Music review
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Reggie Braxton – “Flirtin’” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★⋆˙⟡☆ Smooth, jazzy, soulful, flirtin’ – all of the aforementioned are adjectives that aptly describe Reggie Braxton’s newly-arrived single “Flirtin’.” The singer-songwriter – as hard as it might be to find any definitive information about him (“age of information” be damned!) – appears to be a master of the laid-back RnB craft, and… Read more
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I AP – “The Zookeeper” review
This review was paid for by rileyssmiley. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ In a strange turn of events, UFO artist (a term I coined to mean “fascinating and elusive music project,” do you like it?) I AP… Read more
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Acting as Functional – “No Go Battle Zone” review
This review was paid for by Acting As Functional. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Acting as Functional and I go way back – and if you happen to be a keen reader of this very blog, you… Read more
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The Heard Eye – “Free Everybody” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Another day, another The Heard Eye feature. Except this tune is not new, no, not at all – “Free Everybody” is a track off the funk-rock collective’s 2023 album “Funkalypse.” That is to say, it has been out for a while now, but that is no deterrent for the purposes of this… Read more
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Darrell Kelley – “ICE Cold Killerz” review
This review was paid for by miamindmusic. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Have you made the grave mistake of reading the news recently? If so, you may be familiar with the mayhem ongoing in the United States… Read more
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Solid Gold – “Government Grade” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Music (and art at large) has always acted as a Trojan horse for political discourse. In 2026 more than ever before, with the United States up ablaze and the whole world down with it, politically charged art is of critical importance. That is the background against which Minnesota-based rock collective Solid Gold… Read more
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Acting as Functional – “Tick Tock Bump and Boom” review
This review was paid for by Acting As Functional. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 6/10 ★★★☆☆ Ladies and gentlemen, today I present you with what might be the most impressive redemption arc in all of music history; do you… Read more
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Danjul – “Dirty Playground” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Danjul is an up-and-coming artist hailing from the land of all that is peculiar – Los Angeles, California. The singer-songwriter has a humble-yet-mighty backlog of singles in his arsenal, but I would say that his recent release “Dirty Playground” is his most promising display of pop craftsmanship to date, all by a… Read more
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KIES – “You’re Golden” review
Final verdict: 6/10 ★★★☆☆ There are two types of “space music” out there: Louis Armstrong (space age), and Guernica (alien transmissions). Then there is KIES’ new single “You’re Golden,” which is rather preposterously queering the binary. Listen, I cannot understand what the guy is saying. His singing style can most aptly be described as “slurred mumbling”… Read more
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Brei Carter – “Country Lives In Me” review
Final verdict: 7/10 ★★★⋆˙⟡☆ I thought I was a country girl for having grown up in the country, and I thought I was a country girl for maladaptively daydreaming about fleeing the city on a bicycle and settling somewhere in the sunny meadows of rural Greece… But alas, here we have a country girl who not… Read more
