Tag: Baylee Dowling Not Turning Back

Blofeld Sands: “People”-ing the Gaps in Our Hearts (and Playlists)

Okay, let’s talk about Blofeld Sands, straight out of Brighton with a debut single, ‘People.’ That's the title, folks, not a directive. I mean, it kind of is, though, isn't it? When I first hit play, it wasn't the jangly guitars or the precisely placed drum fills that snagged my ear, but that singular word echoing in the verses: “loving people”. A simple phrase,...

“Unforgiven”: Sophia Mengrosso’s Operatic War Cry.

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Baylee Dowling’s “Not Turning Back”: When Life’s Softness Hits Hardest

It’s strange to think about silence as a form of noise, isn’t it? The kind that fills a room after you've heard something so...