While I don't think collaborative project Promises is a groundbreaking, exciting or purely impressive collection of movements consisting of an amalgamation of Classical, Minimalism, Electronic and Jazz influences, the LP shines and stands out through it's absolutely blissful and enchanting sound. I have never listened to any of the three notable collaborating artists on this project, so I have no real point for comparison, the sparse but engagingly soothing atmosphere of this entire album ... read more

"Oh, something tells me that you're really gone"

I literally went through a breakup of a three-year long relationship today, and I didn't know what I could listen to, as I didn't want to listen to absolutely miserably sad music, because that might just worsen my mood, but I also didn't want to listen to a happy album that doesn't really reflect my mood at all, and I feel like Lou Reed is just the perfect choice for having something very moody while also bringin' in that certain ... read more

Not my dumb ass who thought "Hey, this first song kind of sounds like that one song from the Sound of Music musical" before even thinking about the title of the track and album💀

The fantastic cover My Favorite Things is not just my favorite rendition of the song, but also an obvious standout here, as it is the longest piece on the entire record, however, My Favorite Things (the LP) has a lot more to offer than that. What we have here are four really solid pieces of Modal Jazz, all ... read more

When I first got into The Doors, I didn't really know what to expect from them and how much material of theirs I'd be enjoying, as the band has many album with a very mixed reception and the members had a troubled career, so I thought I'd enjoy their debut, maybe Strange Days or LA Woman, but I never expected to also love Waiting for the Sun. The first time I listened to it, I was sure that expectation was met, as the first few tracks almost seem like a joke the first time you hear them. Then ... read more

This is the beginning of the part of their career where Godspeed You! Black Emperor's critical acclaim and cult-fan-base love started to shift further away from their godly level of praise, and instead went into a "ehh, yeah, this is just not as good as their early work"-direction. To be fair, that is certainly a reasonable argument, it isn't, but Godspeed You! Black Emperor at their lowest are still better than 90% of Post-Rock bands out there, and probably 99% of Rock bands in ... read more

(A lot of people do perfect score purges, where they downrate albums they gave a 100/100 to, but what I'm doing right now is the reverse of that, imma be more charitable and give albums 100/100 that I originally didn't believe to be perfect.)

Yeah, this album is a masterpiece, and I still stand by my statement that this is up there as the best sounding albums of all time. Nothing soothes me more, nothing pleases my ears more, it is so richly produced, every instrument is played to perfection, ... read more

Krautrock is quite possibly the most eclectic genre out there. I mean, it's kind of a given, considering that pretty much any experimental music coming from Germany was labeled under the term between the late 60s and 70s, and there still is a huge difference between all of those musical projects, but something still feels sort of uniquely collective about them. I mean, you have Klaus Schulze's work with his very spacey ambient music, Can, Neu! and Faust with their weird and avant-garde ... read more

Faust has been one of the most exciting bands that I had the pleasure of discovering in recent memory. With their insane, avant-garde, genre-bending self-titled masterpiece of a debut, their greatly eclectic and grand sophomore record Faust So Far and their off-kilter, underwhelming detour into sound-collage called The Faust Tapes, Faust have been inventive musicians that still continue to surprise me with what they are able to do even after I've listened to multiple albums of theirs. Faust IV ... read more

Amon Düül II is a very interesting part of the very eclectic Krautrock scene, as they didn't really go the meditatively energetic route of a Neu!, didn't want to be completely avant-garde like bands such as Can, nor did they ever try to be extremely artsy and experimental as groups like Faust. They did their own thing, without really thoroughly attempting to push any boundaries per se, but rather try to create interesting, complex and unique Psych-Jams, and they were pretty great at ... read more

When I first saw the rating of this, the first four Ghosts-parts, I was honestly kind of surprised, considering that this is easily the lowest-rated project they've ever made in a discography full of acclaimed albums and that this is the beginning of the Ghosts series, a series of which I've only heard the most recent iterations of, parts V and VI, which I both liked even though I hadn't heard this predecessor of theirs.. Part VI was a little too dark for my tastes which is why I didn't finish ... read more

