Tag: Butterflies by LTB

Feel the Heat: Empty Pinata’s Hypnotic New Single “Bonfire”

Empty Pinata – remember LA Rodriguez? – serves up the single "Bonfire," and honestly, the air changes slightly when you play it. It’s less like passively listening and more like discovering a singed diary page fluttering down a quiet street. The music itself is this curious contradiction, wrapping harrowing emotional shrapnel in the comforting gauze of indie-pop, flecked with soft rock warmth. A strangely...

Lose Your Gravity with The Trusted’s “Levitate.”

Listening to The Trusted’s new single, “Levitate,” is to willingly submit to a glorious, well-produced panic attack. From its opening moments, where frontman Tom Cunningham confesses to feeling like something to be discarded in the street, the track establishes a brutal vulnerability before yanking you into the dizzying orbit of another human being. It’s the sound of being so completely poleaxed by infatuation that...

The Unsettling Beauty of LTB’s “Butterflies”

LTB's new single, "Butterflies," arrives fluttering with a name that promises delicacy, yet delivers a pin through the wing. This Annapolis artist wraps raw...