This grew on me so fast and it honestly might grow even more.
I wasn't expecting a rage song that samples Palkia from Jane, but here we are. Can't wait to see what's next.
this is so so so pretty. classical music is saved
Take notes, THIS is how you make a remix album.
"Brat and..." is just as fun and clubby as the original, while still covering the same deeper themes. Around half the album is Charli and her friends talking their shit over insane club beats. In the other half, Charli discusses the pitfalls of fame with Ariana Grande, wonders if everything is still romantic with Caroline Polachek, and rekindles her friendship with Lorde. Many tracks sound better than the original album without ... read more
SOPHIE's Oil of Every Pearls Un-Insides is an album that is incredibly meaningful to me and one of my favorite albums of all time. The announcement for this self-titled posthumous album gave me mixed feelings... while I looked forward to hearing previously unreleased work, I was worried that could be a disaster like the posthumous Speaker Knockerz album from the start of this year.
After listening, it's not a disaster, but the first couple of tracks definitely didn't stick the ... read more
1000 gecs basically got me interested in music, so it would be unfair for me to give it less than a 90.
1000 gecs is a mess, and it knows. Laura and Dylan never take themselves too seriously. I Need Help Immediately and gecgecgec sound like a random assortment of garage band loops and samples. None of the lyrics make any sense, and seem like an afterthought even for the writers... I mean, what is a money machine?
Side note, here's my experience with Money Machine (that everyone ... read more
Cake Pop 2 is an album that sees 100 gecs' Dylan Brady working with longtime collaborators to create... minimalist hyperpop? Bubblegum vocals with silly, nonsensical lyrics combining with simplistic beats is a formula that clearly can work; Black Rum and Boom are bangers and songs that I still go back to well over a year after discovering this album. But... those are the only songs on the album I really felt like returning to at all. I thought Whistle was off to a good start, but the track ... read more
D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L has a legendary backstory, but nothing on the album really lived up to the title track. I still enjoyed the listen though.
Camila why is this better than EVERYTHING on C,XOXO
Glad a good song finally came out of this era (:
Every song on Imaginal Disk is great, and I'm enjoying it more every time I return to it. I love the beautiful crescendos many of the sings end it and the ways the tracks seamlessly transition. The interludes add a lot to the experience and don't feel out of place in the slightest. As far as I'm concerned, Magdalena Bay have created a near-perfect synthpop album.
Favorite tracks: Image ⭐, Death & Romance, Watching T.V., Tunnel Vision, Cry For Me
While Parannoul managed to create many incredible shoegaze tracks using an old laptop and a Samsung S5 for his second album, there's no denying that live instruments with Parannoul's composition sound incredible.
Favorites: Polaris ⭐, Insomnia, Arrival, Parade, Sketchbook, SIMWIY
This collaboration between 3 artists doesn't quite manage to blend each of their styles and ends up feeling more like a mixtape. That being said, I don't mind the "mixtapey" feel of the album when almost every track is great.
Parannoul's tracks on this album stand out as the best for me. No surprise there given how much I love his other work. "70 Seconds Before Sunrise" doesn't work especially well independently but sets the tone for the final ... read more
(100 -> 95) TSTNPOTD still has no skips but the second half is weaker than I remember, with a couple songs I don't really go back to. Parannoul's live album and Sky Hundred are both incredible and stronger than this for me.
This is actually innovative. Like if she did this at a noise show the other acts would look tame and entirely unprovocative.
Like Picasso, she became famous for mastering her craft and now inverts it into something people believe is an artistic failure.
It's simply too early and too experimental.