Ewy "World Is Mine" (2020)

Ewy is an artist that showed up on my Spotify Weekly a while ago and hooked me in with his melodramatic voice, British accent and sad guitar playing, it all mad me reminiscent of Crywank, The Front Bottoms or even Park national which are all bands I quite enjoy. This isn't the only aspect of that makes this small indie folk punk artist so enjoyable though.

This record is special to me because of it's big emotional impact, it felt strangely personal which is the result of this album being written in lockdown, it's presence of which has undoubtedly affected all of us and is something we can all relate to. Other topics of this album include failed relationships and his disappointment in the world in general, you know, typical folk punk stuff.

In a total of 12 songs and 30 minutes Ewy manages to capture all these topics perfectly via his sad British voice, sounding more like a rant than singing, this isn't a bad thing though, this and his acoustic guitar cause for his perfect capturing of the folk punk aesthetic Ewy is obviously aiming for. With poppy influences on these songs and fun but unique lyrics these tracks manage to stay in your head for weeks on end. Especially 'Itch' and 'Jewelry And Teeth' do this intricate mix well, they're fun songs with a way deeper meaning when you actually look at the lyrics.

Not only is Ewy a really great artist he's also a really fun and nice person to hang around with, he's often active in his Discord Server and I've often hung around with him in voice chats, he's really cool and likeable person.

9/10

Wilbur ''Your City Gave Me Asthma'' (2020)

 Listening to this album always manages to get me in the feels, it's an incredibly therapeutic one with it's Singer-songwriter genre and sad emotional tones, I discovered this record because Wilbur Soot is actually an entertainer on YouTube as well, hearing this for the first time right after I had binged some of his content struck me hard, how did someone so jolly sing something so sad.

Back when Wilbur used to live in London he quickly got disgusted by it's environment, the city quite literally gave him asthma and the scarily high mortality rates on the undergrounds made him sick, this album was him expressing his distaste for it all which is why it's so emotional, London ate away at his mental health throughout his stay, luckily he's moved away since then.

Like I mentioned before, the singer-songwriter style fits perfectly with the tone of this record, simple guitar progressions and on occasional tracks some brass instruments. His soft voice combined with very faint harmonics and supporting vocals really drive home the idea that this was all recorded in a bedroom by someone fresh out of college.

8/10