Tag: When Worlds Collide

Holding Your Breath with Cuzoh’s Gritty “Slow Down.”

Listening to Cuzoh’s new single, “Slow Down,” feels a bit like holding your breath without realizing you’re doing it. The Hempstead-born artist has crafted a piece so deceptively smooth in its Hip-Hop and Soul blend that the grim story coiled within it strikes you a second too late, like the aftershock of a distant tremor. It’s a ghost story told about someone who is...

Nikiré’s “ETERNITY beneath the stars of God”: A Philosophy in Sound

One rarely encounters a title as forthright in its ambition as what Nikiré offers with "ETERNITY beneath the stars of God." This single from Tom Arild Junge’s philosophical project is not something you’d play while sorting the recycling; it demands, and subsequently creates, a specific kind of quiet. The Enya comparison is there, certainly—a female voice gliding over vast, ambient soundscapes—but the effect is...

The Sway’s “When Worlds Collide”: Unearthed Gems with a Heart of Gold

The Sway. London. Late 80s. These words, on their own, conjure... well, honestly, a flock of pigeons taking flight in Trafalgar Square. Unexpected, right?...