Tag: Not Turning Back from Baylee Dowling

A Raw Nerve: “In All My Nightmares I Am Alone” by Post Death Soundtrack

Post Death Soundtrack’s latest offering, “In All My Nightmares I Am Alone,” arrived not so much as a collection of songs, but as a psychic weather event. Listening to Stephen Moore’s solo excursion is like being invited to a wake where the dearly departed is, perhaps, oneself, or maybe just the idea of a stable Tuesday afternoon. It’s a dense, prickly thing, this record....

Nikiré’s “ETERNITY beneath the stars of God”: A Philosophy in Sound

One rarely encounters a title as forthright in its ambition as what Nikiré offers with "ETERNITY beneath the stars of God." This single from Tom Arild Junge’s philosophical project is not something you’d play while sorting the recycling; it demands, and subsequently creates, a specific kind of quiet. The Enya comparison is there, certainly—a female voice gliding over vast, ambient soundscapes—but the effect is...

Baylee Dowling’s “Not Turning Back”: When Life’s Softness Hits Hardest

It’s strange to think about silence as a form of noise, isn’t it? The kind that fills a room after you've heard something so...