#isolation

Tobias the Owl Explores Isolation and Healing on "Visalia"

What do you hear in your head when the world goes silent? This was the question Elijah Dhavvan of Seattle band Tobias the Owl set out to answer with his third full-length album Visalia. The question was originally posed in reference to a period in Dhavvan's past when he felt significantly isolated,...

Alexa Peters

TRACK OF THE WEEKProtomartyr "Scum, Rise!"

Hooray for being angry as fuck! Hooray for growling, depressive post punk! Hooray for creating a dystopian musical landscape that mirrors your hometown! "Scum, Rise!" doesn't just get at a superbly timed sense of anxiety--with all that compulsively fast strumming and all those bleak lyrics--it also...

Carena Liptak