Tag: My State with Its Whatever

Tonje Gravningsmyhr Maps Adult Doubt Into Pop Clarity On ‘MAZE’

The Norwegian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tonje Gravningsmyhr turns loss, self-love, identity and imposter syndrome into a thoughtful pop album 'Maze' shaped by horns, patient craft and grown-up honesty. In the old stories of labyrinths, the monster is rarely the only danger. The greater fear is the corridor that looks familiar, the turn that repeats itself, the small panic of trying to remember who you were...

Celeste Marie Wilson Turns Southern Girlhood Into Shelter In “Willow”

The Texas country and Americana singer-songwriter Celeste Marie Wilson frames resilience, sisterhood, and southern poetry with a voice rooted in Gulf Coast memory. There are trees in Southern music that do far heavier work than scenery. Oaks keep family secrets. Pines mark county roads. Willows bend, grieve, shade, and somehow remain. In “Willow,” Celeste Marie Wilson reaches for that image with the calm nerve of a...

My State Delivers a Sonic Exorcism on “Its Whatever”

When the Malaga-based duo My State unleashed "Its Whatever", I half-expected my speakers to start smoking—or at least demand an apology for the sudden...