The Zane Lowe remix is so good! Colour me surprised, did he always have it like this? Wet Leg killed it too, fucking love it, I love a great remix album me (read that part in British white girl slang please) Oh the bass on the DOMi & JD BECK remix is disgustang. The Remi Wolf version is a better song than the original, wait. Am I going to enjoy this more than the actual album?

The end of Bartees Strange’s retake is what I expected the whole track to be it’s a bit hit or miss ... read more

MY PICK FOR AOTY 2023:

This coupled with OPN’s “Again” show the possibilities that glitch has in fusing different genres in a fluid manner, both records do this with a traditional or 90’s rock pocket of sound that works crazily well here. Everything else that makes this record great has already been said it’s easily my favourite record this year so far, so good and I’m happy rock is being brought back because rock bands sure as fuck aren’t going to do ... read more

Michael’s R&B album or at least this records highest moments are encased in R&B the four track run from Break of Dawn to Butterflies continues to age like fine wine, it seems so obvious with hindsight and the weeknds influence on said genre that Michael would have thrived here in this medium of sound. This record is the closest we have of MJ purposely creating in the R&B space and should definitely be celebrated as such even if the album meanders to more pop centric song ... read more

Gia continues to disappear further into her music. Her debut started as a collection of whispers regarding her heartbreaks, by now she hardly utters a word and its still as powerful as before.

For anyone trying to get a better grasp or understanding of Sakamoto's Discography this compilation of tracks are curated to near perfection, like someone making a playlist of his entire career not aiming to add all the "hits" but tell a story through his body of work. This record had me rediscovering an artist I thought I knew a great deal about.

He doesn't miss, playing with genre's yet to break constantly . He has been lost to iterations of dance music recently, which I really disliked but it always leads to something and Untitled works to that point. He's cooking and its starting to smell goood.

One cool thing I've noticed, thanks to this website and theneedledrop is when I hate something from a great artist and have a strong feeling towards like, "wtf is this shit" it always translates to someone else loving that choice. ... read more

I think it’s only right to give every artist a chance, despite her not making music for me, perhaps her Paramore influence could strike the right note, some sort of resonance. “I’m pretty when I’m cry” didn’t really hit me.

The rest of the album passed in a blur of ehh.

In the end, this EP is painfully dull.

Track 7 "I Want You To Know" is Burial meets Snoop Dogg and Pharrell, that's a combination from out of the multiverse, it's beautiful!

So glad Blake has not continued down his singer songwriter rabbit hole because god it wasn’t for me and while a track like “Big Hammer” doesn’t really interest me, this is the version of Blake’s sound that I love, the long awaited follow up to his Colour in Anything record or even the natural progression of his CMYK tape ... read more

As the album cover suggests Noname is going through something and perhaps her perception of self is warped. Less delusions of grandeur and more something is going wrong mentally? The things she says on this record portrays someone not all together there a clattering of nonsensical lines maybe this is a satire or a concept album about “woke” people with conspiracy theory level beliefs. Who knows as she says I’m just a comment but these verses read like a journal of someone who ... read more

Was definitely not expecting Sik-K to deliver such a coherent thesis of his sound. It has the signature dance-R&B soundscape that has made him such a well regarded artist despite never really releasing any meaningful bodies of work, just a great single here and a solid feature there. Here though, the record is fun in all the right spots and sensual everywhere else. His music has finally caught up with his image, a trendy R&B record that will no doubt consume the Korean club scene for ... read more

2023 has been so good in nearly every facet of art besides maybe film? Whatever-regardless, a five year wait and we may get a Jooyoung album? He said as much in a Dazed article at the beginning of the year and now 4 singles in and it could release next week or the next few months or tomorrow. Interestingly all the singles are tethered to an indie-rock R&B, Mokyo and Colde have also been in this pocket of sound but Jooyoung definitely has made it his own, another good sign though is that ... read more

Everything I wanted from a solo V record, his voice is stunning.

Have had this playing off and on since midnight, in and out of sleep I’d call this record insular, a particularly Archy Marshall record turned Krule. It’s style over perfection, certain tracks like “Hamburgerphobia” or “Pink Shell” I imagine could have easily been omitted to make a sleek 10 track album but again, mood rules here and when you’re submerged into this records sound that’s when it stands out as one of the best in his discography.

In ... read more

On one side it’s a record about how awful radio channels were in America at this time in time, on the other side it’s an album that came off to me like a drive through the hellish landscape of addiction. I mean the imagery is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Borderlands(the video game) and OG mad max, it was a visual record to me that’s why songs for the deaf! This dusty ass hellscape being the embodiment of addiction, it’s summery heat and destruction of the mind over ... read more

I hadn’t realised that this reissue was so different to its predecessor. “Santa Barbara”, “Your Voice/ Bethel, NY”, “Laurel Canyon” etc. all tracks only found here and said tracks are my favourite of this iteration of his sound. This record plays like the light to the midnight of his “Syre: the electric album” both have rap verses thrown to the corner of the record while mood and melody take center stage. It’s beach boys drenched in ... read more

Jadens discography has been centred around telling a love tragedy, where Jaden’s persona “Syre” got dumped, shot and left to die in the hills by the one he loved. Not exactly the best topic if your genre is hip-hop. This has led to awkward songwriting moments all across his first two albums.

This is to say that, this mixtape is apparently his last record about the one who left him. It makes sense Jaden had backed himself into a corner conceptually Syre-erys being inversions ... read more

Whatever Deftones fans dislike about this record is probably what I love about it. Perhaps it’s a dumbing down of their sound? Don’t think I’ve ever really thought too hard about a deftones record, just wanted it to punch me in the face and then kiss it better. So whatever the case I really enjoy what they were going for here, It stands as my favourite album of theirs but can’t really tell why through the fog of nostalgia being a hell of a drug.

Derivative but really good. Takes the best parts of say Baby Keem and Carti puts them together to make a very trendy, of the times 7 track which sounds more concise than the artists he is biting from. “Why these n*, sound like me to me”

If call me by your name was a musical.✨