Articles by Rell Kapae

7/10, will listen to again. Hummer is the essence of one of The Smashing Pumpkin's most popular albums, Siamese Dream. It starts off with a lucrative intro that introduces a sense of "This song isn't meaningless noise". With Billy Corgan's incredible and unique singing style, James Iha's amazing...

8/10 Toadies' album Rubberneck, is an artistic masterpiece. It combines themes of everyday life, depression, joy and all aspects of human nature. The artistic genius and effort that this album took was massive, which is what partly made this album so popular. Vaden Todd Lewis' perfect vocals and...

9/10 Highly Suspect is a relatively new band. Although forming in 2009, their first official album was released in 2015. Highly Suspect has a knack with music. In their two studio albums, they have created 3 masterpieces: "Lydia" in 2015, My "Name is Human" in 2017 and "Little One" in 2017...

7/10 The Lumineers are notorious for their soft, but well crafted music. The song "Ophelia" off of the album "Cleopatra" is a great example of how the Lumineers make music. Amazing vocals from Jeremiah Fraites paired with perfectly timed piano, which makes for a sort of rhythmic cascade of pure...

8/10 Incubus has rocked millions with their So-Cal style rock jams that are typically revered for their songs like "Drive" and "Stellar". Many people don't look any further into this band because they believe that they are sort of an RHCP rip off. They aren't. Many of their old albums contain...

7/10 Tame Impala, which I discovered recently, creates music in a way that makes it seem like it's mimicking the newer music by RHCP, or RHCP is mimicking them. They have a very similar style, but tame impala seems to be "more original" and just sounds more fluid, creating a...

8/10 Pepper, a band to remember. A band that never got too popular, although I believe that their laid back style, amazing vocals and similarities to their inspiration, Sublime, should've brought them fame. One of their earlier albums, Kona Town, is filled with simplistic yet emotion bringing...