Foxy Digitalis
The first moments of Office Culture’s “Open Up Your First” video drop us into a surrealist, almost disorienting vision. It’s off-putting in a way, but impossible to ignore, especially against the song’s romping cadence and Winston Cook-Wilson’s. Gilded melodies glide atop the winding clatter echoing the shapeshifting narrative in Madison Bloom’s video. Urgency grows in […]
Frank Meadows made one of my favorite ‘singer-songwriter’ records of 2022 with Dead Weight, and further, contributed so much great music to the world with label he helps run, Dear Life Records. Frank and I had been talking about him doing a mix for a while, but life kept interfering with the timing of it, […]
Office Culture’s new album, Big Time Things, takes us over a cliff in the gentlest possible way. Even if the landing is soft, though, it still stings. It’s a pristine album, a crystalization of the band’s approach leading up to this point. Winston Cook-Wilson’s ‘Great Vocal Performances’ mix sheds a different light on the album. Big Time […]
An emotional cliff looms on the second single from Office Culture’s forthcoming Big Time Things. Worst-case scenarios are repeating mantras in our tired minds, but what happens once we give in? Flickering keyboard motifs draw distracted shapes in the transient skies as Winston Cook-Wilson traces the psychic steps through exposed memory fields and buried fears. Emotive […]