I remember this dudes last EP downright disgusted me for how bad it was (overproduced, cheesy, simultaneously over and underwritten), and while this is a step up, that’s not saying a lot. Commentary YouTubers have to realize they’re not musicians first with their content lol.
I didn’t know one of my albums of the year was gonna be a brutal slam death metal album but welp there it is. The most beautiful instrumentals with the most pain-staking and horrifying vocals. I love it.
Low highs and high lows. The definition of mediocre tbh. If it wasn’t for the tracings and leftovers of BROCKHAMPTON this would be completely uninteresting. I know Kevin Abstract isn’t only BROCKHAMPTON, but nevertheless this project is just unsure of what it wants to be.
11-11-2023 EDIT:
58—>50—>58 again
The vocal production of the yodeling and wailing on this album is so shitty it actively ruins anything good about the vocals. However, I did bring my score ... read more
Oh this isn’t good at all. I had absolutely no clue what this band was prior and I was just completely let down with how good the user score is. The screaming is so bad. It’s genuinely terrible. The song “Jaded” is too good when everything here is at best alright and at worst awful. Besides the writing on this album being similarly awful, musically there’s not a lot of interest here. The mixing is mediocre at best. What is the appeal, dude.
The really weird out of tune crooning asides, I did really fw this album ngl. I had never heard anything she made prior (I have heard of her tho), but I do think she nails the style of post rock with hyper pop mixed in super well. This isn’t a crowning jewel of post rock or anything, and not everything left the best impression on me, but lyrically, sonically, and just in general, it’s a great great album.
EDIT: also i liked the david ortiz line
he’s cool :)
Asides from both featured songs being lowkey shit, this is an amazing piece of hardcore. Great screaming vocals, and I really groove with the kick patterns and how the drummer so often switches them up instead of just constant blast beats. I’m beyond happy to see this band continue after a devastating event like the car accident in July.
SIGNIFICANTLY better than his debut album. While his debut album was an overrated mess, he sings with such an unbridled passion it’s hard not to fall in love with this thing, even with some songs too hard to take seriously.
The title track is sorta cool but this def feels more tired than the EXCELLENT Brilliant Corners.
I know this is undoubtedly a hot take but this isn’t one of his best works. This dude is going to go on a CRAZY RUN in like two albums (Kind of Blue ahem) but when he’s not modal it really isn’t as clever.
It’s a cool album if you’re a Blink-182 fan but I am very much not that. I was pretty shocked by how positively it was received and it’s significantly better than their last few albums but it’s offensively inconsistent in quality and tone.
These guys were stupid popular in the metal scene last year with Celebrity Therapist which I remembered thinking was good not great, and this EP loses all the bands hardcore charm with really grating harmonies and very clean yet somehow harder to listen to production. It wasn’t absolutely terrible though? I guess?
This is rather emblematic of the state that emo rap is in right now. It’s just horrible content with recycled boring ideas.
This album suffers from the fact that it is very very front loaded, especially with that first song being THAT good. INCREDIBLE. It’s uncommon that I encounter a song that amazing everyday. Even despite that song, this is a beautifully sung album with plenty of bangers and just minor pacing issues. Runner up for AOTY.
A bit late to this album but yeah wow this was really good. It was hyped up a lot and it deserves all of it. It’s a very mature and excellent step up from her past work, which wasn’t bad, but it’s really impressive how her sound evolved overall. That song with Bon Iver is fantastic and I do not like Bon Iver lmao.
Yeah, I will just never understand the hype around this dude. This album is getting absolute RAVE reviews, mostly centered around the albums pretty beautiful lyricism and storytelling. That was always Sufjan Steven’s greatest strength though. I could just never understand him. This is not my first listen of one of his albums, as I have listened to Illinois, Carrie & Lowell, and Reflections, and pretty much every single album is the same for me, which is to say they have no effect and ... read more
Really needed more Blakey, but asides from that, this was one of the most fantastic pieces of jazz I have ever listened to. It is Miles Davis’ unsung masterpiece. “One For Daddy-O” also has the now iconic “is that what you wanted, Alfred?” included in the closing seconds of the track. Cool project.
A great piece of folk that might be a bit too loaded with filler but overall sounds really nice. Like, it sounds REALLY nice. The production is so new and it’s such a beautiful listen. I applaud anyone involved in the production of this album.
While not as concise or even memorable as A Love Supreme, Blue Train is an experiment in the then amateur band leader John Coltrane’s discography, full with energy and heart. It’s classic. The track of the same name can be debated to be his best work ever.
I typically really like post-rock whenever I do listen to them, and I know these guys are legends, but WOW was this a grueling listen. Not only were the audio engineers deaf (why did the drums sound like that), everything asides from the nice washy guitars in track 1 and the creeping synths near the mid part of the album sounded really bad. This album was really bad. This feels like the most pale imitation of the modern post-rock sound. The (DANCE) electronic elements were cringe too. Maybe ... read more
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