Sjimon Gompers

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PREMIERE | Hectorine, "Everybody Says" — Week in Pop

3 weeks ago | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

One of the most hyped Bay Area records of 2025 wraps itself in heavy motifs of tribulations and transformations. Borrowing from Mesopotamian lore, the album's set dressings harken back to a story about a goddess discovering the chthonic realm whilst making her descent through the seven gates of the underworld.
PREMIERE | Myriads, "5 a.m." — Week in Pop

1 month ago | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

That peculiar point where night and morning meet together like clasped hands in congress, like a shared prayer, is something special and sublime. They conjure up a restlessness that has no time for sleep, regardless of what degree of exhaustion is at play, entertaining an electrified mind and heart that is insomniatic, energized, infatuated, and enthralled by the essence of a cherished fellow spirit.
PREMIERE | Belted Sweater, self-titled — Week in Pop

2 months ago | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

It is no exaggeration that we are living through some wildly erratic to outright unstable times. As the fabrics of infrastructure, securities, and society feel on the brink of totally collapse; collectively we feel a sense of unease.
PREMIERE | MAN LEE, "Wind" — Week in Pop

2 months ago | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

No matter the direction of the breeze, the unrelenting elements of nature and all their shifting patterns interact with our modern phases and places. The steady and stirring drum beats of time march their ways through the maelstrom of snow, rain, sleet, and sun as the might of nature flexes its omnipotent powers through disastrous displays of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, atmospheric rivers, and other such astounding acts.
PREMIERE | Ambergrove, "stills" — Week in Pop

2 months ago | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

The faculties of the senses have the power to take us places. A certain aroma reminds us of the way a long lost friend’s home smelled from years and years past, or how a sound can remind us of a book’s worth of memories, a taste can take us to the dinner table of notable moments shared with lost loved ones, to the way our vision can discover similarities in the semiotics of persons, places, and other assorted things.
PREMIERE | simmcat, "Always" — Week in Pop

2 months ago | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

Beneath the actions and entanglements that comprise the chapters of life, the inner exchanges and negotiations that we make with ourselves. Inside the palaces of our consciousness we confront ourselves and examine the epistemological origin trails of our states of the union. The dance and dialogue that takes place from within is something of a shadow play to the outside engagements we have with our fellow folks and environments.
Jetstream Pony, "Bubblegum Nothingness" — Week in Pop

2 months ago | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

Happiness and joy is about opening up your heart, soul, and self to new ideas. Embracing the prospects of jubilant possibilities serves as one of the best antidotes to the onslaught of counterproductive noise and negativity that can consume us to the core (if personal boundaries are not properly asserted).
PREMIERE | Ella Hue, "War" (Round) — Week in Pop

Jan 23, 2025 | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

Conflicts consume us. They exist within us, and all around us. The antiquated literary tropes of antagonists and protagonists are the diametrically opposed matter that propel the narratives of the sciences, the machines of unchecked political prowess, and all the things that flood the newsrooms, the fodder that lines the columns of yellowing front and back pages to the funny papers.
PREMIERE | Get Lost Cassidy Frost, 'Live In Private' — Week in Pop

Jan 22, 2025 | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

Live in Private offers a privy view into the cozy and humble home recorded aura that is the hallmark and stylistic signature of Get Lost Cassidy Frost. "Pop Pop Pop" wrestles with the romanticism and infatuation scored like a dearly beloved record played to the point of obsession everywhere, during all times of the day, and loud late at night.
PREMIERE | Eliot Eidelman, "Swallow Bird" — Week in Pop

Dec 4, 2024 | weekinpop.com | Sjimon Gompers

Many a wide-eyed purveyor of the world's vast landscapes has postulated about the numerous tales, arts, visions and so on created by the road rolling wanderers. Something that has become a trope across the globe is the construct of the drifter that is experiencing the world in its rawest and most combustible form.