A bit of a snooze fest. I was baited into listening to this album with the fantastic Touching Yourself, but most of the other songs are just plain boring to listen to. The clear strengths of this album are the fun indie pop cuts, but the rambling and wispy vocals don't really add much for me personally and bring down the experience. I also grew very tired of hearing the word 'baby' being said about a million times. Surely there MUST be another endearing noun out there you could use. Overall, ... read more

I have stayed away from King Gizzard like they're the plague because their discography is just too damn intimidating. To put it into perspective, Prince made around 40 albums during his 37 year career (not including re-releases, posthumous releases, remasters, and numerous other projects). The wizards have managed to make half of Prince's discography... in a decade. It's a mighty feat, and one that I can praise diligently, but when it came to looking for how to enter their discography, it was ... read more

Like the mentioned cake, The Perfect Red Velvet is tantalising and sweet, but it also has a certain R&B kick to it. The group separates themselves through tight and straight cutting R&B influenced bangers like Peek-A-Boo and I Just, and that's where they shine the brightest. You also have your typical k-pop ballads which are pretty good for the most part, as well as the few generic-ish pop songs that most Korean groups are known for churning out like clockwork. I found that I was ... read more

I can defend Moral Panic, but yeah I'm not even gonna try with this one.

To no-ones surprise, Dead Club City is Nothing But Thieves' weakest album. I'm not gonna sugar-coat the fact that I really do love this band and their consistency in the very sparse area of modern rock. But similar to older bands that have dived deep into pop as of late, the Thieves don't quite hit the top mark. They did with the first two singles though. Although they both are on totally different mood spectrums, you've ... read more

THIS MIGHT BE 100 GECS⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

Jokes aside, assuming that the gecs are the blueprints for most abrasive hyperpop combinations, Frost Children only really draw similarities when it comes to genre scopes, vocals and the occasional unconventional lyricism. To provide their own uniqueness to the genre they implement dancey house elements and Super Smash Bros. Brawl samples (????), and they also provide the ability to make some really sentimental stuff, like the last two tracks that ... read more

ALICE IN CHAINS GRUNGE SUPREMACY!!!!

An extremely solid debut album. Literally nothing else to say. Alice In Chains is so easily the best of the big grunge four (in my humblest of opinions).

Favourite Song: Man In The Box

Best: We Die Young, Sea of Sorrow, Bleed the Freak, Love Hate Love, Sunshine, I Know Somethin (Bout You)

Worst: Confusion

It's music I admire, but not necessarily music that I enjoy. It works as an experience, and it's a nice one at that, but upon finishing it's quite forgettable on a track-to-track basis. Still, it's a very calming journey told through soft ambience and dainty folk.

Favourite Song: Dawn in the Adan

Best: Pilgrimage, Easter Lily, Sagu Palm's Song, ohayashi, Adan no Shima no Tanjyosai

Worst: Horo

I truly hope track four means we're getting Kero Keros of the Bonito Age.

This is the newest album from my favourite band and I'm getting to see them on Thursday, but I'm not letting any biases get in the way of how I feel about this album. For the time [s New Roman] being, I think that this is a pretty good Queens cut, if not a little on the strange side.

The initial single ultimately started this run of strangeness for me. I really enjoyed Emotion Sickness, but I couldn't tell how it ... read more

I wanna be your vacuum cleaneeerrrrrr
I wanna be your coffee pottttt
I wanna be your Hatsune Miku body pillowwwwww
I wanna be a decent singerrrrrrrrr

Arctic Monkeys, one of the biggest bands globally for well over a decade, seemed to strike it big with AM. But geez I do not see why. It has glimmers of so many other bands and influences, from The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age and older Americana sounds, but it's all wet and sloppy attempts at trying to replicate these ... read more

There's a deep resonating sense of nostalgia and sadness within Wilco's most prolific album, which remains consistently adaptive and enchanting all throughout. It's a stunning collective of music, even if it's a bit first-half-heavy.

Favourite Song: Jesus, Etc.

