The Magic Conch

I really started appreciating different music genres a couple of years ago. I have been attempting to keep up with the new types of music that have started to become popular while also trying to catch up with what I missed when I was too young to realize that Radio Disney wasn’t going to keep my attention forever. Alternative music really caught my eye in 2012. As soon as I heard Muse’s new album for that year, I knew I was going to be tuning into alternative radio stations instead of playing the Motley Crue mix CD that my mom made for me in middle school. Ever since then, I have tried extra hard to keep up with the alternative charts. I recently took the time to listen to “I Like it When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It” by The 1975.             This is the second album that The 1975 has released, and it was released February of 2016. The lead single, “Love Me” can be heard on many different local rad...

            I finally sat down to listen to David Bowie’s last album, Blackstar. It’s hard to objectively listen to this album without having some sort of bias because of the emotions that a typical music lover has since the death of one of the most unique musical artists of all time. Everyone knows that Bowie will be missed, but with all the mourning going on, is anyone actually analyzing the Blackstar, or are we just holding onto the last piece of art from Mr. Bowie? Blackstar was the 25 th and final album that David Bowie gave the world. The album was released on January 8 of 2016, which was two days before his death. Bowie was battling cancer during the making of this album, which makes his fans respect this experimental rock music even more than usual. Blackstar sold 146,000 copies in its first week on sale in the United Kingdom and more than 181,000 in the United States. The album has many similarities to Bowie’s other work, but still sho...

             In the past couple of years, electronic pop music has become more and more enjoyed by lovers of alternative and pop music. The band CHVRCHES recently released a new album, Every Eye Open, on the 25 th of this past September. The album consists of 15 electronic songs, one of which has become very popular on many radio stations. The album has a very light feeling which makes it easy to listen to the whole thing all the way through without wanting to put your iPod on shuffle. This is relaxing, but the songs still have deep and meaningful lyrics that are refreshing. In “Make Them Gold”, the listener hears “We are made of our longest days. We are falling but not alone. We will take the best parts of ourselves. And make them gold.”             All of the songs sound somewhat similar, but the listener is still able to tell the songs apart with their distinct parts. In “Never Ending...