Reviewing your parents' music collection
Galapaghost is a one-man-band project by Austin-based musician Casey Chandler. His musical style is hard to pin down, defying easy classification as he explores different sounds and flavours in the many albums he has independently produced. In the spring of this year, Sootie caught my attention and has remained an all time favourite since the… Continue reading Remembering 2019: Welcome to Synth Heaven – “Sootie” by Galapaghost
What makes an album not only good but great? What makes a collection of songs stand out among the thousands of records that are released every year? What's that special ingredient that makes us laugh and cry when we listen to music? Is it the stories they tell, the lyrics that entrance us? Is it… Continue reading Remebering 2019: The Master of Surprise is Back – Watsky’s “Grain 1,989³³”
In 2018 Australian songwriter Stella Donnelly broke my heart with Boys Will Be Boys, the second song on her magnificent debut EP Thrush Metal. She simply cracked it right open, split it down the middle until silent tears streamed down my cheeks and dripped from my chin. In 2019 she had me crying again by… Continue reading Remembering 2019: Australia’s Finest – Stella Donnelly’s “Beware of the Dogs”
I feel like I am expanding my collection of weirdly titled albums with this next choice of 'albums that shaped my 2019', including a record I discovered in April on another late night google spree. Deus Sex Machina: Or, Moving Slowly Beyond Nikola Tesla by Sons of an Illustrious Father is a rare beauty, synthesising… Continue reading Remembering 2019: A 21st Century Masterpiece – Sons of an Illustrious Father’s “Deus Sex Machina: Or, Moving Slowly Beyond Nikola Tesla”
I have different ways of finding new music. Next to recommendations - either from friends and family or from the sometimes scarily accurate spotify algorithm - I have the tendency to either just type in names or words I find interesting into the search bar to see what music comes up. Or I go on… Continue reading Remembering 2019: A Study in Album Names – AJJ’s “People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World”
The Dad Anthology 