Review of Hozier – Death, Darkness, Dirt & Decay
There is a natural tension throughout Hozier’s discography. He sings of hope and love even though he begins by only affirming darkness, manifest in the rot of death. Read More …
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There is a natural tension throughout Hozier’s discography. He sings of hope and love even though he begins by only affirming darkness, manifest in the rot of death. Read More …
What ‘Swim’ does, which is so masterful, is explicitly revisit some recurring and very specific poetic images that Gundersen has employed in his earlier albums. Read More …
Anemoi Cycle: Notos, Eurus, Boreas, Zephyrus Read More …
Phoebe Bridgers has given us a beautiful and heart-breaking image of the utter deficiencies of our default modern perspective. Read More …
This review may just be a Christian critic reading a spiritual and religious analysis into an album that has nothing to do with any of that. Seriously, I can concede this on Father of the Bride. Read More …
There is a story we moderns tell ourselves. As it has been contributed to for many decades by countless psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, politicians, and pastors, it has taken on a folkloric quality; it is the myth of our time. Read More …
David Dark’s The Possibility of America is as foreboding as it is worthwhile. Read More …
If dropping album sales are an indicator, more and more people prefer to listen to randomized playlists and top hit countdowns tailored by Spotify and other digital music providers. It would seem that fewer people are consuming entire albums at a time, from the first track to the last. If that is the case, I Read More …
In the age of social media, it is not enough to have a pen name. In order to make people believe that such an author is legitimate, the publisher would naturally have to create a digital persona to go along with the pseudonym. Which brings me to today’s review. There is no such writer as Read More …
It is incumbent upon Christians to promote good art, which necessarily has to be honest, authentic, and vulnerable. Read More …