Another one down, Fief I in comparison to Fief II is a little toned down and more consistent than their second work. This record sticks to mostly stringed instruments and tavern like soundscapes. For me I enjoyed it mostly the same but I could see it being a preference match here for others.
Track Ratings
Cobblestone & Magic: 82
Tales By Tavern Hearthglow: 72
Meetings Under Medieval Stars: 72
Wandering Minstrel: 70
The Tinker's Wagon: 75
To Rest in the Shade of Dragon Wings: 80
Sure I'll take a bite!
This thing is at its best cool lofi tunes to study to but otherwise is a mostly empty loop of instrumentals. I at least caught myself rocking my head along to Vaporized, Sunset, and Valley of Ghosts so that is something.
Track Ratings
Aurora: 40
Vaporized: 52
Sunset: 52
Valley of Ghosts: 55
Touch: 35
Rise: 35
Reality: 45
I honestly forgot non-Cheetah Girls songs were on this soundtrack but they are. They don't ruin it at all, nahhhhh.
Track Ratings
Cheetah Sisters: 100
Cinderella: 88
Girl Power: 85
Together We Can: 100
C'mon: 35
Girlfriend: 50
Breakthrough: 65
End of the Line: 55
Turns out Dungeon synth is pretty cool. While listening I kept having flashbacks to various videos games I played in the past like Castle Crashers and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion thinking this would be perfect background music to play along with those games. Every song here basically sounds exactly like what the title is pointing towards. I will say if these songs were longer I could find this a bit too stagnant to want to just sit and listen to but if you just are going to throw it on and ... read more
Not as impressed with this one as I was with the 2023 release but still a solid listen. The artists voice is really pretty when she puts it out there but on this record she felt much more reserved.
Track Ratings
As Tradition: 78
Swimming: 90
View From This Side: 75
Friend: 82
Be Mean, It's Kinder Than Crying: 72
Good Thing: 79
Baby Tiger: 76
Performer: 65
Mama It's Christmas: 75
The nostalgia I have for this record, being in a wall of death at warped tour to The Depths is a bit scary.
This thing still goes hard as hell and is probably one of the few records from my earlier years I look back at fondly. I'm a Monster is kind of a poop closer though. Glad the Deluxe came along and fixed things although the intro section got a huge bump and was already stacked. When You Can't Sleep at Night is at least a bit better.
Pre Deluxe Rating: 84
Post Deluxe Rating: 88
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Nice little HyPeRpOp record!
Everything on this project feels very personable and genuine with my only complaint being that some songs feel less complete than the others (see Tethered and Owen Wilson).
Track Ratings
Tough: 82
Heroin: 80
Praying: 74
Tethered: 66
Pour Me Out: 70
Owen Wilson: 60
Hypermasculine: 68
This album makes me want to go get some chalk and draw on the sidewalk.
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Not going to lie I wasn't going into this record as optimistically as I normally would for an Ariana album. That being said, I wanted to like what I heard and the first two tracks were definitely convincing me that may be the case. You start with a very simple intro with nice layered vocals painting a good scenery for what was to follow. I will admit this track initially had me a little confused as I heard there was going to be a dance influence on this record and what I was hearing in ... read more
Edit 11/04/2025 67 -> 75: I was high on a bag of dicks and a hand full of pretention apparently when I first listened to this. I don't know what else to say really.
I had fun with it especially kraj.
Track Ratings
ruke: 58 -> 61
za tebe: 65 -> Same (65)
ona zna: 62 -> 63
vatra: 68 -> 100
kraj: 80 -> Same (80)
This thing despite claiming to be super self aware is the exact opposite of that. In fact it is just downright mean spirted a lot of the time. Fuck this.
Not for me, I was cool with some of the instrumentation in the first track but the vocals were not doing it. Second track entirely wasn't doing it for me, I feel like I need more behind it like an album to get it. Whoospie Poopsies.
It had enough charm to keep me entertained throughout my listen but nothing that blew me away.
Track Ratings
Death note: 60
noWy baTmAN: 62
StaRlink: 65
NIENAWIDZĘ ******!: 45
jem zimnego tosta: 64
OPIUM!: 75
nóż motylkowy: 52
zabiłem motyla: 50
RysunKOwY PoTwóR: 42
Przyjdzie taki dzień gdy będę wolny: 40
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