Author: Brianna Anderson

Released in 2018, Rosalía’s second studio album, El Mal Querer, which translates into “The Bad Desire/Love,“ is an experimental flamenco pop album with a strong Arabic influence in the singing. Rosalía was a classically trained musician but began to experiment with genre-bending and is now locally known as the “Princess of Spain.” To attempt to… Continue reading “El Mal Querer” and Storytelling

Off, created by the Belgian team dubbed Unproductive Fun Time, is a French-language RPG that was released in 2008. In short, you play the game as the “puppeteer” of the game’s main character known as the Batter and aid him in his goal to purify the world. As the gameplay continues, you slowly begin to… Continue reading Moral Ambiguity Through Sound in “Off”

I happened upon this album a few months ago for the first time and it ultimately drew me in. In short, its a musical that’s plot has been debated for over a decade. Personally, I see it as the story of a man who travels to Hawaii, gets implicated for a murder, pleads insanity, then… Continue reading Production and Cool Stuff in “Hawaii: Part II”

As the first story I listened to began, entitled: To R.P Salazar, with Love, an upbeat acoustic instrumental track played as the opening credits and exposition were shown on screen. The music faded out slowly as the animation and story began. The most prominent thing I noticed about the recording was that there were few… Continue reading Love and Grief