Clare Martin

1 week ago | pastemagazine.com | Clare Martin

I got homesick easily as a child. Even a slumber party at a friend’s house could plunge me into a sea of yearning for my home that was—and I kid you not—a 10-minute drive from where I was sleeping. I always imagined that homesick feeling as a cold eggshell forming around my heart—not numbing me, exactly, but preserving that sense of home while shutting out everything else. The result was a sort of a remove, an at-arms-length experience of whatever was going on around me.

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Clare Martin

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The last time I saw Irish post-punks M(h)aol play, the room was so packed that people were practically standing on top of each other. It was April of 2023, only a couple of months after the band released their excellent debut record Attachment Styles via TULLE (later re-released on Merge Records), which tackled everything from biphobia to period sex to the importance of having a family dog.

1 month ago | pastemagazine.com | Clare Martin

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. BLONDSHELL’S NEW ALBUM IS IN no way a sonic shift from her celebrated self-titled debut; instead If You Asked For A Picture is a cohesive follow-up, the subsequent chapter in a book or the next snapshot tucked away in a scrapbook.

1 month ago | pastemagazine.com | Clare Martin

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT THE halcyon days early on in a relationship, when you and your paramour don’t know that much about each other, except that you want to spend all your time together. Around every corner is a mystery—What was their childhood like? Did they go to camp as a kid? Do they get along with their family? What were they like in college?—and those question marks keep us coming back for more.

2 months ago | pastemagazine.com | Clare Martin

Brian and Michael D’Addario dropped their fifth album as the Lemon Twigs, A Dream Is All We Know, only last year, so it feels like a quick turnaround for the former to release his debut solo record. However, most of the songs on Brian’s album Till the Morning have been floating around for some time now, just waiting for the right home. “These were tunes that piled up over the years but when I started putting the album together, it really hung together musically and thematically.