AbsurdToastling

Karmanjakah, I hereby dub thee "Serenitycore". While it isn't the heaviest metal album you'll ever hear, I guarantee you "Diamond Morning" will be one of the most beautiful.

Serene, brave, experimental, and loud, "Diamond Morning" is like nothing I've heard all year. Mixing the blast beats of heavier genres like black metal with djenty guitars, heavenly vocals, prog sensibilities, jazz piano, slam poetry, and a naked love for experimenting with ... read more

Don Broco's heaviest and most experimental album to date, the continual progression this band has demonstrated from their initial LP "Priorities" to today has been nothing if not impressive. While I still feel as though they reached their peak sound on 2021's "Amazing Things", perhaps even the off-album single "Fingernails", I am always a proponent of music getting heavier, so hey, if this is where they're going in the future, I can't wait to ... read more

There are bedroom recordings taken on 30 year old Nokia phone cameras that sound better than this. This is trash. A hard limit, and something I never thought I'd have to deal with or encounter, particularly from such a major (note, major in their niche, which is notably small) band. You simply do not release a song, let alone an entire record, in this sort of sorry auditory state. I cannot in good conscience give it even a single point. This is not a noise band. Music is supposed to sound ... read more

The kings of melodcholia have returned to remind the world how it's done. As the progenitors of midwest emo, you'd hope American Football to be not just proficient, but this many years into their career and reformation, but progressing the sound forward - and indeed they are. This is the sort of album you buy on vinyl so that you can sip wine to it on your porch on a chilly autumn day. It's the soundtrack for the fall released in the spring, and while that strikes me as a bit ... read more