Ryan Beatty, a former Disney kid who abandoned the Disney thing to be gay and make his own music (W), came out with his third album, Calico, in April. He’s always had a talent for pop, taking inspiration from other artists and putting his own spin on it. Dreaming of...
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gelato
boylife's long-awaited debut album is the best I’ve heard in years.
Since boylife released peas in 2020, I’ve been in love and waiting for the full album. When I saw that gelato was out, I dragged myself from the depths of pre-pneumatic fatigue to listen, fall further in love, and to write an album review.
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DEACON
serpentwithfeet returns softer, more straightforward and more tender on his sophomore album.
In between the release of this album and the last, serpentwithfeet seems to have fallen in love. soil, released in 2018, was about impossible yearning, a borderline violent devotion. DEACON is about the contentedness that comes when you’re a little older, a little wiser, and you realize love isn’t about...
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Minari
Emile Mosseri’s original soundtrack pulls dreams from the earth
Oh, man. In terms of writing about music, I’ve been absolutely out of it over the last year. I’ve started numerous new release reviews—Kid Cudi, Healy, Dominic Fike; Rostam; serpentwithfeet—but the writing always dies in the drafts.
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A Sad Song by The Gospelaires of Dayton, Ohio
A journey to uncover, but all noble things are difficult as they are rare.
This song is sampled in Pink Skies (Demo) by Wiley from Atlanta, which I stumbled upon while hopping Song Radios on Spotify. Wiley loops a soundbite of a gospel track—a soulful rise and fall over a gentle, barely-there guitar—repeatedly to construct the main beat of the song. The first 25...
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