The Stumptown Groove
One of the biggest joys of my life is finding new music to fall in love with. Often, this means scouring the “New Releases” tab of Apple Music to find fresh albums and songs to latch on to. But in a year where many of the most popular music releases have been a little underwhelming, […]
Throughout its discography, Summer Salt has consistently chased and succeeded to capture a feeling: the feeling of cruising along a curved road on a warm summer day, sun-soaked air tossing your hair in every direction. Or the feeling of laying on a sandy beach on the warmest afternoon of the year, floating in the balance […]
“Forever” feels like the right word when describing most of the songs on M83’s newest record, Forever, where ambient, drawn-out tracks meet the new wave percussion and synths that has kept the French electronic group at the forefront of dream pop for the last quarter-century. More than anything, Forever sounds like an escape into infinity, […]
On his third studio album, Since I Have a Lover, Ricardo Valdez Valentine Jr., better known as 6lack, largely sticks to his tried-and-trued repertoire of songs dedicated to love, relationships, sorrow, and finding happiness in relationship and himself — and he pulls it off, with songs like “Fatal Attraction” and “Stories in Motion” showing off […]
Compelling. That’s the word that I think best describes music, with its myriad of definitions and massive umbrella of genres. Over my life, I’ve found that there will always be a few constants: death, taxes, traffic, to name a few. Most constants in life aren’t exactly positive. But music is one of the few constants […]
The Stumptown Groove 