We Review Albums and Singles
A Viking Metal Band from Pune? Who could've imagined it? Spoiler alert - they're absolutely-positively the real deal. Make no mistake, Ragnhild's 2020 album Tavern Tales is an album to be read. We found ourselves following the storytelling all morning. Their first track, Battle On…
Remember the channel MCM? The French music channel we all switched to when MTV and Channel V stopped being about the music. It was the early 2000s and where else would we have gotten our dose of anything that came from across the seven seas?…
Imcha Imchen’s music video for his single Melody is the masterclass we all need - in cinematography, audio mastering, editing and most of all colour grading. This soothing ‘melody’ might just be what’s going to bring that smile to your face today. Set in Dimapur,…
You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues Al Jarreau Even if they didn't have footage of whiskey poured into a glass at the beginning of the music video, it would be the only way one would really enjoy…
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. Gabriel García Márquez Cat Stevens’ Father and Son has given fathers and sons chills ever since its debut in 1970. I was born nine years later but I’ve always…
The first time I heard the band Bloodywood, it was a range of emotions. Being a metalhead from the nineties and then going out of touch with the metal scene for over twenty years, I had no clue what was happening anymore. For all intents…
Panini, was an ancient Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and a revered scholar in ancient India, often referred to as the father of linguistics. But the Panini we are talking about today is a musician who goes by the pseudonym AFKAP. I’ll get to the philosophy behind…
I remember listening to one of the first Indian hip hop tracks maybe fifteen years ago and I hated it. It was pretentious as hell. India has always struggled with certain genres in music because we simply didn’t tell stories that demanded the genre. Hip…