Article 19

Category: Ripe Vinyl

  • Ripe Vinyl #11 | Rose-Colored Boy – Paramore

    “The album inspired me to stop trying to fit in and to like and do whatever it is that I want, and to be proud of it. The album aesthetics encouraged me to reconnect with my femininity—which was something I had been suppressing as I believed it to be degrading to be feminine—and to find… Read More

    5 minutes

  • Ripe Vinyl #10 | Born on the Bayou – Creedence Clearwater Revival

    When the words Creedence Clearwater Revival are spoken, one image undeniably stands out from all of the rest – The Vietnam War. The band might as well have been married to the War, considering the profound influence they drew from it and how they influenced the counter culture movement of the time. Born on the Read More

    4 minutes

  • Ripe Vinyl #9 | Juice – Lizzo

    There is something very different about my Spotify playlists now. They used to be dominated by your run-of-the-mill white alternative bands singing about liking or hating or breaking up with girls, accompanied by a borderline-cacophonous instrumental setup in the background. It sounds like I’m generalising (hit me with the Not All Bands, yo) but there Read More

    3 minutes

  • Ripe Vinyl #8 | Defying Gravity – Wicked the Musical

    Believe me, I know all that you have to say about Defying Gravity – a song that ran its course, a song that sticks in your head like a gnat of a memory. But hear me out. I might be 16 years too late to the discourse, but I say Defying Gravity is a feminist Read More

    4 minutes

  • Ripe Vinyl #7 | Whatsername – Green Day

    I was introduced to Green Day when I was maybe thirteen. One of my then closest friends, fifteen, had been badgering me to listen to some of the songs he liked. While most of them were pretty unmemorable (read: I don’t remember them), one of them, American Idiot, stuck with me. I spent the next Read More

    4 minutes

  • Ripe Vinyl #6 | Lemon – N.E.R.D and Rihanna

    America has always boasted of a vibrant and diverse musical scene, owing to the large number of ethnicities and communities that have made the country their home. New Orleans, located in the Southern state of Louisiana, is an example of a site of musical creation and evolution pioneered by its historically predominant African-American population. It Read More

    4 minutes

  • Ripe Vinyl #5 | Achilles Last Stand – Led Zeppelin

    (The four symbols representing the four members of Led Zeppelin taken from their fourth album – “Led Zeppelin IV”. From left to right – Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant.) I will be honest with you here, I am a Led Zeppelin fanatic, hence there are hardly any songs of theirs Read More

    5 minutes

  • Ripe Vinyl #4 | Almost Blue – Chet Baker

    The first time I heard this song was on a warm July afternoon. I was immediately struck by the lugubrious nature of the piece. The soft rhythm had an ethereal quality that was missing in the other covers I had chanced to listen to. The depth and clarity of each note caught my attention and Read More

    3 minutes

  • Ripe Vinyl #3 | Dreams – Fleetwood Mac

    Text and graphics by Naomi Karyamsetty.  Disclaimer: I’m not very fond of critical writing about music, and I’m bad at this lyric interpreting thing. So I’m a little bit of a hypocrite. Lorde once described Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours as the perfect record, so I count myself in good company. My friend and I would listen Read More

    2 minutes

  • Ripe Vinyl #2 | Anchor – Novo Amor

    Ripe Vinyl #2 (Song Review by Ashraya Maria) Though I discovered Novo Amor through an indie page on Instagram a few months ago, I began to explore their discography very recently. Anchor was something I stumbled upon, something which stuck. I found myself playing it over and over again, often half listening to lyrics I Read More

    3 minutes