Sometimes the most radical thing a song can do is keep it short and mean it. Running…
Cara Whitfield has spent more years than she can count in record store back rooms and tiny venues, absorbing everything from post-punk to shoegaze to modern indie rock. She writes with the enthusiasm of a lifelong fan and the focus of someone who actually wants you to understand the song - not just enjoy it. Rock and alternative music is her home turf.
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Some love songs are written in the present tense. This one is written in a kind of…
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Some songs feel like they were written in a candlelit room at three in the morning, half…
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There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that sets in when you’ve stopped finding something amusing that everyone…
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Some songs don’t announce themselves. They arrive quietly, do something unsettling to the air in the room,…
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Some songs stay quiet while they devastate you. “Storms” is exactly that kind of song: unhurried, stripped…
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There’s a specific kind of anger that doesn’t shout. It interrogates. “What Makes You Think You’re the…
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Some songs feel less like they were written and more like they were recovered from somewhere just…
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Some songs earn their keep not by demanding your attention but by waiting for it. At two…
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