"Fuck Love 3: Over You" Is the third entry in the staggeringly unoriginally titled "Fuck Love" trilogy by Australian "rapper" The Kid LAROI. It's also the latest mixtape from him and a clear attempt at going much more mainstream to reach a wider audience and gain new fans. I think it just might work.

You know, I genuinely like this release. More than perhaps I should, given the varying quality of the writing on this thing. One lyric on the arguably weakest song ... read more

Spirit of the Beehive doing what they do best and being peacefully and whimsically weird. Nothing groundbreaking, but one of the more buy-worthy 70s I've reviewed all year.

No.

This is how you do space rock in 2021. I enjoy myself some King Gizzard and some Tame Impala, but I crave modern music in the spirit of the old stuff that still doesn't have to dial up the reverb and swap out Ibanezes for Rickenbackers. This album sounds like wisdom coming to you in a vision while meditating in a mystical ice cave. And yes, that's a good thing.

I hear just as much Daughters and Matmos in Darkside's influences as I do Pink Floyd or Magma, with atmospheric noises of organic ... read more

I've been a fan of Emma-Jean Thackray's for some time now, and her prior releases, technically "lesser" EPs, had already caused me to sit up and take notice. Now, with her latest release, a "real" album that gets the honor of being her "debut" because it's an LP (what's the difference these days, honestly?), I can firmly say that Thackray is one of the great musical artists working today. I was not at all disappointed with "Yellow." In fact, it exceeded ... read more

The first single, "The Ice Bridge," was actually pretty fantastic and gave me hope for the rest of the album to hit just as hard and feel just as fresh and adventurous. Unfortunately, it has since come to light that almost all of that song was lifted from Francis Monkman's "Dawn of an Era." I'm usually not one to support the idea or merits of plagiarism claims, but goddamn, just listening to the two songs side-by-side, it's almost note-for-note, beat-for-beat the same exact ... read more

I haven't been this bored in a listening session since Rush's "Snakes and Arrows." Clearly a lot of talent and skill being thrown at really typical, run-of-the-mill pop balladry and jazzy R&B that I started to tune out of really quickly. "Boys at School" is by far the best track on the record, but that doesn't come along until the whole thing is more than half over. The rest is a soup of samey "soulful" vocal runs and melodies that are all over the map.

Gorgeous ambient rock that brings with it a sense of longing and mystery.

Not among Walker's most memorable, but certainly a fun album to listen to once or twice.

It's a puzzling thing. On one hand, it's a nifty little idea to run ultrasound audio through synths and manipulate the results through editing to create an ambient record. On the other hand, presenting said manipulation as if you had nothing to do with it and giving all the creative credit to an unthinking, unfeeling, unalive mass of still-developing tissue, as if it were consciously composing something every time it bumped against the microphone, is absurd and offensive on multiple ... read more

Floating Points is one of the most daring musical acts of this generation, unafraid to dive into any musical style that suits the vision. The project's previous release was arguably an electronic music master stroke that presented as typical DJ beats but quickly showed itself as being something much deeper once one scratched the surface. Sam Shepherd, the DJ behind the project, looms large among his fellows in his creativity and sense of vision. He's arguably up there with other greats like ... read more

How many years has this band been a thing, now? And their sound hasn't progressed one little bit. Not only that, but I wasn't exactly the biggest fan of their music even back when they were hot. I certainly can't say I was the intended audience for this release, and yet I also wonder if even the old fans would be satisfied by such a safe, stagnant record after all these years without new output from the band. It just seems as if so much effort was made to get a new album rolling only for so ... read more

Okay, boys. I see you! Really lovely pop punk that I think Fallout Boy these days is in dire need of taking notes from.

It's fine. Kind of boring to me after awhile because of how samey it gets, but it's well-made.

Fairly typical electro-pop that pulls from new wave heavily without doing much to progress that style forward in any meaningful way. Good, not great.

Truly amazing, vibrant math rock-meets-avant-garde electronica that pays homage to the hard rocking garage acts of the past while still moving the musical frontier of guitar-oriented music unmistakably into the future.

Serj Tankian, music version 7.0
Looking at art through the eyes of a cash grab.
Thinking he needs to resume songwriting activity:
"Elasticity." But it's shitty. But it's shitty.

Serj, are you on the verge,
Of a nervous breakdown? Breakdown?
Now, somewhere after your greatest albums,
Your creativity sleeps.
Somewhere, post-SOAD your artistry sleeps.
The "r" word? The "r" word? THE "R" WORD?!!!!

More fuel to the fire of right-wing victim culture
You're ... read more

Justin Bieber is an interesting case for me as a music lover. Always has been. Primarily because I have always been very impressed by his obvious natural talent as a musician but simultaneously baffled at the blandness of his artistic output. The kind of music Justin has always made, in one form or another, is music that sounds manufactured by his producers without any real sense of a singular creative vision--something that I would expect from any number of cookie-cutter pop singers who have ... read more

The band is heard here doing absolutely nothing new, sounding like a cover band of themselves trying to recapture the magic from "Is Survived By" but managing only to make me long to spin that record in place of this one. The guys need to take another creative leap forward like they did with "Is Survived By," not simply imitate it. And if and when that next leap forward comes, I am sure the post-hardcore world will once again feel the ripples.

Starts out really strong but becomes meandering pretty soon. Good, but not great. Typical space rock jam band kind of stuff. The spoken word bits don't really land with me, either.