Tag: Downtown Patriots videos

The Gothic Intimacy of “Necromancer” by She Becomes

She Becomes’ new single, “Necromancer”, has left me thinking less about music and more about the strange inscriptions one finds on very old gravestones. It’s a track that hangs in the air like November fog, built on guitars that feel like they’ve been dragged through damp, loamy soil and a bassline that has the coiled-up energy of a minor character in a Brontë novel,...

“Ruined”: Caitty Navigates the Treacherous Heart.

Listening to Caitty’s new single, "Ruined," is a bit like discovering a breathtakingly beautiful, venomous flower growing in the cracks of a city pavement. There’s an immediate, polished allure to this dark-pop track, a sleekness in its production that pulls you close before you realize the thorns are digging in. It operates in that fascinating, treacherous space where affection becomes a weapon, a territory...

A Winter Waltz of Memory: Downtown Patriots’ “Angels In The Snow”

Danny Watts is to acoustic strings what winter frost is to tree branches: an unexpected adornment, at odds with what you thought you knew,...