Daft Punk's music has always been something that I've admired from afar and enjoyed certain tracks here and there but nothing ever really captivated me, as I thought it was well produced but not really music for my tastes. Today though, I decided to actually check out a full-length LP of theirs and I certainly wasn't disappointed. The clean beats mixed with the great usage of vocal chops and sonically interesting risks all make for an album that is about an hour long yet doesn't really overstay ... read more

I had listened to the first few tracks of this album and fell in love with them back in the summer of 2021, and now, pretty much a year later, I finally checked out what HAIM had to offer on Women in Music Pt. III, and I was not disappointed. I personally believe that the beginning and ending of this album is much better than what's in between them, however, this is one of the most consistently great Pop-records that I've heard in quite a while. Sure, this album suffers from feeling fatigued ... read more

You know, this album had been sitting for me at a 99 for literally years, but I recently decided to revisit a lot of albums and re-rate them to finally get my shit on this site together and I truly feel like this deserves a 100/100. No, it's not just because Daniel Dumile's announcement of death at the end of 2020 impacted me more than many other celebrity passings in recent time, but because I finally figured out why this album is as great as it is. My favorite Hip Hop album of all time, and ... read more

Huh? dafuq is Mladic? As much as I love Godspeed You! Black Emperor's music, one thing that I can't really say about their music is... that it surprises me a lot? Their music is powerful and intricate, but they are predictable, to be fair. I mean, pretty much every long piece of theirs is just Drone-->slow and mellow build-up-->unique calm-before-the-storm-type moment-->crescendo--> crazy rock climax--> instrumental breakdown... that's it... but what the fuck is Mladic? I can't ... read more

Although Spiderland is a masterpiece, I just can't really get into the rest of Slint's small body of work. I tried Tweez, couldn't really get the appeal at all and didn't even finish it, but now I tried their untitled EP and it is good, don't get me wrong, it's just so many tiers below the quality of pretty much any track off of Spiderland. The lack of Brian McMahan eerie vocals and dark poetry makes for both tracks to feel sort of empty, the compositions themselves are dark and eerie, yes, but ... read more

To be honest, NotM is maybe Death Grips' best album when it comes to aesthetics. I mean, this is them at their most glitchy, the BJörk vocals implemented into the tracks sound absolutely incredible and work really well for this short half-album, but I truly think the trio wasted the potential of the concept by not really putting a whole lot of creativity within the songwriting of these tracks. If I want a glitchy masterpiece, I'll just listen to Year of the Snitch, if I want their bangers, ... read more

I mean, like, possibly one of the few greatest EPs of all time? I cannot remember the last time I was so incredibly impressed by an EP. With just 2 pieces, Godspeed You! Black Emperor deliver some of their greatest material ever on Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada. As it always is with these guys, it's powerful, intense and emotional all the while simultaneously still conveying a very distinct message, which is explained almost entirely by the second track titled "Blaise Bailey Finnegan ... read more

Melancholia is easily the best thing that I have heard so far of William Basinski's discography. Maybe that's just because I'm a sucker for melancholic emotion, but it was affective nonetheless. I still don't think Basinski's textures, structures or compositions are all that great or interesting, at least this one achieved the evoke a certain emotion, whereas other Basinski records just felt like good-but-bland Ambient records to me.

I tried listening to The Disintegration Loops a few years ago and couldn't really get into it, but I decided to give William Basinski's style of Ambient and Tape Music another shot, so I tried out this record, and while it did not wow me as much as some people are wowed by his work, i still think this is really solid Ambient music. The real issue for his music is that there really isn't any central goal behind it. There's no heavy focus on structure, atmosphere, texture or emotion, but it's ... read more

What a delightful surprise this was. I never listened to any work by Loraine James before, hell, I didn't even know "Whatever The Weather" was an alias for her until halfway through this album, so I really went into this album without any expectations, but it surely did not disappoint me. This might be the most underrated project I've heard this year (together with Burial's new EP). The way Loraine James mixes tight, hard-hitting but icy IDM beats together with these dreamy, blissful ... read more