Beyond Structures Envy’s Sound Continues to Swell and Swoon on Eunoia By Khee Hoon Chan • October 11th, 2024 Envy’s Eunoia is the pinnacle of the band’s sound all over again.
Beyond Structures Clockenflap 2023 Day 3: Running Youth, Otoboke Beaver, 9m88 and more By Khee Hoon Chan • February 9th, 2024 It’s day three of Clockenflap – and the final day of what is shaping up to be one of my favorite festival experiences.
Beyond Structures Clockenflap 2023 Day 2: Atarashii Gakko!, Omnipotent Youth Society and more By Khee Hoon Chan • January 30th, 2024 After grabbing an exorbitant hotdog from the festival grounds, which I paid around USD25 for, I continued on to some of the day two acts.
Beyond Structures Clockenflap 2023 Day 1: Uchu Yurei, Wang Wen, Envy, Yoasobi By Khee Hoon Chan • January 22nd, 2024 Clockenflap 2023 was three beautiful days long, and here are the highlights of the festival’s opening day.
Beyond Structures World’s End Girlfriend Composes Requiems For The End of Days By Khee Hoon Chan • December 7th, 2023 The music of World’s End Girlfriend, thankfully, resists the dichotomy of heightened emotional stakes versus the subdued lull of post-rock. Thus his melodies hardly, if ever, collapse under their immensity.
Feature Excerpt Still Fallen: The Delicious, Open World Mystique of Fallen London By Khee Hoon Chan • June 5th, 2020 Failbetter Games’ impeccable prose has kept this browser game alive for a decade now.
E-soterica The Quiet Sleep is a Messy and Emotional Tower Defense Game By Khee Hoon Chan • January 31st, 2020 Our emotions are messy and complex enough – perhaps the pared-down approach of The Quiet Sleep would help us confront – and sit with – the full spectrum of our human emotions.
E-soterica Attack of the Earthlings Bakes Humor Into Its Freakish DNA By Khee Hoon Chan • August 13th, 2019 Attack of the Earthlings wants to be a wise-cracking asshole and will keep tossing punchlines if that means you’ll continue to laugh your belly raw.
Navigating Through Grief in La Dispute’s Panorama By Khee Hoon Chan • May 16th, 2019 As an creative extension of their latest record Panorama, the post-hardcore outfit La Dispute released an ephemeral but evocative game that accompanies their music
E-soterica Broken Reality Represents The Drudgery of Internet Culture By Khee Hoon Chan • April 10th, 2019 What fuels Broken Reality’s bizarro universe is the same kick of dopamine we get from the positive feedback from social media.
