Tag: Lead Balloon album by Zak Coghlan

A Synth-Pop Sanctuary: Lynney Williamson’s “I See You”

Lynney Williamson has delivered a pulse-quickening embrace with her remix single, "I See You." There is something inherently charming about a Glasgow artist crafting polished electronic pop within the confines of a walk-in cupboard; it suggests that the most expansive emotions don’t actually need much physical space to breathe. https://open.spotify.com/track/0iNErAKfaPIiQ4OaezZVHZ?si=104e7e6cb01c4405 The track is a shimmering collision of 80s-inspired synth-pop and modern urgency. It hits with a...

Into the Miasma: Rosetta West’s “Circle of Doubt”

Rosetta West's "Circle of Doubt" – it’s less a song dropped, more a confession overheard, a rumbling from the Illinois underground that settles deep in your sternum like a slow, incoming tide. Right from the off, you’re not just listening; you’re in it, this swirling blues-rock miasma where the psychedelic fuzz feels like the very texture of that titular doubt, clinging like damp wool....

Zak Coghlan Lets Weight Become Lift In ‘Lead Balloon’

A city can teach a person how to carry noise. The Liberties, with its old trade routes and close communal pulse, has long carried...