Breaking free from their traditional live music into full-on plunderphonics, the Avalanches deliver a timeless music sampling classic, with all tracks here being great and unique in their own way, although can sound over-the-top at times. Despite being almost entirely made out of samples from (primarily) junk shop records dumped and forgotten, the few live recorded elements such as the opera vocals on "Electricity" complement the elements very well. The album does great to capture a ... read more

This falls between the mainstream and their introspective sound that made me drawn to their music. Majid Jordan continues to be creative with music outros but fortunately it doesn't save the generic pop-oriented title track. I felt they also could've done more with the acoustic "Forget About the Party" (the most mainstream of all).

However, the most memorable is their collaboration with Drake on "Stars Align" with its nostalgic sentimental vibe although feels ... read more

Rooting for a more darker vibe than Worlds, Virtual Self takes on the trance music scene popular in the 2000s while keeping the ethereal Japanese-esque video game that the previous project had.

Favs: Particle Arts, Ghost Voices, EON BREAK
Fine: a.i.n.g.e.l. (Become God), Key

Embarking on a sound of nostalgia, melancholy, and of video game and Japanese aesthetics, Porter Robinson delivers an album showcasing an alternative form of electronic music from the complextro music that he had been known for at the time. "Fellow Feeling" serves as an exception as it is the one that has a more mainstream sound than the rest of the tracklisting but is still well done and doesn't sound out of place. Worlds does a good job on being interpretive and being able to ... read more

CHVRCHES's introspective synth-pop sound is whitewashed by Marshmello's mainstream sound. Really held back their potential for more widespread attention.

Filo here returns with a revamped version of their surprisingly good album Pink Matrix that relies more on their scenecore sound, thus downgrading the album. Strangely enough, the new 11 tracks here come in first than the primary tracklisting here which includes revamped versions of older tracks. The remix for "CashApp" really improved over the original with Filo's hard hitting new verses and the featuring artists help supporting it especially BBYKOCAINE but not much so for ... read more

Madeon delivers a more shorter and poppier album to the table than in Adventure, relying more on his singing than featured artists. Collaborations are not excluded as a whole as they mainly come in the form of gospel choir vocals that supposed to come off the impression that they were sampled from records, though (in my opinion) come off more of as session recordings specifically made for the tracks. I do a liking to Madeon's use of formant shifting but I don't think it works on Audra ... read more

Ranging from acid house to scratchy noisy breakbeat to the likes of hip hop, this album is worth the listen. I really like the sample flips on this and it just shows that Coldcut are the goats at using samples ranging from black funk and reggae records to spoken-word and odd ones like classical music. While the album introduces itself with "People Hold On" (the most mainstream track out of all), the album really shows its true colours with "Fat (Party And Bullshit)" and ... read more

I do like its interesting approach here while primarily a Nu-Disco album. I think this does have a pretty good balance of the synth-based and sample-based styles of EDC, especially the arp patterns on "Small Screen", which help compliment Sarah Bonito's vocals (and I was quite surprised on KKB's collab with EDC and I think it's really good). Ngl, I do wish there was some solo work here, but I do like the features on the majority of the album. I just don't think the ... read more

Honestly one of the best intros I've ever heard of.

nah man this is so funny how tf did this dude get a drake feature lmfao.

Honestly I wish he didn't take out the drums and glitchy effects in the original "then we stood still" demo but this is still a timeless EDM classic and virtually nothing can surpass the superiority of this.

I'm not much of a fan of snuffles's vocals but the production is really good and Frizk carries this.

Honestly could've worked out better if it was a synthwave track than dance-pop. Still a night bop.

Splice loops

Honestly one of the most blatantly cheesy pop songs that filo has ever made.

Feels pretty empty (especially the B-side) as the instrumental is mostly drums but other than that it's a really good collage.

Although promoted publicly as xofilo's debut album, auroville really does serve as their first LP and the debut project of the xofilo moniker, though marked the last of the experimental and indie material they used to make, until now.

I feel like many of the mixing and DIY production of these songs suffer from overproduction with sounds and distortion popping here and there, alongside heavy layering making the tracks have some difficulty to breathe. Features can be hit or miss and ... read more

Following the experimentalistic and blissful Nurture, this album aims toward more of indie-rock than for electronic music and honestly does really well for an album that claims to have no sincerity. The album strongest songs are definetly the first three though the only problem is that it suffers from overproduction akin to that of Worlds, while the rest show the album's dedication to full-on and more light-hearted indie music. Alot of these songs are short and sweet and while there's ... read more

Yet soulstars and island collective say otherwise abt flex smh.