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Victor Ferrer – “Morningstar” review
This review was paid for by Victor Ferrer. 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 ★★★★☆ Artist spotlight Sunday! Artist spotlight Sunday! Dear everyone, behold Arizona-based singer-songwriter Victor Ferrer and his fresh new LP, “Morningstar.” Now I know what you… Read more
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Alias Wayne – “Manifest Destiny” review
Final verdict: 6/10 ★★★☆☆ Well, here’s another narrative hole fer ye, fresh out the oven. I am generally a fan of fleshed-out americana – maybe because mentally, I am but a little boy from Texas, the world capital of American exotica. For reference, please consult my brand-spankin’-new review of the brand-spankin’-new Christmas choon that is El… Read more
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El Drifte – “Here the Holidays Is” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ ‘Tis the season! If my review of Seiko Matsuda’s winter-themed “North Wind” (1980) wasn’t enough ice-cold festivity to satisfy your reader’s fancy, here we got a proper, real, true, legit Christmas tune. By which I mean, it doesn’t dance around the meat, implying Christmas through winter-season imagery – nay, this goes… Read more
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Blind Uncle Harry – “Kimberly Kankowski” review
Final verdict: 7/10 ★★★⋆˙⟡☆ This is a comedy rock type deal, I take it? I’m not saying this because “Kimberly Kankowski,” the new single by Blind Uncle Harry (to be released on December 4th of this year!), is a bad song – the tune itself is fine. But the lyrics it has on show at first… Read more
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The Heard Eye – “Plenty Love” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ Man, when I read that The Heard Eye, the 5-piece outfit I was assigned to review on this cold Tuesday night, did “funk rock”, I was pumped to check them out. As a certified funky fellow, I love myself some funk to get down and funky to. Needless to say, I felt… Read more
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Order of Silence – “Solemn Monday” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ I have a lot of thoughts on this piece; though I will do my best to lay them out in an intelligible fashion, I don’t guarantee you anything. Order of Silence; a surprisingly mild rock band, unlike what its impossibly metal name may suggest. From what I’ve gathered, Order of Silence was… Read more
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Yumi Arai – “The 14th Moon” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Yes, I have decided that I’m going to be reviewing all the Yuming in existence. Cry about it. Or actually, please don’t – I’d hate to see pretty little you cry. Cheer up, beautiful! Because what we got here, is another Yuming album to live, love, and laugh to (but not… Read more
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Yumi Arai – “Cobalt Hour” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ The stars have aligned once again; I am feeling capricious, hence I skipped my prose class today (being an English major is not for the weak), and what better way to spend my self-declared day off than to listen to Yuming, my most beloved of all? No, seriously. As time goes… Read more
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Silia – “The Forbidden Resort Chronicles” review
Final verdict: ??? Is this the single worst idea I’ve ever had? Yes. Am I still doing it? Also, yes. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, and everybody else. I’m reviewing my own album here. Obviously I won’t give it a rating (for I cannot objectively rate it – I consider it to be my child,… Read more
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Ruth Ruth – “Laughing Gallery” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ It must’ve been July 2023 when I found this CD in the bargain bin of a hole-in-the-wall second-hand record store (that has since been closed down, RIP). This very amusing cover art caught my eye, and so I took the album home (having paid for it, obviously – I am by… Read more
