indie music
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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: 8/10 ★★★☆☆ 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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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
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Dusty Edinger – “Welcome to Our Demise” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ Dusty… Dusty, Dusty, Dusty. I love your stuff, man, I really do. This was a great song (as I will briefly attempt to demonstrate, though it really does speak for itself), but why does the cover have to be AI-generated? AI will be our demise, so isn’t this all a little ironic?… Read more
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Black Astronaut Records – “China Shop” review
This review was paid for by Black Astronaut Records. 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 ★★★★☆ On this gloomy, gloomy Tuesday morning, I humbly bring to you Black Astronaut Records’ 2023 single “China Shop” – a ballad swingin’ with… Read more
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Sabby – “Protirup” review
This review was paid for by Sabby. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ Well… it has certainly been a while since I last stumbled upon a song of such warmth. A song that heals the soul, a band-aid… Read more
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Fried Fred – “Nonchalant” review
This review was paid for by Fried Fred. 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 ★★★★☆ Another fortnight long elapsed, another hip-hop record in the bag. I think that through my perusing this terrain, I am starting to grow fond… Read more
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Darrell Kelley – “Sick of This” 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 ★★★★☆ Between the hip-hop/R&B hybrid stylings (peep the synth strings, the heavily autotuned vocals, and the generously syncopated rap flow, all of which vaguely remind me… Read more
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Zachary Chacon – “Protest Song” review
This review was paid for by Zachary Chacon. 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 ★★★★☆ A man of famously many names, Zachary Chacon is back with yet another banger under yet another name (this time his own!). “Protest Song”… Read more
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Eigh8t the Chosen One – “Inner Conflict” review
This review was paid for by ellg87. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ To quote a dead guy, “people can’t articulate a complete thought without quoting someone else,” or something to that effect. So, to introduce Eigh8t the… Read more
