Tag: Baylee Dowling releases Not Turning Back

My Head Isn’t Empty, It’s Full of Seishin Takeno’s “Echoes”

Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...

Unpacking the Cure: Creative Vibrations’ “Sunday Bummer.”

Listening to Creative Vibrations’ new album, “Sunday Bummer”, feels a lot like the ailment it’s named for. It’s not an abrupt sadness, but a slow, creeping realization that the weekend’s flimsy sanctuary is dissolving. It’s the color of the sky turning from blue to a kind of industrial grey, the feeling of putting on work shoes that have spent two days forgetting the shape...

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...