhabits dark, rain-soaked landscapes where back-alley transactions, secret affairs, and...
Shaylee illuminates the darker recesses of the heart on grunge-pop frenzy “Snow Day” [BPM Premiere]
Portland power-pop punks Shaylee have spent years refining a sound that recalls the brash swagger of early Green Day...
Occurrence revel in lust through the industrial electro-pop noise of “Fudge” [BPM Premiere]
It’s all about damages and consequences and violence – at least those were the overriding themes that New...
Andrei Irimia offers kaleidoscopic visuals while luxuriating in the neo-classical ambience of “It Comes at Night” [BPM Premiere]
Romanian neo-classical composer Andrei Irimia began his musical trajectory when he was quite young. He’s been able to...
