BENEE has a few standout hooks, but she's otherwise a generally sounding alt-pop musician.
The Uncle Al fatigue is really hitting me, and I feel like even the usual potent writing of Armand Hammer is lacking. Just feels like a release that didn't need to be.
It's very inspiring and heartwarming to see Danny blossom in this way, getting healthy and sober, and making new friends to make music with. The themes are potent and cathartic, but I think that Danny's pop leanings in his writing can feel bland compared to what I know he's capable of. In addition, the tracklist feels somewhat disjointed with its splash of various producers and primary features. Though the concepts and experimentation don't all come together too well, it ... read more
Wow, this is such a haunting world. Possibly Big Blood's best production across the board, with walls of layered sounds that sweep you into a cold trance. It feels like another dimension. It's brilliant.
Love to see the homie RJ making art. It's quaint, it's enjoyable. Keep at it, mane.
Sometimes it's genuinely beautiful despite how odd the collaboration may sound, flipping between two genres of metal and primitivism.
It's pretty epic, though I wish the writing and production were a little bolder, the album's message itself has the guts to leave a catharsis for those invested.
Fun ideas is going on here, but it's otherwise pretty standard, handsome, sad boy Gen Z country.
A 16-track debut is a bit self-indulgent, but there's still a solid string of tracks to sink your teeth into before the record starts to drag. Some of the best writing I've seen in this cleanly produced style of Americana indie folk.
Love this lowkey. The recording and production are so interesting. It sounds both warm and broken, like they straight-up recorded it poorly. Basslines are fat and distorted, and drums sit in the background like a lo-fi version of The Beatles. While the songs themselves aren't the most insane things ever written, I think the style and vibes are so potent that they trump a lot of what lacks about this record.
Big Blood has become a recent obsession of mine, so I need to express how hesitant of a 6 this gets. I so nearly love it, and I want to. First of all, the last 6 tracks are stellar. The classic distorted folk rock of the first 5 tracks just started to feel so grating after a time, especially by Big Blood standards, which was a disappointment. They still prove themselves to be a strikingly fascinating group with this record.
Big Blood falls into a repetitive style of songwriting, and while it's not bad, it certainly has many kinks that aren't worked out, like this record having Quinnisa's first writing credits, which can randomly turn this subtle folk record into a highschooler's angst poem.
Ms. Tiffany's writing and production stands out in a world of TikTok-ified Gen Z artists spamming trends and singles to appease algorithms. She's got lots of room still to grow, but this still proves she's a young popstar to look out for.
A genuinely impressive debut for a hip-hop group that carries so much chemistry and is able to produce and write in such a genre free record. Whether grouptherapy somehow returns, or PARTYOF2 remains permanent, I hope these guys continue expressing and growing in their musical skills, because there's a lot of potential here.
The nature of reviewing this album is odd to me, so it feels important to address that this is a reissue. bôa's debut record "The Race of A Thousand Camels" was released with 3 new tracks and an alternate tracklist where Duvet, made popular by it's being an anime intro, was put to intro the record. I don't think this is a bad or harmful decision, but I do think it's important to reflect on when thinking about the place this art comes from in terms of the ... read more
Zack's third independent album is full of collaborative ideas and creative pop and R&B production, all presented under the character concept of Snoey the Yeti who is shunned for singing, and falls in love with a human woman. However, Snoey seems more like a quirky set-dressing for the aesthetics of this current album cycle than a narrative core. The tracks across the album come and go rather quickly before really spending the time to allow them to build any weight.
This may be your favorite Springsteen album if the minimalism scratches the right itch.
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