Reviewing your parents' music collection
Electro swing music has garnered a growing number of followers in recent years, making its way into the mainstream and onto the dance floors crowded with Western cosmopolites. However, despite its increasing success and presence, most would associate the genre with cover artists who take either swing classics or contemporary pop and EDM hits and… Continue reading Swing into the Future – Captain Cool Presents: "It Flew By" by The Electric Swing Circus
What do a city in the German Harz, 21st century anxiety, language barriers, and the musical rendition of a Spy Kids film have in common? They're all topics set to music on Bonaparte's 2017 album The Return of Stravinsky Wellington. This recommendation was part of a long list Captain Cool sent me some two weeks… Continue reading Grainy Polaroids and Spy Kids – Captain Cool Presents: “The Return of Stravinsky Wellington” by Bonaparte
Indie pop has always been a genre closely linked to the label of acoustic performance. The importance of the acoustic guitar, the non-electronic piano, the percussion provided live (usually on a cajon), the only evidence of production interference located in the microphone picking up the sound. The quality stamp of simplicity. Not that contemporary music… Continue reading Simplicity is Scary – Captain Cool Presents: BOY’s “Acoustic Collection”
My parents' taste in music has majorly influenced what I listened to growing up and how I approach music now. Their diverse catalogue of different artists and genres has made me a person unafraid of exploring the more unusual fields of what the contemporary music scene has to offer. I'm not interested in a particular… Continue reading Monsters, Gods and Vomiting Cyborgs – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s “Murder of the Universe” is a spectacle
The Dad Anthology 