Tag: MJ Lake profile

Beautifully Broken: The Quiet Power of Suris’ “Pertinax”

Before listening to a single note of Suris’ new album, “Pertinax”, I spent a few minutes just looking at the word. Pertinax. It has the distinct ring of a Stoic philosopher’s last defiant utterance or maybe a type of beetle known for its unusually stubborn shell. What a curious flag to fly for a collection of songs in an age of fleeting distraction. But...

Between Fantasy And Frame: Trav Torch Directs His Own Desire In “Sex Scene”

Where R&B Meets Cinéma Vérité: Rising Artist Trav Torch Crafts a Steamy Director's Cut of Modern Romance In "Sex Scene" There's something deliciously meta about recording a song about recording a scene about sex. It's the kind of recursive romance that could easily spiral into self-parody, like pointing two mirrors at each other and watching infinity fragment into meaninglessness. But Trav Torch, with his latest single...

MJ Lake’s “Falling From The Floor”: Stitching Fractured Epiphanies into a Cohesive Tapestry

Let me tell you something—listening to "Falling From The Floor" feels a bit like slipping through the cracks of your own memories. It's not...