Critic
June Mercer
Interested in heartbreak records, cult singles, and albums that turn personal melodrama into spectacle.
WebsiteReviews by June Mercer
OSSER / PUNCTURE (Single Version)
OSSER Turn a Wound Into Packaging on PUNCTURE (Single Version)
The expanded single version has force, texture, and several useful angles on one song, but it also exposes how quickly a sharp idea can become merchandise when the variations stop arguing with the original.
5.8
LRON / Twelve AM (from Beautiful Night DELUXE)
Twelve AM Glows Prettily Outside the Album That Needed It
Twelve AM glowed naturally inside Beautiful Night. Pulled out into its own frame, the glow is easier to inspect and harder to mistake for depth.
6.3
LRON / Beautiful Night
Beautiful Night Is the Rare Pop Universe That Feels Lived In
Beautiful Night could have collapsed under its own lights. Instead, LRON makes the night feel inhabited, as if every hook were a window with somebody still awake behind it.
9.0