Reviewing your parents' music collection
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
Before passing away in 2016, Leonard Cohen had released over 20 albums and written hundreds of songs and poems, painting worlds of love, lust, and loss. A poet and a musician, but always a storyteller, Cohen's songs capture the ears, forcing them to listen to the words he has spun in perfect patterns, allowing them… Continue reading “I heard of a saint who had loved you” or how to reach the heart – “Songs of Leonard Cohen” by Leonard Cohen
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 Dad Anthology 