Louis Pelingen

Treble • June 19th, 2026

Feeble Little Horse : bitknot - Treble

Since the band’s inception in 2021, Feeble Little Horse have remained tight-knit and straightforward in their musical approach. Their debut album, that same year’s Hayday, swoops into the gusto of noisy guitar riffs and percussion blasts paralleled by Lydia Slocum’s deadpan delivery. It’s rough around the edges, but it doesn’t wash over the band’s melodic verve. They enhanced this approached further through 2023’s Girl with Fish, dialing up the production and bringing more textural detail to the...

The Line of Best Fit • June 12th, 2026

Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love review - sharpest songwriting to date

The album opener, “drop dead”, states that clearly, even incorporating a natural shift towards synth-pop sheen that builds the crescendo with gusto. Rodrigo sounds charmingly lovestruck with her performance, fully engaged with her affection for her lover as she’s endeared with his love for The Cure, stalks him on the internet, and would “drop dead” when he kisses her entirely.

It might be a simple tale at first, but she paints her journey of love with layers, adding lyrical details that expose...

Northern Transmissions • January 16th, 2026

Peaer - Doppelgänger - Northern Transmissions

7 years have passed since peaer released their last record A Healthy Earth. Time has changed peaer, now fully coming back on Doppelganger as a way to reestablish themselves as a band. It goes over a sonically straightforward approach for sure, but it’s a refinement all the same.What happened after peaer released A Healthy Earth in 2019 has been focused more on changes needed to keep themselves afloat. With COVID and continuous hiccups in the music space hampering their overall careers as musicia...

The Line of Best Fit • October 31st, 2025

Anna Von Hausswolff: ICONOCLASTS review - invigorating faith

Yet, on the first few notes of “Facing Atlas”, Anna von Hausswolff voraciously charges right through the unknown. Her vocals come in resounding around post-rock soars. “Can’t we just run away / It’s no fun to stay / Can’t we just break free from ourselves?” she reflects. Her spirit comes unwavering.
Progressing past the drone and neo-classical experiments of her previous records, ICONOCLASTS pulls back the curtains and opens a shift in Anna von Hausswolff’s overall musical makeup. She endeavours...

September 7th, 2025

Yetsuby – 4EVA

Music is filled with technicalities, but once stripped away, it is a beautiful, creative playground. In such a space, one does not have to worry about accentuating certain notes or aspects. The emotions are what matter. Play into all the tones, textures, and rhythms in a way that best flutters our hearts. Important pieces that enrich a wistful connection within each and every one.After constructing streams of clubby IDM on her past two projects, Yetsuby – also known as Yejin Yang – decides to ta...

August 14th, 2025

SOUNDS OF THE SEA: jorud (Singapore) – TFL

Singaporean musician Jared Lim has been playing a significant role in various mainstay acts over the past couple of years, whether in his local country or elsewhere. Being the guitarist and producer of bands like Sobs and Subsonic Eye, as well as providing production assistance for Blush and The Purest Blue are just some of those notable credits. His ear for production sticks in your ear once you hear it: blissful synth chops, colorful instrumental mixes, and crisp vocal emphasis. A balancing ac...

POST-TRASH • May 15th, 2025

Thanya Iyer - "TIDE/TIED" | Album Review — POST-TRASH

by Louis Pelingen (@Ruke256)Throughout her entire career, Thanya Iyer’s music has always carried the essence of healing, cherishing the gradual process of meditation that translates to her compositions and performances. Her band’s experimentation across jazz, pop, and folk never fails to be soothing in its free-flowing way, building an atmosphere that invites a positive spirit and emphasizes thoughtfulness to not just the individual but also the community that surrounds them. Even in a world tha...

April 23rd, 2025

ALBUM REVIEW: WAIIAN – BACKSHOTS – TFL

Written by Louis Pelingen


There’s always this itching frustration that comes with Waiian’s overall projects, as there lingers a big potential for him to put out something striking that, unfortunately, has the habit of casually evading, where as much as he can exude this brand of charisma that’s effortless and easy to listen to, his records never take the next step of breaking out of its comfort zone. Relying upon the relaxed vibes to a fault that the overall solid set of production, writing,...

Review Side Docket • October 4th, 2024

Album Review: Geordie Greep - The New Sound

When Black Midi eventually broke up just this year, as much as there is a deep sadness about how this band broke apart, there is now an excitingly grand anticipation on where the members will head in the future - especially with how their massive talented pedigree has been a big boon to them ever since they’ve started back in 2019, something that only got more bewilderingly delightful with every subsequent album, eventually leading to cementing themselves as one of the most hyped bands in the UK...

Merry-Go-Round Magazine • September 27th, 2024

Bandcamp Picks: Disphing & Forgotten Warmth Becomes Dust - MGRM

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring Forgotten Warmth Becomes Dust’s varied and textured self-titled house EP and the Disphing’s fiery glitch pop album HREF!

Forgotten Warmth Becomes Dust – S/T
Genre: Downtempo, Trip Hop, Speed House
Favorite Tracks: “Purgatory on Earth,” “Chamomile”
A cascading, riveting downpour of beatific house music, FORGOTTEN WARMTH BECOMES DUST is the key to sink into that seraphic soundscape. The self-titled EP from the Brooklyn duo of singer-songwriter Nailoh...