Tag: Shannon Darcy discography

Emma Whybrow’s “Amnesia”: When The Beat Drops, So Does The Truth.

There’s a curious kind of cruelty beating at the heart of Emma Whybrow’s new single, “Amnesia,” and it is utterly exhilarating. Here is a massive, pulsing techno anthem—a thundering, four-on-the-floor declaration built for vast, sweaty rooms—and yet, tucked inside its propulsive machinery is an intensely private, bitingly personal act of dismissal. It’s like finding a handwritten "get lost" note folded neatly inside a fireworks...

The Hypnotic Pull of Patrick Hynes’ “Baby’s High Again”

Patrick Hynes’ new single, "Baby’s High Again," doesn't so much arrive as materialize, like a half-remembered scent of bourbon and regret clinging to a velvet curtain. This “Midnight Country” he’s cultivating, it’s less dusty plains, more the blue, flickering light of a motel television at 3 AM, illuminating a room where decisions have been made, then unmade, then made again. Hynes, a Scot with...

“Control Freak”: A Sonic Victory Lap for Shannon Darcy

There is a specific, teeth-grinding exhaustion that comes from nodding politely while someone tries to rearrange your personality, and Shannon Darcy taps directly into...