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The music for Chief of War opens with tension and patience. The title theme introduces layered percussion and choral textures before anything melodic enters. Voices sit inside the rhythm, not on top of it. Zimmer and Everingham avoid the usual climb into fanfare. Instead, the tone is steady and grounded, shaped by restraint and repetition…
Amanda Emblem doesn’t write albums so much as she accumulates them. She works through songs like they’re assignments, letting them pile up until something has to be done. That process drives The Wood, a collection written off-grid in a beach town. The album sounds more shaped by time spent off-grid than by any concern for…
Glenn Thomas has been working under the radar for a while now, writing clean, emotionally honest songs that move somewhere between folk, alt-country, and quiet pop. His second album, Inevitables, doesn’t break that mold, but it doesn’t really need to. It plays like a document of a songwriter refining his habits, turning inwards, and learning…