Tag: Sista Mika - Summertime

The Quiet Shame: Nom De Plume’s “Circle the Dream”.

Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on any globe. This is a record for the motionless traveler, the soul pacing the perimeter of its own skull. Aris Karabelas and Michael Magee have crafted a landscape not of highways and canyons, but of the vast, contradictory terrain behind...

Pop’s Darkest Smile: Shotgun Driver’s Jester Privileges.

Listening to Shotgun Driver’s new EP, “Jester Privileges”, is like finding a glitter bomb in a padded cell. The four songs present a disorienting, strangely compelling contradiction. On the surface, the alt-pop framework pulses with an upbeat, almost defiant energy; this is the slick, rock-tinged anxiety of a Machine Gun Kelly track built for open-road brooding. But beneath it, the narrative, carried by those...

Sista Mika Evokes Powerful Narratives In Her Latest Single ‘Expropriation’

Musicians who can create magic by drawing into their origins have a certain captivating and true quality about them. Sista Mika, whose given name is...