This is where it all started. The birthing point of hyperpop. This is really cool in retrospect, because all of the major styles that would developed in the genre are already present in a somewhat rudimentary form here. There's hints of the spastic and unpredictable style that would later be developed by 100 gecs and the current hyperpop underground, the poppy, glistening production of A. G Cook is in full force on his phenomenal song "Beautiful" and there's little tastes of the ... read more

Sure this isn't as huge and lush as later Beach House albums, but it's incredibly beautiful in it's own way. It's a lot smaller in scale, but as a result of that it feels more personal and more direct. I also find these more subdued songs a lot more inviting for further exploration than I find a lot of the later material by the band. It's Lo-Fi sound doesn't only do good for it though. The incredible eargasm moments from later albums aren't here yet and the singing isn't always great but for ... read more

This fucking sucks.

This takes the sound of Chiastic Slide and adds more glitch elements to it. The result is disappointing, especially after the first track "Yeesland", which is a straight up banger. Everything that comes after gets just more and more boring. I hope Autechre takes the ideas from this and builds them into something actually interesting on LP5.

Same honestly.

This is a fucking fever dream and I love it. Not every moment is perfect, but the overall experience is amazing. I think I said yesterday that this music is like ripping your brain out and replacing it with ironic memes you printed out on neon coloured paper, cheap energy drinks and weed. I think that accurately describes how this feels.

I'm surprised, but I love this. At first I was put off by how eclectic and messy the beats on here are, but I ended up loving it for that exact quality. It's spastic and absurd at times, but I just find it incredibly fun to dive into that. The lyrics are filled with witty one-liners that are delivered in a wild variety of styles ranging from hyper aggressive to melancholic.
And I obviously have to mention the Silver Mt. Zion sample. It's an unexpected and perplexing, but very cool ... read more

This is amazing. It's a maelstrom of incredibly textured synthetics that in one moment pound you with a sledgehammer just to carry you on a soft bed of clouds. There's a wide variety of styles here, ranging from catchy hyperpop to ambient to industrial. This is at the same time this album's biggest strength and it's biggest weakness. On one hand it never gets boring, but the transitions are pretty drastic sometimes and hurt the flow of the album a bit. Every single song is so great though that ... read more

This is just really boring. It isn't bad, but it isn't good either. I don't really have any strong feelings about this.

This album's combination of drone metal with shoeagazey vocals and overall aesthetics is certainly interesting. It creates a unique sonic landscape to dive into, that it's highest points is incredibly haunting, but at it's lowest it can really drag. It's structured like one long piece, allowing for a really cool flow from one climax to the next that invites the listener to completely lose themselves in the album. This is helped by the subtle shifts in texture throughout the whole thing. Sadly ... read more

Sure this is gentrified hipster indie pop, but it's just so fun. A lot of these songs are objectively corny and a lot of the energy that made the Arctic Monkeys so fun in the first place isn't here, but it's still a great ride and the singles are amazing.

This just feels like a lesser version of Ziggy Stardust. Sure there are great songs on here (Watch that Man, Time, The Jean Genie), but it's missing the overall cohesion and momentum of Ziggy Stardust.

This is just the same as the album, but this time it's shorter and they rip off led zeppelin even more shamelessly and as a result it's way better.

Anything remotely interesting about this is absolutely obliterated by the God awful vocalist. How can one man be so technically proficient, but so amazingly unlikable at the same time. His corniness makes me want to puke.
Proposed ways to improve this album:
1. Release just the instrumental from the opener, but like 2 minutes shorter.
2. Fire every band member except the bassist and the drummer.
3. Take their reverb pedals away.
4. Hit them all with a baseball bat until they start making music ... read more

I think most of my thoughts on Worry apply to this as well. The songwriting is consistently great, with highlights such as "I'm serious I'm sorry", which is simultaneously one of the most catchy and most heartbreaking songs I've ever heard. This also has the usual amazing Jeff flow and the feeling of being in a crowd, singing along to his songs that I love so much. The only downside is the track "polar bear or Africa", that feels, while still really good, a bit of a let down ... read more

This is subdued and slow, but there's so much beauty and an incredible raw emotional power in these songs that takes a while to sink in. And once they do these songs slowly transform from kinda bland and sad indie pop into monumental pieces that feel like floating through a world that's falling apart. This is in many ways an album fitting of a year like this.

This shit is fucking fire, these guys are goated fr bro.
Also that album cover is amazing, I wonder who made that...

This is just pure fun. It's 30 minutes of fast flowing ska punk. If it weren't for the vocal snippets inbetween some songs, this would be one of the smoothest flowing albums I ever heard.

I have written multiple reviews for this album already and I don't want to repeat myself with my ramblings about the concept and the insanly good songwriting, so I'll write about something else that this album made me think about.
There is a certain magic to some art that I can't really explain. It's what makes this album so good, it's what propells an album from a masterpiece I can admire and enjoy to something beyond that touches me deeply and that I can completely lose myself in. It's what ... read more

The moments where this album works are pure magic. Sadly it doesn't work all that well as an album. There are these more abstract parts inbetween, that just don't do it for me. I'm always waiting for the next explosion of tight sequencers and the disjointed vocal sample heavy more open parts just feel like something you have to get through to get to those moments. Oh and the ambient/drone parts are actually really nice too.