tricot: 10

Ezekiel RodofiliJanuary 26, 2021

10 (Jū) starts with "You" ("おまえ"), an energetic track that mostly follows a straightforward, high energy route. There are a few twists and turns along the way b...

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LAVRENCE: All in my Head

Ezekiel RodofiliDecember 22, 2020

"All in my Head" is LAVRENCE's second single for the year (as far as I am aware). The song starts off with (predominantly) a simple rising pattern that stays...

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Q & A With Andy Bull

Ezekiel RodofiliDecember 4, 2020

Recently Andy Bull released "It's All Connected". I asked him about the single, and he responded in kind. -- Ez: Hi Andy Bull! I hope you're doing well....

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Sophia: Holding On / Letting Go

Ezekiel RodofiliNovember 26, 2020

"Strange Attractor" kicks off Holding On / Letting Go with this beeping synth that is a little cheesy at first. As it plays on and some more ambient sounds buil...

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Deftones: Ohms

Ezekiel RodofiliNovember 22, 2020

"Genesis" begins Ohms with a buzzing and slightly wobbling synth. Echoing guitar notes come to meet it. It's ominous, but it does not last. A short count and De...

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Lack The Low: Know What It’s Like

Ezekiel RodofiliNovember 13, 2020

What sounds like a violin droning in opens "Know What It's Like". Once the vocals come in it does indeed reveal itself as violin. There's a sort of dark, roomy ...

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Whale Fall: It Will Become Itself

Ezekiel RodofiliNovember 9, 2020

It all starts with a lonesome piano. It's perhaps a little too much on the melodramatic, but opening Whale Fall's It Will Become Itself with the dramatic "It Wi...

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Q & A With Marét

Ezekiel RodofiliNovember 9, 2020

Recently Marét released "Greedy", one of the songs from EP02, as a single. I shot through a few questions about the song, what it means and how it came to be. ...

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Q & A With Aya Yves

Ezekiel RodofiliNovember 9, 2020

Recently Aya Yves released "Dear E.", a song that deals with a personal subject matter, so I asked her a few questions about it. -- Ez: Hello Aya, I hope...

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Turtle Skull: Monoliths

Ezekiel RodofiliNovember 6, 2020

What's old is new and new is new and so on and so forth. If not enough people do enough to grow the genre and move it forward, instead relying on trotting ou...

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