Author: Robert Barnes
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Under the Umbrella – An Overcast Retrospective
An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about anything 2020 was a monumental year for human civilization for one big obvious reason: the wealth of niche internet music that flooded all our feeds (and absolutely nothing bad happened all year).…
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Colliding With Mars & Elijah Who – lust + pride + sloth
Ah yes, the well known 7 stages of cardinal grief sins: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, lust, pride, acceptance, and… sloth? Wait that can’t be right. Colliding With Mars (not to be confused with Jared Leto’s 0.008333 Hours to Mars) is…
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THE ARCHIVE: Kukielle – KILL4ME
Let’s set the scene: you are sitting on your couch doomscrolling through TikTok when all of a sudden from next to you you hear a voice. “Hey babe?” utters your loving partner. As you begin to respond you mentally prepare…
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MADI – backyard ghosts
They say everyone is only 6 degrees of separation away from any other given person. The amount of weird connections to people and places we unknowingly make are numerous and far too complex to catalog, but it’s often brought to…
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Intentions – MR. BIG BAG + Lebron
Let’s set the scene. You’re waiting in line at the bank when suddenly the doors literally explode open. There’s rubble everywhere people are in shocked and confused, and amidst the chaos a man with a ski mask and a large…
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Pop music needs to innovate. Desperately.
An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about most things. Most people if you asked them would argue intensely that they grew up in the best era of pop music. Obviously you’re bound to have some attachment to the music…
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THE ARCHIVE: Darling I Dreamt & EMiDORA – Severed Ties 2.0
Saying that my Spotify algorithm doesn’t know what I want would be a horrific understatement of my current predicament. I’ve slowly been building a mental catalog of artists making this post-hyperpop blend of clean production with juuuust enough grit to…
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stecker – Suncatcher
I would love to sit here and tell you I woke up today and found your new favourite album, but unfortunately that would be a lie. You see dear reader, as phenomenal as the new stecker project is, I have…
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Cossette: faint Remixes (and Amazing Community Engagement)
Probably the only upside to being a marketing student at the same time as being an artist and running a music blog is getting to truly appreciate when I get to watch an artist I love do everything right. In…
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EDITORIAL – What The Hell Is Spotify’s Frutiger Aero Tag
An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about most things As you can imagine, running a music blog is about 75% rummaging through Spotify suggestions, 31% procrastinating, 17.4% stressing over absolutely nothing, and 100% not knowing how to do math.…
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