Lav's Music Corner

Review by Lavender: Weatherday is the emo and noise pop project of Swedish singer-songwriter Sputnik. The project first received quite a bit of attention online in the months following their 2019 debut Come In , which in the years since has developed a pretty substantial cult following. While Sputnik has remained busy with various collaborations and side projects in that time, Hornet Disaster  is the long-awaited sophomore Weatherday album. With a 76-minute runtime spread across 19 tracks, the album gives long-time fans plenty to chew on for however long it takes until Weatherday eventually returns again.  If you've paid any attention to my TikTok or Twitter, or even came to the release party I hosted for Hornet Disaster  last week, then you already know I'm a big Weatherday fan. And in the lead up to this record I became more and more excited with the release of pretty much every song. In one way or another dating all the way back to 2022, 7 songs in total had been relea...

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...

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...