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Pearly Drops is an alternative-electric band most known for their songs “Bloom for Me” and “Call for Help” from their 2020 album “Call for Help.” (Photo courtesy of Juuso Malin)

Drifting through the clairvoyance of melody, the only shadow of reality left stretching over me are the dollar-store AirPods knockoffs in my ears. Transported to a familiar dimension through euphony, I float through the hypnotic haze cushioned by my carefully crafted playlist. Nothing else matters in this state, nothing can hurt me; the only thing of significance to me at this moment is what song will come next on shuffle. This is the power of comfort music.

Everyone has a comfort song or artist. Maybe you uncovered a hidden gem while listening to your “Discover Weekly” playlist on Spotify and you’ve relentlessly listened ever since. Maybe your comfort song stems from your childhood when your mother would blast Alice In Chains and Modest Mouse while speeding to drop you off at grammar school (Just me? Oh, okay). Whatever music you may take solace in, every person retains a selection of tunes that calm their nerves and ease their mind like no other: an easy escape route from negative thoughts of…

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Why Everyone Will Be Embracing Casual Comfort This Season

When was the last time you got up and thought to yourself, “right, let’s strap on a corset”, or “hmm, I’ll wear a barely-there dress today”? Unless you were born after 1997, chances are, these thoughts haven’t crossed your mind. 

Y2K has been holding fashion in a chokehold for the past few seasons, and so it can be tempting to blindly follow suit. However, corseted tops, low-rise jeans, transparent garbs and sandwashed denim are all items that should arguably be left to those who fashion anthropologists would categorise as “Gen-Z”. 

The good news? Change is afoot, as fashion’s onus is shifting towards a new sensibility. World, meet casual comfort: the antidote to the post-pandemic fascination with uncomfortable clothing. Blame it on the free falling economy, or what the internet dubs “recession-core”, but either way, fashion’s attempts to make comfort, well, chic, befits the unsettled collective consciousness.

First, there was the most talked-about look of spring/summer 2023: Kate Moss at Bottega Veneta in a checked shirt and jeans. A bit plain? Precisely that was the point. As creative director, Matthieu Blazy, puts it, “it’s a kind of casual comfort that we pushed…