Ahhhhhhh. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ahhh. Ah.

Bermuda 2 is less vibrant and enjoyable than Sunbather, but Deafheaven still retain some wonderfully blissful heaviness amongst all of those screeching guitars, muffled shrieking and ensuing chaos.

Favourite Song: Brought to the Water

Best: Luna, Baby Blue, Come Back, Gifts for the Earth

Worst: N/A

With intimate and playfully brutal lyrics, alongside some quirky and charismatic production choices, Fiona Apple really sets herself apart from other singer-songwriters with her modernish take on a genre that seems to stay fairly stagnant throughout musical history.

Favourite Song: On The Bound

Best: To Your Love, Limp, Paper Bag, A Mistake, Fast As You Can, The Way Things Are, Get Gone, I Know

Worst: A Mistake

Listening to this made me realise just how many Fleetwood Mac songs I've secretly known over the years from JUST this one album (4 to be exact). It's some nice pop rock but to be honest The Chain absolutely shits on every other song on this album. It's like The Chain is Godzilla or something and the rest of the track list is comparable to mosquitos. That song has no business being as cool as it is on possibly one of the most uncool mum rock albums ever.

Favourite Song: The Chain

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More cohesive than DAMN and Section 80, yet not as musically defining as TPAB or Good Kid, Mr. Morale sits in this middle ground of Kendrick's discography. I believe it's his most personal and uplifting album to date, and it feels somewhat like a therapy album. It's a double disc of inner thoughts and reflections on the past five years, with a lot of versatility and growth on display, mildly tainted with some questionable choices which conflicts some of the album's themes and ... read more

Although holding less highlights than Jane Doe, All We Love We Leave Behind furthers Converge's heavy and abrasive metalcore heart. It's crazy for a band to be sounding this good almost 2 decades after their first album.

Favourite Song: All We Love We Leave Behind

Best: Aimless Arrow, Trespasses, Tender Abuse, Sadness Comes Home, Empty On The Inside, Glacial Pace, Vicious Muses, Veins And Veils, Coral Blue, Shame In The Way, Precipice, Predatory Glow

Worst: Sparrow's Fall

In Rainbows' second disc has some promise but for the most part it made me feel thankful that the band chose to sequence the original like they did. These tracks are simply put just good, and I couldn't envision them on the main album at all. All in all some decent B-sides, but In Rainbows is too godly to ultimately remember or praise its EP counterpart too much.

Favourite Song: Bangers + Mash

Best: Down Is The New Up, Go Slowly, Up on the Ladder

Worst: MK 2

Double K crystals kiss my nuts.

I expected way worse from this album to be honest, especially since the dreaded... Bladee... is an artist I've come to greatly dislike, alongside his looming presence over online music communities. But compared to... Bladee... Ecco can actually sing and has a nice style to him, endorsed with a sentimentality I thought was impossible for his attached genre. Cloud rap usually isn't my sort of style but this feels different in a nice way, perhaps because it's ... read more

Overly Dedicated sets up Kendrick's trajectory well enough, but clearly his last pre-S80 project lacks the polish of his album efforts. There's a helping of conscious bangers but many songs lacked solid identities, plus the mixtape includes Kendrick's worst song to date being the rancid Michael Jordan. Overall, a decent but forgettable mixtape.

I can't wait for Mr Morale, but as a pre warning if it isn't better than DAMN then I will be crying and seething for the rest of 2022.

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Black Holes and Revelations is like Cowboys & Aliens but the aliens are the government and instead of being a shitty film it's a decent album.

I think Black Holes is a little patchy compared to Muse's previous two albums, but regardless it's still some signature Muse fun with some absolutely killer singular tracks like Supermassive Black Hole, Map of the Problematique and the wild-western tipped epic Knights of Cydonia. As hinted with the patchiness, I think that there's a fair amount of ... read more

Feel Special is compact, addictive and wonderfully overproduced to high heavens. This is tied between Max & Match as being my favourite K-Pop project. Only real men listen to K-Pop.

