Author: Purple Mistress
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Floyer Turns a Forgotten Theatre Into a Public Affair on “The Last Tickets To The Show”
Floyer wrote, performed and produced all twelve songs herself. That gives this elaborate production a particularly personal foundation: one artist inventing a cast, supplying their voices…
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Dan Webb Gives Nicole McCabe Room to Roam on “The Self Watches Their Return”
The electric keys give the track its psychedelic character, while Nicole McCabe supplies the freedom at the centre of the arrangement. It’s an absorbing combination: steady…
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Janeuary Turns “Snowflakes” into an Invitation to Hold the Small Moments Close
Released on October 9, “Snowflakes” adds a brief, reflective single to a catalogue that has moved between orchestral performance, electronic experiments and intimate songwriting.
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Naomi Jane Puts a Sharp Country-Pop Spin on Relationship Frustration with “Passenger Princess”
Co-written with Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket, “Passenger Princess” opens her album “Kinda Sorta Country” with a relationship argument that gives its breezy country-pop…
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RODDY Turns Years of Keeping the Peace into Pop Defiance on “MenacE”
Her musical theatre training provides a background for a song with a dramatic trajectory: irritation accumulates, the stakes rise, and the final stretch gives that pressure…
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Jay Pinto Finds Common Ground In The Warm Folk-Rock Of ‘Arrive or Company?’
It’s a very good starting point for a song about the worth of another person’s company to have an old singing partner in the room. The…
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Austin Powell Brings Grit, Groove and Personal Change Together on “Retribution”
“Retribution” finds its strength in the meeting of rhythmic pleasure and emotional strain, giving Powell’s personal songwriting an inviting, expressive shape.
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Henry Aberson Brings Funk, Soul and Bruised Romance Together on “Wouldn’t You Know”
Aberson’s collaborative approach provides a persuasive setting for Taylor’s storytelling, allowing the rhythm to carry some of the emotional conversation. The result has the makings of…
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TIANN Connects the Pull of Independence With the People Left Behind on “Miles From Home”
“Miles From Home” offers a compelling portrait of adulthood as something built with other people still firmly in mind.
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Alas de Liona Takes Her Demons Dancing on “Hunter I”
Vampirism becomes a useful way of discussing estrangement, the exhausting business of moving among people while carrying a private crisis.
