Tag: Styngray

Punk-Adjacent Paralysis: The Sun Harmonic’s “Glory Days”.

The first listen to The Sun Harmonic’s single "Glory Days" is a jarringly familiar experience, like finding a hot-rodded engine inside your grandfather's once-sturdy grandfather clock. It’s all driving, muscular rock and roll, a glorious punk-adjacent racket built by Kaleb Hikele, Dave Skrtich, and Ian McLennan to peel the paint from the walls. Yet, nestled inside that furious momentum is a narrator stuck fast,...

Trapped in Beauty: “Serene Despair” by Antoin Gibson.

Listening to Antoin Gibson’s new EP, "Serene Despair", is like discovering a hidden, immaculately designed room in the architecture of your own skull, only to realize the locks are on the outside. This is music as a meticulous, hermetically sealed environment. Knowing Gibson is the sole operator of this venture—the writer, performer, and producer, founder of Circum-Sŏnus—explains the almost unnerving coherence.She isn't just building...

Styngray’s “Be Mine”: Prepare to Be Stung by Love

Styngray, that soulful crooner out of Chicago and Atlanta, just dropped "Be Mine," and... well, it's like finding a perfectly ripe avocado at the...