Monthly Archives: October, 2020

There is something deeply compelling about a song that refuses to pretend everything is okay. "Still Standing" arrives as a country rap/rock anthem that embraces the messiness of anxiety, addiction, and the long road toward healing.  Instead of dressing its struggles up in polished clichés, the song leans into raw emotion, pairing country storytelling with the grit and energy of rock and rap all thanks...

A record can move fast without chasing the obvious route. “EMA”, Sienná’s nine-track experimental electronic album, begins from that possibility. The Kyoto-born, Oslo-based artist builds its premise around ema, the Japanese tool used to communicate directly with the divine. From there, she turns images and impressions gathered in nature into songs. It is a high-concept frame, but it lands because the concept asks a practical question:...