Shaad D’Souza

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Shaad D’Souza

Coachella is, undeniably, the single most important music festival in the world. Take “important” with a heavy side of scepticism: it is important as a mainstream pop cultural and public relations engine, an easy way to work out which stars of contemporary music are actually drawing crowds, who might be in a larger typeface size on the poster this time next year and who truly blew up in the six months between the festival’s line-up announcement and the event actually taking place.

1 week ago | pitchfork.com | Shaad D’Souza

“Tell me I never knew that” is a digital anthem in Eden. English folk music has always been used to chart the slow trickle of societal change, tracing shifting norms, the rise and fall of new powers, and the modernisation of the landscape; this song, a collaboration with Caroline Polachek from the English band caroline’s forthcoming album, Caroline 2, feels like it might be one day used as evidence of a society undergoing a rapid flattening.

3 weeks ago | i-d.co | Shaad D’Souza

You know what grinds my gears? Despite infinite advancements in digital distribution and recording, the making and releasing of music is basically the same now as it was 20 years ago. You make an album, you promote the album, you tour the album, then you do it all again. With a little ingenuity and gumption, though, you can do whatever the fuck you want.

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Shaad D’Souza

Bands will always sound like this: jangly and raw, infatuated with their own youth, terribly and vaguely romantic, tripping over themselves in their haste to convey a botanic garden’s worth of full-bloom feelings. Radio DDR, the second album by Sharp Pins (the solo project of Lifeguard’s Kai Slater) is a giddy blast of power pop that understands, deeply, that the genre’s only goal should be to make age-old feelings like love and longing sound thrilling and new.

1 month ago | i-d.co | Morgan Maher |Shaad D’Souza

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