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Sunset Rollercoaster: The Sound of a Slow, Refreshing Love

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The best feeling in the world is discovering a new artist or a band that you absolutely cannot stop listening to, whose sound just makes you feel like you’re ascending! Thanks to my good friend who has a very similar music taste to mine, I ended up truly getting into Sunset Rollercoaster, a Taiwanese band that has grown incredibly popular on the scene. Their sound is just so relaxing and feel-good – I really enjoy listening to all of their music because it just makes me so happy! I’ve been thinking about making a post about their music for a while but was never sure how to structure it because I would just start yapping about how much I love them, but I decided I would write it now even if it does turn out to be just yapping. I mostly just listened to the Cassa Nova album so far and a few other songs, so my review may not be as extensive to cover their entire discography as yet! I am still discovering them! Funnily enough, I did not discover Sunset Rollercoaster through their original ...
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play with earth! 0.03 – On needing to come back to earth even when we are down-to-earth

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wave to earth’s shorter EPs focus on themes linked to nature and the elements, with the songs within each album often resembling a series of paintings. The evocative quality of their lyricism and sound always paints a picture or a scene in your mind when you listen to it!  Their previous two EPs, ‘wave 0.01’ and ‘summer flows 0.02’ were themed around fire and water respectively. ‘wave 0.01’ expresses entering the world with a burning sense of curiosity. Songs like ‘gold’ and ‘bird’ about finding one’s place in the world express this desire to find oneself and were a bold and glowing introduction to wave to earth. ‘summer flows 0.02,’ then, takes on a more contemplative theme as it reflects on the waves of life while floating through the sea. After this, I see ‘play with earth! 0.03’ as sharing two earthly themes. The first is about remaining down-to-earth , while the second is about coming back to earth after burning out in search of something more. In all, it’s about grounding on...
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Navigating the self in a challenging and polarised world: the rappers of BTS and their solo work

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As I listened to RM’s latest album, ‘Right Place, Wrong Person,’ I noticed an interesting pattern in the works that the rap-line of BTS have put out since going on a break to focus on their solo projects. RM (Kim Namjoon), SUGA (Min Yoongi, who goes by Agust D as a solo artist) and j-hope (Jung Hoseok) reflect on navigating themselves through a polarised world in which they are constantly under scrutiny. While I personally am not a rap fanatic, I really enjoy listening to the solo works of BTS’ rappers for their insightful lyricism and how they excellently tie their albums together to tell a clear story. With this post, I decided to focus on RM’s albums ‘Indigo (reviewed here )’ and ‘Right Place, Wrong Person,’ Agust D’s ‘D-Day (also reviewed here ),’ and j-hope’s ‘Jack in the box’ and ‘HOPE ON THE STREET VOL. 1.’  I divided the songs into three categories. In the first one, Namjoon, Yoongi and Hoseok reflect on the world they live in and the expectations that this world places on ...
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