Reviewing your parents' music collection
The moog synthesiser is an incredibly interesting instrument: as versatile as the human voice, essential to the rise of prog rock in the 1970s and still a hallmark for synthesiser virtuosity today. What a shame that one of its first popular instrumental compositions has been appropriated by a blue CGI frog that lived only to… Continue reading Music That You Can Moog To – Captain Cool Presents: “28 Big Ones” by Hot Butter
When you're being recommended an album titled Floating Harmonies by an Icelandic singer-songwriter making music under the name 'Júníus Meyvant', your first instinct, like mine, may be to expect a record à la Björk or Emilíana Torrini. Something soft, whimsical, introspective, something in line with the Scandinavian aesthetic one may find on the Etsy front… Continue reading A Study in False Advertising – Captain Cool Presents: “Floating Harmonies” by Júníus Meyvant
The cover to Scotch & Water's debut EP Never Enough, Always Too Much depicts a person diving headfirst into the water of a purplish, black and white collage. Escalators arise at the bottom, leading up into the stream, flanked by subway stations and tiled pillars. A collection of cables severs the image into an above… Continue reading A monochromatic debut – Captain Cool Presents: “Never Enough, Always Too Much” by Scotch & Water
The current global situation is having a dire impact on the present and future experience of live music. As much as we enjoy the ease and convenience of Spotify, YouTube and co. to consume recorded music basically at any time and in any space, the uniqueness and appeal of live music performance has established a… Continue reading Captain Cool Presents: Why we need live music or “Are We an Electric Generation Falling Apart?” by Matija
In January of this year, Munich music collective Kid The Child released their first EP, Duty Free. Led by simple melodies and danceable rhythms, the band presents a spectrum from first class indie dance pop to surprisingly straight-forward rock notes. Sadly, musical structures are firmly build and only experimented with to a certain extend. There… Continue reading Still in the Beta Phase – Captain Cool Presents: “Duty Free” by Kid The Child
The Dad Anthology 