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cant tell if they’ve actually gotten way worse or if my tolerance for this kind of music is just in the shitter

yo i did a full youtube review of this https://youtu.be/PYpvTxQ-kPY

short quick review: this thing is awesome. weird cross between crazy edm and 90's shibuya-kei. it's produced perfectly and bounces back and forth with ease. kinda reminds me of the pasocom music club album from this year, and just like that album it's fantastic

oh wow this is even worse than i thought

dream has assembled a collection here of 7 of the most vapid and soulless pop songs ever created. these instrumentals sound like they were shat out by some AI program designed to take the most annoying sad boy music tropes and incoherently slap them together. this was perfectly designed to get on an h&m playlist and drive one of the employees to vehicular manslaughter with how bad and annoying it is. i'm not sure if dream was contracted by ... read more

i've listened to 7/10 of this guy's albums and all of them except the first two have 1-2 good songs and then everything else is filler

as a girl who does not personally love jungle i have bad news for these two

after listening to three of her albums i have come to the conclusion that iri is the most 7/10 artist of all time

her best release so far

this is noticeably more organized and consistent (thematically and musically) than a lot of his earlier work, but it's also the first time i've heard a project from him and gone "that's something i've heard before". half the reason i like him is the disorganized chaos and weird mash of ideas he tends to present. this is disappointing on that front

written for youtube, link at the end

Welcome to a review of the new Local Visions and Yuka Nagase collab album, OACL. This album brings together 9 producers from Japanese electronic label Local Visions, and lets them work with vtuber/virtual idol Yuka Nagase. Despite involving vtubers and young electronic producers, this album is more like an 80’s throwback than anything else, with all the electronic pop styles that were popular then. It’s also pretty cohesive, which is impressive ... read more

weird album. the first 5 songs here are fairly typical city pop and then with no warning the last 5 songs are house. the second half is a little better but not by much, they're both just fine overall.

the instrumental is quite good but the entire time i'm left feeling like this would be amazing if it was a normal TK song. instead it's just mid

still confused as to how this fairly middle-of-the-road j-rock band continues to be extremely commercially successful in the face of a million other identical sounding bands, many of whom sound just like saucy dog but better

lyrical school has turned from a fun girl idol group to a bunch of music execs throwing anything they think will be popular with kids in a blender and then forgetting to ever turn the blender off. this is the most corporate sounding shit i have ever heard in my life

the title track here is hyperpop, rap, and noise rock all the same time what the fuck is going on

absolutely fucking terrible song yet simultaneously the best thing to ever come out of plano texas

TMP's full debut album "Vector" is kinda iffy but this is one of the most immediately fun and catchy songs i've heard in a while. great stuff

if you've ever wanted to hear surf bungaku kamakura but slightly worse in every possible way, i have the album for you!

starkids member levi comes through on his (sophomore??) album with 20 minutes of fast and fun digicore. more than any other rap group the members of starkids feel like they're having a ton of fun, and it shines through on their records. highlight is the great run from tracks 5-8

lil soft tennis (yes that is an incredible artist name) is throwing a ton of shit at the wall here, and while not all of it works, i'm always down to hear stuff like this that actually pushes boundaries. it also feels pretty cohesive considering it shoves 9 songs full of different styles in 23 minutes so that's worth some bonus points

naming ur ep MID and putting it in giant letters on the cover is an interesting choice, especially when it's actually really good