Tag: Evol Walks

The Cold Room: Brendan Pegg’s “I Can Tell.”

With his new single, “I Can Tell,” Brendan Pegg documents not the loud crash of a relationship’s end, but the awful, held-breath silence just before. This is a song that understands the atmospheric pressure drop that precedes a storm, the chilling moment you realize an unspoken truth has settled in the space between two bodies on a couch. Pegg’s voice isn’t performing for an...

Navigating the Hypnotic Maze of “Half Evil” by Tomato Soup

There is a peculiar kind of engine at the heart of "Half Evil" by Tomato Soup, and it runs not on gasoline but on disorientation. The Denver six-piece calls their sound "Motor-Folk," and it fits. The track has the chugging, forward-moving momentum of a vehicle, yet it seems to be driving through a landscape seen in a fever dream, where the signposts are all...

Evol Walks Revisits ‘Sleeping With A Ghost’: An Ethereal Acoustic Transformation

When the Australian band Evol Walks stripped down this version of "Sleeping with a Ghost," they bravely went where no one had gone before. The...