04-04-19 In the discursive coda of Creature Fear Bon Iver whittles the song down to a single repeated syllable–Rarely does folk, indie or otherwise– give so much over to ambiance. The faceless creature metaphor is one that is used by Bon Iver as well as countless...

04-03-19 Upon first listen, there may not seem to be anything especially surprising or different about this specific piece of music. Perhaps it’s just a well-produced soundtrack or something similar? In fact, the music and the artists performing are doing so while...

04-02-19 Fitter Happier sits right in the middle of Radiohead’s OK Computer. It plays a pivotal role to the overall narrative of the album effectively summarizing what the album is working at describing, however aesthetically it is felt significantly different than...

04-01-19 One of my first thoughts when listening to this song is thinking about the character in Grandma’s Boy JP, and how this was used as his entry music to simulate a unique technologically inclined individual. Not that it didn’t work for the intended use it has...

03-31-19 White Rabbit may not have been a surprise to the target audience, but it proved to be a surprise to censors after they caught on to the subtle euphemisms that are contained throughout the entire song. What has become known as one of the most iconic songs of...

03-30-19 I’ve spoken a few times on my Icelandic travels. It was over the Christmas season in 2017, my wife and I had gone for our honeymoon, both to experience the north during Winter Solstice, as well as experience the majesty of Iceland in the height of one of...

03-29-19 Not gonna lie, Surprise is challenging to capture in a song. Going into this week, I felt like the only proper way of honoring the emotion is to honestly do the best I can in letting the song…surprise me. Ratatat’s Wildcat was probably one of the first...