This was truly a magical listen, I enjoyed every song here and loved a few of them and there are some purely special songs songs here, I can’t believe it’s taken me nearly a year to finally let myself experience this but I’m glad I finally did.

Faves: Your New Place, Seminary, You, Racing Mount Pleasant, Seyburn

That last 90 or so seconds is easily one of the best musical passages of the year, Jane nails switching the vibe of Criminal into this more melancholic sounding rendition and it works so so well. I love the build up to that moment too especially the Without You refrain (also Be Your Girl mentioned, 10/10 for that alone.)

Mixing If You Can’t Hang vocals into Ellie Goulding is enough to solidify yourself as a hall of famer artist in my opinion.

(someone should add all the credits from all the samples of each leroy song to throw off unsuspecting people, I think that would be really silly)

There is no doubt in my mind that eventually people will come round on Notes and it will get more love than it has right now because this is just such a fun collection of songs that very much explores genres the band never really went down the lane of before now and I think it comes out great.

I was around when this was dropping during the pandemic (jesus christ I was 16 at that point) and I remember loving the singles, Jesus Christ 2005 and Too Shy being high in my rotation in that year and ... read more

Feels like I say this every month (considering her output, it probably is) but Jane is without a doubt the most consistently great artist potentially of the decade, she’s continued her streak again here and some of the mixes and ideas here are absurdly well done and sound insane.

Faves: XO TOUR LLIF3, NOTHING LASTS FOREVER (the last 2 and a half mins…my word), #BOYLETMEKNOW, Summer Fling

I feel like I say this with every new single Perry drops but this might be my absolute favourite one so far and might be one of the best singles of the year so far, this is fucking stellar.

This one features more of a guitar and drum-heavy instrumental compared to the last few singles and I think it compliments the verses and the contents within them beautifully (Perry is in unbelievable form here), Zionkat’s production here is so well done.

I really liked Marika Sage’s feature ... read more

We have never been more back holy shit.

(DEAN drop an album this year and my life is yours)

I am so fucking excited for the techno slop trend to come and go in Kpop because jesus christ, I’m just so tired of it at this point😭😭

That being said, ILLIT probably do the best job with it in comparison to KATSEYE/Le Serra but I still don’t like this insistence on groups who don’t really do that sound having to do a song with that sound, it’s just so boring. GRWM was a great intro, I really liked the title track and I think the outro is pretty good too, ... read more

Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow.

Someone’s gunna make an unbelievable video essay covering this 2024-2026 run and it’ll be justified because it’s bordering on outrageous quality to quantity ratios now 😭😭

(also was that a Heads Will Roll vocal sample throughout Experimental Skin/How To Teleport or am I tripping)

I love this a lot honestly, I think BMTH’s reinvention into more electronic rock and metal with pop influences throughout has been good and amo is a great introduction to that new sound and while deviating from what made the band as popular as they were coming into this, it isn’t complete sonical whiplash and a lot of the sounds here are great.

Faves: heavy metal (!!), wonderful life, mother tongue, i don’t know what to say

Short and sweet but every song here was solid :)

This is so fun, I really enjoy Rivers’ vocals and I think the guitars are brilliant.

(shoutout that one mashup The Council of Horso did where they mashed up Change by Deftones and Undone, that’s been itching my brain for 6 months)

Faves: The World Has Turned, Undone, Only In Dreams

“I honestly never planned on getting old” shattered me, 10/10 no notes.

Brendon was unbelievable on the chorus by the way, incredible choice.

Wow.

To say I’m blown away by this still wouldn’t really do the album justice, this is absolutely stunning and the renaissance of EDM in the mainstream, especially from female artists is such a refreshing and happy sight to see and I hope it continues.

Tiffany has made an absolute classic here, it is produced to perfection, her vocal performances are flawless and every idea she has sticks the landing and is just so so great, just incredible.

Faves: SAME LA, NO LUCK (!!), START OVER, ... read more

APRILLLLLL😭😭😭

This has somehow exceeded my extremely high expectations that the 3 singles (plus the Yves remix of Do It, my beloved remix) made me have and is easily one of the best pop albums of the entire decade and completely blew me away by some way.

I believe the three singles were perfect as teasers and work well to establish the electropop sound of the album and the I O U motif that’s used throughout. Tell Me is a great intro too and I think it flows into Music so well ... read more

I must be hearing a different album to everyone else because this is a solid return after 6 years away from being a group (obviously they’re all done solo stuff in that time, listen to Right Place, Wrong Person by RM please, that’s a genuinely great album)

Some of these songs will sound great in a stadium atmosphere (Hooligan, FYA and One More Night) and the production across the album is great and I love the list of collaborators they chose to work with, it feels very unique ... read more

Nat Ćmiel diverts from their primarily electronic sound to a shoegazey-indietronic hybrid and pulls it off brilliantly with a lot of my favourite songs from their discography coming from here.

Favourites: sulky baby, ghosts, daisies, software update, bloodbunny

2026 is acc gunna top last year music wise, I can’t believe it