French musician Melody Prochet, better known as Melody’s Echo Chamber, released Unclouded on December 5, 2025 via Domino Recording Company. If you don’t count her ‘lost’ compilation record of early rejected works (which, quite frankly, you should), this is Prochet’s fourth studio album in her critically celebrated discography. Although Unclouded captures the same ethereal, overlapping… Continue reading Unclouded: Melody’s Echo Chamber plays it safe
Two EPs From Two Up-and-coming Indie Producers: Genuine Uppers Life and ANTERIOR POSTERIOR
The immaterial nature of digital audio and its ease of transmission through the internet has led to increasingly short, scattered habits of releasing music amongst Gen Z and millennial artists. It’s within this context that we turn to two recent EPs, Genuine Uppers Life by Sacred holes and ANTERIOR POSTERIOR by w/lson. Together, they don’t… Continue reading Two EPs From Two Up-and-coming Indie Producers: Genuine Uppers Life and ANTERIOR POSTERIOR
Recording Review: Anxious by Nell Smith
On April 11 Nell Smith released Anxious, an entry into the indie pop genre that is both bright and eclectic. Though covered in a sparkling gleam, the debut album comes after Smith’s tragic passing last October in a car accident at the age of seventeen. In her time here she used her unending work ethic,… Continue reading Recording Review: Anxious by Nell Smith
Lights Up on Legally Blonde
As the spring 2025 semester comes to a close, the Oberlin Musical Theater Association (OMTA) will present Legally Blonde, a musical version of the 2001 movie. The show, which follows sorority girl Elle Woods during her first year at Harvard Law School, opens on May 2 in Wilder Main. I sat down with lighting designer… Continue reading Lights Up on Legally Blonde
Recording Review: Horizons by MaiaLuna
On March 28, the singer-songwriter Maia Luna Munichiello (MaiaLuna) released her second album, Horizons. The album’s sound is gentle and folksy, perfect for staring out a window at some light rain. The instrumentation is mostly based around MaiaLuna’s acoustic guitar, with soft synths and strings to fill out the background. She uses minimal vibrato, and… Continue reading Recording Review: Horizons by MaiaLuna
Viagra Boys: viagr aboys Review
Viagra Boys might be the most earnest trolls in rock music today, if such a superlative could exist. The Swedish dance-punk group have already made a name for themselves in three albums of irony-soaked commentary and insincerely cerebral meditations on the most random social topics imaginable. Petty theft, fast food, learning disorders, promethazine party culture:… Continue reading Viagra Boys: viagr aboys Review
Indie-Pop Meets Psychedelia — The Crux by Djo
Did you know Steve Harrington records music? Wait, sorry, not Steve, the guy who plays Steve. While known to most as the actor for jerk-turned-heartthrob Steve Harrington on the Netflix series “Stranger Things,” Joe Keery is known to those in the music scene as the cleverly-monikered Djo — pronounced “Joe.” Get it? Keery has been quietly… Continue reading Indie-Pop Meets Psychedelia — The Crux by Djo
Review: Video Game Cover Collective
When the subject of music is brought up at Oberlin, the conversation often centers on the conservatory. While this part of the institution merits attention, the bustling and innovative music scene within the college certainly should not go unrecognized. On April 29 at the Cat in the Cream, the Video Game Cover Collective (VGCC) made… Continue reading Review: Video Game Cover Collective
Bloodless: A Literary Analysis
If we’ve learned one thing over the course of three albums, it’s that Samia makes music you have to read. In fact, you might as well sit down with a pen and annotate it like you’re in an upper-level poetry seminar. April 25th marked the release of Bloodless, which Minneapolis-based musician Samia Finnerty has cited… Continue reading Bloodless: A Literary Analysis
Recording Review: SABLE, fABLE by Bon Iver
Bon Iver is undeniably a legend in many ways. Their 2007 debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, has been linked to the resurgence of acoustic folk in the mainstream. Despite serving as the inspiration for subsequent decades of songwriters who have ventured into the woods to record their albums, lead musician Justin Vernon has always been… Continue reading Recording Review: SABLE, fABLE by Bon Iver
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