Best: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Kamera, Radio Cure, War On War, Ashes of American FLags, Heavy Metal Drummer, Pot Kettle Black

Worst: I'm the Man Who Loves You

Last year I went to my first ever concert, being the Taylor Hawkins tribute show at Wembley. It was a powerful 6+ hours of rock celebration, with endless appearances from artists who all poured out their hearts for the Foo's lost drummer. But as the night drew to a close with Dave's solo performance of 'Everlong', helped by the entire crowd singing alongside him, it felt like it was a subtle goodbye to the band. But despite the concert being the one to end all others, it wasn't the ending of ... read more

Sleep Token's first two albums really do provide emotional encores to heavier metal mixes, and I think that was what's missing for me in TMBTE. You take stuff from this like Blood Sport and Say That You Will and it kind of swallows up the cruddy trap influences that they put on their latest album. But oh well, this review's about their debut, and yeah! It's undeniably Sleep Token! What can I say at this point, I've reviewed their other two albums and I'd sound like a broken record repeating ... read more

There's some occasionally promising song writing and production glimpses on Sling, but ultimately it's a bland attempt at a folk album.

Favourite Song: Amoeba

Best: Bambi, Zinnias, Reaper

Worst: Joanie

Some light-hearted and bubbly dream pop fun, but the band appears to be a one trick pony at the best of times.

Favourite Song: After The Earthquake

Best: Pharmacist, Easy On Your Own?, Pressed, Very Online Guy, Velveteen, Pomeranian Spinster, Belinda Says

Worst: Bored in Bristol

The most controversial album as of late has come from the metal 'n' stuff band Sleep Token, a gang of genre shifters fronted by a masked man who sound likes the bloke who sang Pompeii. I think it's clear that their last album's strength is a weakness on Eden, being that their range of genres don't come together as orderly compared to Tomb. But what they lack in cohesion and fluidity is improved by lengthy, cataclysmic tracks and their usual strange yet enchanting mixes of sounds that makes them ... read more

I think it's clear that KAYTRAMINÉ wasn't meant to be similar to KAYTRANADA's other projects, as it's much shorter and more accessible than the likes of 99.9%. There's a few strong beats, especially with 4EVA and K&A (even if it is just KAY's rendition of Kendrick's 'Purple Hearts'), but there's also a fair amount of throwaways. And Aminé? Eh, he's always been hit or miss with me, and on here he's passable if I'm to call him anything. You could replace him with any rapper and ... read more

It's really weird hearing how Foals first started out, because their later songs that I greatly enjoy are far simpler than the multi-layered and shifting crop of tracks on Antidote. It's a very well produced, energetic and fun time, but it's a little samey and unremarkable within the midst of other 2000's indie rock albums, with no songs really standing out in particular as powerful singles.

Favourite Song: The French Open

Best: Cassius, Red Socks Pugie, Olympic Airways, Electric Bloom, Two ... read more

This review is only going to be for Taylor's Versions of the tracks that featured on the original Fearless. There's three reasons for this. One is that I want to listen to Taylor Swift's discography through its finite, original, standard form but with the modern versions that give a big middle finger to her old manipulative label. The second is that I don't want to listen to a 1 hour and 46 minute album (if I can choose not to), and the third is that I passionately hate deluxe albums. I won't ... read more

There is no instance of lying when I say that this may possibly be the best produced album in existence.

I first listened to this a few years ago, and it blew my young teenage brain. I always make sure to revisit this album a few times every year or so, and that time came to me literally just two days ago. Every listen of Mouth Moods, or any of Neil's "Mouth" series in general, brings around something new, whether it be a new laugh or a new surprising development in his masterful ... read more

500 reviews and ratings is quite a milestone, so I shall celebrate with these words: I really like AOTY. Although I haven't made any serious connections on here, it's nice to have a little community that I'm somewhat of a part of. I do like reading the odd review and having a small discussion with people on here, but even if I've never interacted with you before, thanks for making this site what it is: a superior RYM, because god knows we needed a better site than that. Also if you haven't ... read more