Tag: Lights album by Sam Ostler

Helladdict’s “Sudden Death”: An Exhumation of Fury.

Helladdict’s new single, “Sudden Death,” doesn’t feel like a tribute; it feels like an exhumation. Here are six men from Santiago, all seasoned enough to know that pure fury is a young person’s game, offering instead the far more corrosive anger of experience. They resurrect the chassis of 80s thrash, all bone-raw intensity and punishing tempo, but the engine is modern, built with the...

VANNGO’s “We’ll Rise LA!”: An Anthem Forged in Fire

VANNGO crashes onto the scene with "We’ll Rise LA!", and honestly, the first listen is like stepping out for coffee only to find the horizon unexpectedly painted in emergency orange. A sudden, arresting jolt. This Southern California singer-songwriter wastes no time getting personal, tackling the gut-punch of wildfire devastation with a sound that feels dug out of the earth itself. https://open.spotify.com/album/7BFK9hmXIr9qVVm3sa6ICj?si=ku1ZgTxQTCeDWkldfS7s4g There’s a moment of unsettling...

The Unwavering Resolve of Sam Ostler’s “Lights”

Sam Ostler’s new single, “Lights,” then. It unfolds less like a sudden, intrusive glare and more like the slow, determined burn of a really...