Tag: Sound Liberation

“I Wonder”: The Resilient Clarity of No Ordinary Fish.

No Ordinary Fish. The name itself conjures expectations beyond the usual shoal, doesn't it? And their new single, "I Wonder," largely delivers on that peculiar promise. It’s a track that sidles up rather than storms in, Exeter’s four-piece crafting a slow-burn narrative of party-lit paranoia and eventual, crucial self-affirmation. https://open.spotify.com/track/1njJIPxdyL3IANAtuQnaAn?si=4b060b4eb12840c2 Debbie Pearce’s voice steers us through this emotional labyrinth. We’re right there with her, feeling that...

The Gothic Intimacy of “Necromancer” by She Becomes

She Becomes’ new single, “Necromancer”, has left me thinking less about music and more about the strange inscriptions one finds on very old gravestones. It’s a track that hangs in the air like November fog, built on guitars that feel like they’ve been dragged through damp, loamy soil and a bassline that has the coiled-up energy of a minor character in a Brontë novel,...

Listen Deep: Sound Liberation’s Complex “Elegy”

Sound Liberation’s “Elegy” isn’t so much an album as it is an unbolting of several sonic cages, letting the inhabitants mingle, argue, and eventually,...