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6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (337+ words) THROES NYC’s The Wires Out lives in the messy territory where attraction becomes obsession and intimacy can feel just as alienating as it does comforting. Drawing from alt-pop, trip-hop, electronic music, and New York’s underground pulse, the duo’s self-described “altriphop…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (347+ words) With more than two million streams worldwide behind him, independent recording artist Dorian enters a new chapter with RECONNECTED, an album that sounds less interested in staying within familiar boundaries than in rediscovering what might happen when those boundaries disappear....

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (197+ words) “Morning Sun” gets things moving with heavy, deep bass and thumping beats, immediately giving the album a sturdy pulse. Over it, Kilby’s husky yet light voice bounces through the arrangement with catchy phrasing, vibrance and an almost weightless sense of…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (368+ words) Independent rock artist TrixxStarr turns a deceptively simple question into an increasingly unsettling meditation on excess with “Enough.” The song circles around the idea of having everything you supposedly need and still being left wondering whether any of it actually…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (277+ words) Illustrate Magazine Ghost Talk Show by Mark Cee: Album Review Mark Cee may have spent roughly three decades writing songs before stepping properly into the spotlight, but Ghost Talk Show sounds less like a delayed debut than an artist finally…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1858+ words) Siena Fantini Is Writing Open-Hearted Pop for the Girls Who Feel Everything. There is a specific kind of pop artist who knows how to make emotional survival sound like sunlight in a bottle. For millennials, Natasha Bedingfield did it with…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (262+ words) Poser by BLØSMM: Review Illustrate Magazine Poser by BLØSMM: Review Phoenix-based modern hard rock duo Jordan White and Brian Dellis are turning over a new leaf with their fierce new project, BLØSMM. After more than a decade together in Jane…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (282+ words) Illustrate Magazine Slightly Out of Focus by Brendan Ranney: Album Review After a 19-year self-imposed hiatus, Southern California indie singer-songwriter Brendan Ranney is striking while the iron is hot with his debut solo album, Slightly Out of Focus. Having cut…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (190+ words) “NO ME DIGAS” opens with hard-hitting beats and deep bass, while calm piano notes soften the edges of the production. That contrast gives the song its character: the rhythm has weight, yet the piano creates an almost vulnerable atmosphere around…...