With a name meaning “exchange rate” in their native Ukrainian in reference to the local economy’s high dependence on daily world currency fluctuations, yet stylistically written in Latin complete with flourished umlaut for added pizazz, the Kurs Valüt project was built of sounds … Continue reading Kurs Valüt ~ Ni (No) (❤ua) [2⊘18]
She wields her secrets with a lustful passion, a carnal pleasure-plaything ill-matched and inhuman. A sultry-siren Molotov cocktail of combustible liquid ice, overflowing with preternatural beauty and grace enough to lure the soon-to-be soulless to her Stygian rocks, forlorn. His life, forfeit, bereft of soul, he struggles with his ebbing courage, grip… Continue reading IAMWARFACE ~ Closer [2⊘18]
Jack Torrance once reminded us, on reams of creatively-typed paper, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!” So, here to replace that straight-laced sin with the unmentionable wickedness of (gods-forbid) disco-inspired darkwave, is the straight-faced sinfully-decadent band Night Club. Cavalier in their boisterous love of the dark-schizoid, Los Angeles’ Emily Kavanaugh (vocalist) and Mark Brooks (producer) began, “with the goal … Continue reading Night Club ~ Die In The Disco [2⊘2⊘]
Native Kyivian, Serj Kost of Gentle Ropes penned Oči (Eyes) with references to The Smiths songs Still Ill and There is a Light That Never Goes Out. This, the first single from his upcoming album Control (to be released May 6th, 2022), is one of only two native-tongue tracks on the album and the first to be released as a single. The new album, “(is) … Continue reading Gentle Ropes ~ Oči (Eyes) (❤ua) [2⊘22]