Favourite Song: GET LOUD

Best: Feel Special, RAINBOW, TRICK IT, LOVE FOOLISH, BREAKTHROUGH

Worst: 21:29

With Two Ribbons, the sentimental synth pop duo firmly establish themselves as one trick ponies. Their formula is nice and atmospheric, but with a more accessible and less artistic approach to their third album compared to 'I'm All Ears', I feel like this could've been much greater than it is. I'm left desperate to hear them make something that's at least a little different, like an entire album of 'Hot Pinks' or something. Still, it's a pleasant experience with some good singular tracks, but ... read more

Though CRAWLER is Idles' most varied release yet, it lacks a little in terms of consistency. Especially in the latter end of the album, everything started to merge together and I became slightly uninterested, but the first half is fantastic and there's some nice ideas going on. It feels like an album which is experimenting with styles and directions for the band to go in for the future, without necessarily coming to a clear decision on which style suits the band in the present. Hopefully this ... read more

Wow, this is just like Turn On The Bright Lights but with less variation, less depression, less interesting ideas, less catchiness, less engagement, less interest and less quality!

Antics is good if a little samey, yet nowhere near the quality of its predecessor. There's also a solid argument that most songs off of this album are the same, which could be a good or a bad thing depending on your mood. Nonetheless, it's still some pleasant Interpol which is jollier than their magnum ... read more

The Foo Fighters have always been a singles band, without a doubt, and I think the main flaw in most of their albums which people have found is that they're trying their hardest NOT to be a singles band. My main critique with The Colour & Shape for instance was that the far weaker songs on the album were the obvious album-filling tracks, because they lacked the energy and catchiness of the lead singles and they took a much more sentimental approach, attempting to pander too hard to a ... read more

Depressing, conceptual and filthy as hell, The Downward Spiral represents a man's decent into depression and severe mental illness with immaculately grim industrial production and song writing which plunges you into his dark, looming world. Reznor worked absolute wonders with this album, and its influence and individuality has stood the test of time incredibly, since literally nothing else sounds like this album does.

Favourite Song: Hurt

Best: Mr. Self Destruct, Piggy, Heresy, March Of The ... read more

This album feels like a voyeuristic peek into the sheer talent of Prince. For half an hour, this man takes you on a chilled yet impressive tour of some unreleased songs as well as some covers using only his voice and a piano, hence the name of the album. I can't lie when I say that I prefer Prince with all of his theatrics in production and his ability to play and master multiple instruments, but that doesn't mean to say that I don't enjoy him playing with the bare necessities. 17 Days ... read more

Swedish House Mafia were born from the early 2010's love of EDM and electronic producer led music. Whilst Guetta, Garrix, Walker, Harris, Skrillex and so on continued to influence chart music for an entire decade, this group remained as a one hit wonder. That was until PARADISE AGAIN, WHERE THEY COMPLETELY INNOVATE AND CHANGE ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOR DECADES TO COME! IT'S THE REAL KID A OF HOUSE MUSIC AND PRODUCER LED ALBUMS WHICH TURNS SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA INTO HOUSEHOLD NAME GODS OF MUSIC FOR ... read more

Helplessness Blues is a collection of some pretty, dainty folk songs. I got a wonderful zen feeling from this, mainly due to the beauty of the lyrical imagery constantly relating to nature, and the blissful acoustics of the instrumentals. Just a genuinely pleasant album to listen to.

Favourite Song: Helplessness Blues

Best: Montezuma, Bedouin Dress, Sim Sala Bim, The Plains / Bitter Dancer, Lorelai, Someone You'd Admire, The Shrine / An Argument, Blue Spotted Tail, Grown Ocean

Worst: The ... read more

Kiss is as early 2010's pop as you could possibly get, helped immensely by the fact that Justin Bieber and Owl City are features on this thing. It's sensationally unremarkable and sellable in every way, and it's clear that Carly's true auteur wasn't really let loose because it was basically just meant to be an album casing for Call Me Maybe. But hey, it's still a stupid dumb kind of fun, despite it being pretty generic and unlike anything else Carly has done.

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Ultra Mono has personally solidified IDLES for me as being probably the most aggressively loving band I've ever listened to. Compared to "Joy", Ultra Mono delves deeper into more explicit political and social references, but withholds weaker choruses and a sound which hasn't differed from their prior album too much. Still, who am I to complain, the formula of 'loud man screams in front of crashing punk riffs with a Brit twang' will always work wonders, and it's a formula that's led to ... read more