T. Houze brings together a luxurious, glistening world with the jazz hip-hop hybrid of “Midnight Season”. Melodies absolutely glow throughout. A long time in gestation (almost ten years) shows in…

Zalex goes for a sincere take on chamber pop on the stately indie rock of “Hindsight”. There is a kindness within the sound for Zalex has a reflective stance throughout…

* * * The Bird Confluence There was a joint between two rivulets that needed reconciliation and I could provide it with inattentiveness, amassable gentleness as natural to me as…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

Sxee Finesse offers up a gorgeous, glorious hyperpop trap sound with “Happy Hourz EP”. The many different elements come together through the sheer power of his voice. Within the lyricism…

When Rory goes out to attend the funeral, he leaves me alone with the dark garden and this pile of hardbacks in my lap. I am concentrating so hard on…

People often comment when they meet my son, “He has your eyes.” His eyes are blue, like a clear sky at dusk, outlined with the dark vignette of encroaching night.…

The Fat Sonnets by Samantha Zighelboim Argos Books, June 2018 SPD / Bookshop / Amazon 88 pages – poetry   As a poet, and a self-identified fat woman, reading Samantha…

Rex Macadangdang offers a classic psychedelic pop sound with “That’s The Magic EP”. The instrumental variety of the EP is a true joy for there are a lot of risks…

The shells are so tiny, most mistake them for grains of sand. They are complete structures within themselves, with every detail of their sacred geometry still intact. Most of their…

Pirooz Kalayeh’s 100 Films serves as a meditation on the way that the pandemic has affected the entire world. Rare is the event that knows no borders influencing literally every…

SCARPA’s “tempvs fvckit” makes me long for the beauty and raw passion of the early aughts indie rock. I’m talking about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Modest Mouse, that sort…

Wolves by Jeffrey Bolden Tolsun Books, November 2020 SPD / Amazon 152 pages – memoir/essays   “Wolves” by Jeffrey ‘Boosie’ Bolden, a review of the last book of a young…

First the Blue, Then the Bird The fan of feathers, the lift. The mind stumbles behind. At the coast, a neighbor shuffles her paisley skirt and feeds crows from her…