For Japanese American songwriter Lea Thomas, indie folk serves as a bridge in which she makes sense of the world within herself and within nature. Her first record, Want For Nothing, saw Thomas utilizing an honest approach to folk for self-reflection, while 2018’s acoustic Part Of This Place EP and 2019’s ambient-folk collaboration Blue of […]
If you ask me where I’m from, I’ll say Alhambra. If you have the nerve to ask me where I’m really from, I’ll tell you, “I was born in Los Angeles. My parents immigrated to the United States from the Philippines if that’s what you’re really asking.” The latter inquiry was a real question posed […]
The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China. Starting at the Bayan Har Mountains in the Qinghai province, it flows east through nine provinces and empties into the Bohai Sea. Huang He, as it’s also known, is the world’s most silted river, estimated to have flooded over 1,500 times since the 2nd century BCE. […]
I’ve known Soft Blue Shimmer for a relatively short amount of time (or forever if we’re considering 2020 time). My first exposure to them came from Gaby Chiongbian’s kaleidoscopic picture of the band playing the Echoplex way back in February (almost a lifetime ago). “Surely this band must sound as dreamy as Gaby’s picture,” I […]
Sometimes (or a lot of the time, if you’re an INFP like me), retreating to your imagination is a delightful act of release. To be able to escape the building responsibilities and pressures set in reality by indulging in moments of idealized memories, worlds, and possibilities is liberating. pop songs 2020, the surprise EP from […]