Articles by Jordan Currie
Nia Archives Is Pure Electricity on 'Silence Is Loud'
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2024
Over the last few years, Nia Archives has been pushing the boundaries of what jungle can be. From sharing her early songs and remixes ...
Vera Sola's 'Peacemaker' Brims with Cinematic Grandeur
PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2024
Vera Sola’s sophomore album feels like a long lost Western, complete with sweeping American landscapes, gun-slingers and a troubled heroine...
Squirrel Flower Taps into the Minutiae of Apocalypse on 'Tomorrow's Fire'
PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2023
Music about climate disaster usually feels somewhat dogmatic and thematically grandiose. But on Tomorrow's Fire, Ella Williams of Squirrel...
Madeline Kenney Finds Freedom in Evolution on 'A New Reality Mind'
PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2023
On Madeline Kenney's 2020 album Sucker's Lunch, the Seattle-born singer-songwriter cautiously opened up her heart, giving herself permissio...
Black Belt Eagle Scout Traverses Difficult Emotional Terrain on 'The Land, the Water, the Sky'
PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2023
Following her 2019 sophomore album At the Party with My Brown Friends, Katherine Paul's latest missive as Black Belt Eagle Scout — the warm...
girlpuppy Confronts Herself on 'When I'm Alone'
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022
Allowing yourself to be vulnerable isn't as easy as all those sad songs make it seem. Bearing your big, scary emotions to the world is cath...
Dawn to Dawn's 'Postcards from the Sun to the Moon' Is an Intimate Dispatch
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2022
Dawn to Dawn's debut album Postcards from the Sun to the Moon is a sonic stream of consciousness. The Montreal trio, comprised of musicians...
Rina Sawayama Can't Hold Back on 'Hold the Girl'
PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2022
Rina Sawayama's muscular 2020 debut album — a pop juggernaut bearing her surname — came into the world with a fully realized sound, an impr...