In this early 2000s release, Colder’s Wrong Baby shares a poignant reminder that excitement can be found in the wrong places, and painfully so. French one-man band Marc Nguyen Tan scores here with such a gifted addictiveness as to be the veritable aural lucre of the gods. “Pretending… Continue reading Colder ~ Wrong Baby [2⊘⊘5]
Walked through the spiked punch bowl just to slide down the nice-and-spicy backside of the pleasure-packing party favor without regard for the big booty mess of branded-tan friendly faces lined up at the long john waiting for the pleasure of a load-lightening zippity doo dah only to chug-a-lug mug over at the kitty kill-me-softly keg with Brawny Apple-Spice my most hated nemesis and bestest friend. … Continue reading MISSIO ~ #gimmeakiss [2⊘22]
Crunch-chunky-chopped nu-metal guitars escalate and abate within a seesaw, teeter-totter, merry-go-round tirade of lyrical abuses. It’s a punch-drunk ride on the PTSD rollercoaster, forecasted and exemplified by your very own Gray-shaded, Saw-inspired, custom-modded, sado-masochistic toy Bop-It! — battery required. “I’m anxious, so cautious, I’m easily … Continue reading MOTHICA ~ SENSITIVE [2⊘22]
Brilliant, bold, and bassy, this is the kind of track that reverberates with such intensity as to provoke a cardiac arrest of emergency-room dancefloor-jigginess. Unsurprisingly, its creation was also a process of joy, “For this song we had a lot of fun writing something that was darker, driving and a little more edgy. It’s definitely one of the most … Continue reading RÜFÜS DU SOL – On My Knees [2⊘21]
Perhaps unsurprisingly a band named The Shyness of Strangers wouldn’t be the most unabashed. True to form, it might be more selectively-social and steadfast in its coldwave, post-punk sound. It might even … Continue reading The Shyness of Strangers ~ If It Serves You [2⊘17]
