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Undoubtedly one of the best jazz musicians with fine touches of modern bossa nova, blending melancholic songs with more upbeat and uplifting ones, while always keeping the passionate and romantic tone that Laufey has consistently established throughout her career. You can notice experimental influences, classical music, acoustic elements, and of course the pop with jazz and bossa nova elemments that are so distinctive in Laufey’s sound. Lyrically, the album touches on intimate, romantic, ... read more

I’ve always thought The Armed was the embodiment of “experimental hardcore,” and this album proves it. It manages to explore and balance the melodic and cleaner tendencies they’ve been developing over their last two albums with the aggressive, mathy sound of their roots—plus, they decided to keep the glitch and hyperpop influences and put them to excellent use.

So beautiful and extreme.

Perfect shoegaze album from start to finish (or nu-gaze, if you want to be more specific). I really like Wisp’s previous work, but this one… oh, this one, she really nailed it.

Perfect layers with a solid mix. Everything is loud and bright, creating a beautiful wall of sound where every note is expressive, yet it can be calm and peaceful at times. What did I just say? It’s a perfect shoegaze album.