Articles by Jordan Currie
METZ Spinoff Weird Nightmare's 'Weird Nightmare' Sounds Like a Weird Nightmare
PUBLISHED May 25, 2022
Heavy distortion, blaring noisiness, fierce intensity — these are all words that one might use to describe a weird nightmare. They're certa...
Mitski Is Vulnerable and Mysterious in Equal Measure on 'Laurel Hell'
PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2022
After Mitski Miyawaki completed touring her acclaimed album Be the Cowboy in 2019, the singer-songwriter went dark. She deactivated her soc...
Beatrice Deer's 'SHIFTING' Is a Multilingual Merger of Darkness and Light
PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2021
Montreal-based singer-songwriter Beatrice Deer understands how to merge opposite worlds to birth a fresh, inventive new one. A blend of mod...
Hana Vu Unpacks Uncertainty on 'Public Storage'
PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2021
Hana Vu has had a brimming career, and she's still only at the beginning of it. The 21-year-old Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has tou...
Lil Nas X Is No One-Trick Pony on 'MONTERO'
PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2021
When Montero Lamar Hill burst onto the music scene as Lil Nas X in 2018 with "Old Town Road," his country-rap song about cowboys and horses...
'Demonic' Doesn't Possess Much Creativity
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2021
What do you get when you combine a virtual reality world in the vein of Black Mirror's "Playtest," a Stranger Things-esque monster and an e...
Willow Smith Makes Pop-Punk Her Own on 'lately i feel EVERYTHING'
PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2021
Willow Smith didn't think she was capable of singing rock music. Her pivot from dreamy pop and R&B to angsty punk rock was a surprise to he...
Emanuel's 'ALT THERAPY' Is an R&B Journey Through Healing
PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2021
Soothing, euphoric and completely therapeutic, Emanuel's debut album ALT THERAPY is appropriately titled and even more true in sound. The L...