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Album Review: Puritan Themes, the Second Psych Masterpiece by Holy Sons in 2025

A cosmic road trip shifting between physical and interior worlds.

According to the Puritan Themes press release, the album’s lead single “Chain Gang,” is “an imaginary take on if Cat Stevens had smoked a ton of salvia and taken a much darker route within the world of dense, story-telling songwriting.”  Experiences with salvia can be impactful. Fun trips where textures replicate themselves across various surfaces, […]

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Album Review: The Pastoral Minimalism of Ann Annie’s El Prado

Real and imagined landscapes for where you are and where you’ve come from.

Joan Mitchell made a name for herself in the art world through her large scale paintings featuring gestural, emotionally charged mark making. Working mainly as an abstract-expressionist, her paintings vibrate in her use of color and the movement of brushstrokes across the canvas. Though her paintings appear to be non-objective, as one spends time with […]

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Album Review: Norway’s Mortiis Live at Enchanted Forest and Star Theater

Dark Dungeon Synth for your next D&D adventure.

Seminal Norwegian black metal band Emperor formed in 1991 with bass player and lyricist Mortiis at the helm. Mortiis recorded two acclaimed EPs with the band: Wrath of the Tyrant and Emperor, later compiled as Emperor/Wrath of the Tyrant—but by the time Emperor started work on their debut full length, Mortiis had stepped away to […]

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Album Review: Holy Sons’ Fourth Entry in the Lost Decade Series

Memory-making, music to be nostalgic for in the future.

“What it means to be [an] amorphous teenager and not know what you’re becoming, and that kind of moment of potential magic that I think everybody has.” So says Emil Amos, the prolific artist behind Holy Sons, opening the first episode of his podcast, “Drifter’s Sympathy.”  “I wanted to delve into [the] atmosphere and romance […]

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