Lav's Music Corner

The EP is a format I've often explored on this channel with the intention of finding breaking artists on their earliest work. While that is also normally mixed in with a handful of more established and polished artists who wanted to dip their toes into the EP pool, I can name dozens of artists I loved who I first covered on this blog with the release of early EPs. This year, however, that wasn't necessarily the case. The theme of this list is more about side projects, artists going solo, collaborations, and just a vibrant and exciting collection of little projects where beloved names do something entirely new. It made the process of listening to all of these projects, ordering them, and writing the list itself a rewarding creative challenge that resulted in a collection of boundary-pushing projects that I'm happy to be recommending.  10. The Other Side  - Ruth Radalet The former frontwoman of Chromatics finally debuted as a solo artist this year, but she isn't necessari...

Paraglow  - Parannoul & Asian Glow This is the new collaborative project from two artists whose EP wells I've already dipped into in 2022. Parannoul's breakout album To See The Next Part Of The Dream  was one of my favorite releases of 2021 and I was craving new music so badly I reviewed both the Parannoul ambient side project Mydreamfever's album Rough And Beautiful Place  and the B-Sides EP that followed it with leftover tracks from Dream . Asian Glow on the other hand is dipping back into the well of collaborative EPs with recent breakout internet core artists after dropping the very solid Weatherglow  collaboration with Weatherday earlier this year. Given that I enjoyed that project a lot and I love Parannoul this felt like a slam dunk. Unfortunately, no matter how much I listen to the opening track Hand  I'm just not crazy about it. Even compared to the B-sides dropped earlier this year it just sounds too much like a song that wouldn't have made the cu...

While every album is talked about on the internet these days there is no denying that some get their acclaim from a more grassroots level. This trio of releases come from artists who have fervent defenders online, me included. I wanted to review all of them in full but it's been a busy year so I decided to just quickly cover them here before I'm even more late than I already am. Enjoy <3 Weatherglow EP - Weatherday & Asian Glow I've been excited for pretty much anything Sputnik, AKA Weatherday does under any of their side projects. While a collaborative EP may not be the exact thing fans were highly anticipating post- Come In  I still think it's an opportunity for some really cool music. Asian Glow is another beloved underground noisy lo-fi artist who collaborated with Parannoul last year and is now checking Weatherday off of the internet-core heroes list. Seriously though I was really excited to hear this and it pretty much lived up to my expectations. You'l...