Monthly Archives: November, 2020

Beauty can stop feeling personal when pleasing others becomes its goal. A choice becomes a duty. But who gets to decide when someone has done enough? That question offers a way into “Plastic Angels”, the single The Cunning Linguists. The Sydney trio addresses modern beauty standards and the pressures they place on women. Instead of praising an ideal, they question the demands behind it. The single directs...

A relationship can end before the longing learns to stop. Yet an almost relationship adds another ache: uncertainty about what, exactly, there is to mourn. Los Angeles-based Inyo gives that uncertainty twelve years of history on An Ocean Between, Pt. 1. This conceptual atmospheric acoustic rock album considers a bond that kept finding reasons to continue. The story involves a Christian and an atheist, but its...