Didn’t love this as much as others clearly do, I’ve seen it rated best of 2025 by some people but I don’t think it deserves quite that high praise, despite still being really great
Thank you @MichaelLamarche for the rec!! A really solid release here with some interesting production, still feels a bit thin in places but no doubt this has potential to sound really great
Very heavy on the ambient melodyies and as such is less lyrical than “Hendryx’s” other projects but really beautiful and hits even harder when peggy gets on the beat
Really feels like a culmination of some of the best Deftones albums, goes hard but sounded a bit simplistic in places
Yet another great release from Liam McCay, genuinely impressive how this guy can have ~17 projects and still pull out really solid albums like this
A rare L from this website, such an emotional slowcore project filled with harrowing lyrics and beautiful yet depressing instrumentals
The production game in contemporary hip hop never ceases to disappoint, could’ve certainly been higher if I’d been able to understand the undoubtedly hard bars these guys were dropping
Revisiting after over 6 months and I’ve finally trained my ears enough to realise how hard this shit is
An album packed with so much emotion and accompanied with such great instrumental variance, definitely worth the relisten
A relisten because my previous rating was obviously criminally below where it deserved to be, potentially peak indie music, Paul Banks' voice just hits a special spot in my brain
Really interesting timings and instrumental variation, very easy to listen to while being interesting enough that it doesn't get boring
The first half unfortunately sounded a bit shallow and grainy, as if I was listening to this being performed from down a long echoing hallway, it was only towards the end where we got to see something productionally interesting happen
Genuinely shocked to find out this wasn’t made in the 80s, such a heavy synth presence which brought something interesting to the album, just a shame that versatility is not this albums strength…
Not the strongest SatB record I’ve heard, but had some interesting orchestral moments and maintained a thick grungy atmosphere throughout
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