Some songs are content to mean one thing. Grey Seal isn’t one of them. Built around a…
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.
Some songs announce themselves. Others slip in quietly and do their most interesting work before you’ve noticed…
Some songs are about leaving. This one is about finally knowing where you actually belong. On the…
Some songs dress up as the thing they’re criticizing, and do it so convincingly that the disguise…
Fame has a way of consuming the people it claims to celebrate, and few songs have captured…
Grief doesn’t always announce itself with words. Sometimes it arrives as sound first, as a slow-building instrumental…
Two minutes and nineteen seconds is barely enough time to make a point, but Big Sexy Noise…
There’s something almost refreshing about a love song that refuses to be one. While most breakup tracks…
Some songs announce their obsession in the title and spend the next three-and-a-half minutes refusing to explain…