Category: THE ARCHIVE

  • THE ARCHIVE: katie MAC – screen
    THE ARCHIVE: katie MAC – screen

    It’s 2:34am as you lay in bed staring at your ceiling. The LED mood lighting you bought on Amazon is tinted a deep magenta as you stare longingly through your phone. The display of your phone flashes photo after photo of your ex, who despite how much you pretend you are not over, and in…

  • THE ARCHIVE: s8fespace – THEY ALL DIE IN THE END

    I found this song too early. Like way too early. Being an early adopter is one of the greatest joys you can have as an avid music listener and I’m not one to take that for granted, but I will also be the first to tell you that there’s a huge difference between stumbling upon…

  • THE ARCHIVE: Batya Belle – Addiction + Thinking Right

    The fun part about doing music journalism is that nobody gets to call you biased. When writing about music all of the silly little words I put on this page are subjective to begin with regardless of how much I frame them as fact, which is kind of a free pass for me to tell…

  • THE ARCHIVE: pnkdrco & Blulone – move on!

    Did you wake up this morning and think to yourself, “wow my playlist is absolutely phenomenal, but it’s really missing a song that starts by making me think I forgot to leave a discord call”? If you did, please get help, but I by some bizarre means have something to fill your needs move on!…

  • THE ARCHIVE: bodyimage – ratking
    THE ARCHIVE: bodyimage – ratking

    It has become a recurring concern of mine that I have set too broad a precedent for the kinds of music I want to talk about on AuraLink. Creating a blog with the intent to boost smaller artists is one thing, but I really have just been writing about anything I like regardless of consistency,…

  • THE ARCHIVE: Saila – So Far
    THE ARCHIVE: Saila – So Far

    At this current moment in time, I am sitting alone on my bed with a single earbud in with one goal for my evening: to write as many articles as possible. I had an order of operations in mind as well: Write an article about Olga Myko, then one about ratking by bodyimage, then gamble…

  • THE ARCHIVE: Kukielle – KILL4ME
    THE ARCHIVE: Kukielle – KILL4ME

    Let’s set the scene: you are sitting on your couch doomscrolling through TikTok when all of a sudden from next to you you hear a voice. “Hey babe?” utters your loving partner. As you begin to respond you mentally prepare for what question may follow this. Based of their social feeds you assume the obvious,…

  • THE ARCHIVE: Darling I Dreamt & EMiDORA – Severed Ties 2.0

    Saying that my Spotify algorithm doesn’t know what I want would be a horrific understatement of my current predicament. I’ve slowly been building a mental catalog of artists making this post-hyperpop blend of clean production with juuuust enough grit to keep my brain tingling, but much to the detriment of that search Spotify only seems…

  • THE ARCHIVE: gottsy – rot (+ forest fire)
    THE ARCHIVE: gottsy – rot (+ forest fire)

    If there are 2 things I say repeatedly to the extent that I get tuned out by those around me, its that: If you’re not a music producer or chronically into niche internet genres, that second point may make zero sense to you, so let me elaborate a bit. rot was the first single released…

  • THE ARCHIVE: MISSY – Cage
    THE ARCHIVE: MISSY – Cage

    When listening to a label backed artist (think Blackbear, the weekend, huge names) we’re often greeted with songs polished to perfection by at times 10s of different people from producers to mix and mastering engineers and god knows who else. With small artists, the situation is a tad different, with the crew shrinking to a…