Pearl Charles Blends Tribute and Innovation
January 20, 2021
With her third album, Magic Mirror, Los Angeles-born Pearl Charles upgrades 60’s and 70’s pop and soft-rock templates, exploring such perennial themes as loss, identity crisis, and relational flux. The project brims with unshakable hooks, ...
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The Magnetic Fields Offer a Masterclass in Pop Composition
May 20, 2020
The Magnetic Fields’ new album Quickies features twenty-eight tracks, the longest tune in the sequence lasting all of two minutes and thirty-three seconds. Many of the songs enroll a listener from the first note or ...
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Soccer Mommy Hones Melancholy Pop
February 26, 2020
With her 2018 debut, Clean, Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, interwove angsty lyrics and irresistible melodies, articulating themes of loss, dysfunction, and self-loathing via seductive hooks. Her latest album, Color Theory, illustrates a further honing of ...
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