Music review
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Eric Alexandrakis – “Life Is Better Live” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Eric Alexandrakis is a twice Grammy-nominated musician and composer with quite the streak (I mean, just peep his biography!). After receiving extensive classical training, Alexandrakis put his musical gifts to good use by creating cinematic avant-garde music that feels both traditional and new at once. “Life Is Better Live” is the soundtrack… Read more
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Mr. MiLK – “Platitudinous” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ Sometimes an album cover makes me excited to listen to an album, only for its title to confuse me as to whether or not I am actually excited to pull the trigger and give the damn thing a listen. Such is the case with Mr. MiLK’s “Platitudinous,” which has an album cover… Read more
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Blind Uncle Harry – “Shambala Warrior” review
Final verdict: 7/10 ★★★⋆˙⟡☆ I have been aware of Blind Uncle Harry for a while, having been introduced to him through his 2025 single “Kimberly Kankowski.” For better or for worse, I chalked him up to being a “comedy rock” act (as much as I hate to slap that label on music, because what do I… Read more
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Slime Squadron – “…Gateways!” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Slime Squadron (hereby referred to as simply “Slime”) is an electronic music project based in Austin, Texas. A recognized force in their game, Slime has won several music awards, including 3 consecutive LIT awards, and has enjoyed several other distinctions. All that there was left to do for Slime was get signed… Read more
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Kenny Foster – “Sideways Apocalypse” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ You know Kenny Foster – “Poor Little Trillionaire,” “Fixing Up Everything,” and other songs that I am sure evade me at the moment. The Connecticut-native singer-songwriter has a bit of an activist streak, with his new single “Sideways Apocalypse” satirizing the current political climate of the United States. It only makes sense,… Read more
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Second Choice – “Where You Found Me (feat. Dimi De San)” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Swedish musician Fredrik Lindström has been around for longer than most of my reader base has been alive, playing guitar in a whole slew of bands since 1992. In 2010, he started Second Choice, a solo project designed to accommodate all his musical ideas that did not fit the mold of any… Read more
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Jackalico – “The Sun Under the Water” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ It is not so frequent that I spend a lot of time thinking before I write a review – I am the impulsive type, the kind of guy to listen to an album and instantly get to work on writing about it, my thoughts flowing in an endless stream, not always intelligibly,… Read more
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Yulia – “Let’s Agree to Love” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ I was introduced to the glittering world of jazz fusion in much of the same way many fellow nerds were; and that was through Japanese fusion acts. Think Casiopea, think Kenso, think of that sort of thing. Though none of these bands managed to reach “hood classic” status for me, I have… Read more
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Chris Keaton and the Millennials – “Lucky For Me” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ Billy Joel is a big guilty pleasure of mine, I must admit. He is but a whiny man who whines, but he writes some very good songs which to whine with. And now that I found Chris Keaton and the Millennials’ “Lucky For Me”… it is all coming back to me, bit… Read more
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Alias Wayne – “Castles in the Sky” review
Final verdict: 5/10 ★★⋆˙⟡☆☆ Alias Wayne is a fun entity in the music landscape, and I cannot quite justify this stance of mine. You see, his previous single “Manifest Destiny” was just okay, and his new “Castles in the Sky” is… nothing but a bunch of the same thing. So it is a pile bargain bin… Read more