Mesmer Music !

It's Music  !

Welcome to Mesmer Music   !  We really like music, & we listen to a lot of it- enough to need a home for the deep dives into the many layers of the musical landscape while we search for the best and beautiful of it. Here, we delve into every sound, lyric, artist, scene, & subgenre, sharing our reviews, curated playlists, deep cuts, background knowledge and insights. Freely browse our dedicated sections covering  topics such as the crafted defining characteristics that uniquely distinguish individual artists and scenes (like how the sweet-and-sour fuzz of shoegaze blurs the line between noise and lullaby by treating guitars as a liquid instrument, or reverse reverb to make sound feel physical,) how artists respond to musical legacies in their own work, and the history and evolution of various music scenes and their powerful influences (and why we think The Velvet Underground hated sunny 1960's West Coast Psychedelia so deeply.) From cultural factors and current trends, to artist personal lives and inspirations (Oh, Frances Ha.) As long as the never-ending search for the best of the best continues, we'll be here to house it.