Tag: Styngray musical artist

gnomes’ “Microclimbs”: Finding Safety in Paradox.

Listening to gnomes’ new EP, “Microclimbs,” feels less like hearing songs and more like stumbling upon a meticulously catalogued collection of internal weather systems. The Berlin artist has shed an acoustic skin, emerging with a sound that’s electric, nervy, and complex. This is music for feeling overwhelmed in a way that’s almost, dare I say it, cozy. https://open.spotify.com/album/6a9jnB0IcQDdP6BHLaHpdJ?si=1zS3355CRwe4oaDcdouNeA The warm, watery warble of a Wurli synth...

Sinking Deep: Quentin Moore’s Intimate “Kiss Your Lips.”

The new single from Quentin Moore, “Kiss Your Lips,” doesn’t so much start as it seeps into the room, lowering the lights and raising the temperature by a degree or two. Moore is at the piano, his vocals draping over the notes with the patient weight of heavy silk. The entire thing feels excavated from some lost '70s studio session, a slow jam built...

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...