I'm rewriting this review because I felt like my original one lacked the genuine emotion this album fills me with.
SMILE :D was my most highly anticipated album of the year. Since it was first teased in February of this year with a fake video essay from the future, before we even knew what the album was called or how it would sound; I was already at the peak of excitement. Nurture had only recently become my favourite album of all time after listening to it in the summer of 2023. I fell ... read more
Whole performance was sick as fuck and outside of the great storytelling and visuals in the livestream itself, the songs and remixes hold their own super well. I genuinely find myself coming to Heathens/Trees and Lane Boy/Redecorate/Chlorine more than the original versions of those songs.