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Lunar album cover provided by Spotify.

'Lunar' is the perfect portrayal of grief

“Lunar” by In Distance is an incredible album portraying the artist’s experience of grieving someone. He conveys this with the album's progression, the album’s rhetoric and lyrics, and the incredible emotional response the album provokes. Overall, Indy took a serious topic and portrayed it in all the right ways.




In our restless dreams…we go back, to that town, 'Silent Hill 2'

Bloober Team’s remake of iconic Silent Hill 2 is near a masterpiece. It might not achieve the same status as the original, but the game builds upon the foundations of what Team Silent originally designed over two decades ago, giving players, new and old, a fresh lens through which to experience the sorrowfully psychological story of James Sunderland. Any fan of the franchise should look to this game as the potential that the franchise isn’t dead—that hope may yet still reside within the town of Silent Hill.



Taken from Bandcamp

Hippo Campus’ fourth album is flooding with heart

Hippo Campus flaunts a new, mature sound with Flood with one of their best tracklists yet. From down-to-earth admissions of faults, to hopeful inspiration, each song has something to say, leading to one of the band’s best releases.


Taken from SoundCloud

Dirt Man: a modern-day folklore phenomenon

Drawing connections between traditional storytelling and the participatory nature of TikTok, this article highlights how users have creatively reimagined the Dirt Man myth, expanding it through user-generated content.


History of: Tim Burton

Tim Burton has had a long career, spanning several decades, reaching the height of becoming a household name with successful and artistic films under his belt. But with every crescendo, comes the diminuendo of the fall. Though as Burton has once again broken free of Disney, there comes the hope of a rising second act, like a corpse rising from the grave.