Thank you for the recommendation, @RobiBlueX! I hope that worked. This is my first ever recommendation, so don’t lynch me if I messed it up lol, and sorry it took so long.
Woah, okay. I didn’t know what to expect coming into this album. I’m so used to looking at the genre list beforehand that, when I inevitably saw nothing, I was curious. I assumed going into it that this album would contain some rock components, and while that was a good assumption, nothing could have ... read more

I did not expect that voice 15 seconds into this album. This album, with its highs and lows, is such a rollercoaster of emotions for me. This is definitely not for everyone, even if you really enjoy noise pop and experimental projects. Starting with the elephant in the room, the vocals. The autotune on some of these songs is seriously not for me. And even when there isn’t any obvious autotune being used, there’s just this high-pitched voice that feels forced to me, like it’s ... read more

My first introduction to the genre name “pigfuck.” Wow. Anyways I apologize for not doing anything for the past three weeks because I had pneumonia and it was really bad. But I’m good now! As always, the genres caught my attention right away, especially the aforementioned one called pigfuck. It is loud. It is aggressive. It is up in your face… up until around halfway through. Maybe it’s just me, but this album just slows down when it doesn’t need to. I do ... read more

I don’t know what I could possibly say that hasn’t been said yet. This is just one of the greatest albums I’ve ever listened to, and I’ve been listening to wetdream for the past year or so now. Its quality hasn’t dropped a bit for me. This is the hardest review I’ve had to make, not because the score itself was hard to pinpoint, but because I want to do this album justice. It’s difficult for me to put into words how much I care about this project. ... read more

This album is a blast from the past, and not because I haven’t listened to it in over a year, but a lot of little details from this came flooding back. Indietronica and Electropop are genres I’ve only touched with the top of my big toe, as they’re genres I never really found myself terribly interested in. Still, I came across this album, unsure of what kind of music I was into. And honestly, this kind of music isn’t my thing, but I can appreciate the effort put into ... read more

I like this album, please don’t torture me for having the title track being on the backend of my song rankings on this album. Just wasn’t my thing… anyways, this is the same artist who made wetdream, so of course I’ll be tapping into this, and okay wow I really like it… a lot. This isn’t as noisy or in your face as WillyRodriguez was, but it’s certainly energetic, and I can tell drug bug put a lot of passion into this. The vocals on here have slowly ... read more

Furry recommended this album to me, said it sounded like wetdream. Gave it a listen. Something about emo and slacker rock activates a neuron in my brain that whispers to me, “you will listen to this, and you are going to like it,” and I more than often do enjoy it. Just give me noisy guitars, good vocals, and a bunch of energy, and I’ll be very happy. Now there are times on here that slow down a little bit, like in raphaim, but I honestly like the toned-down segments here ... read more

I don’t know how I came across Robin Callaway. Maybe it was scrolling on social media and coming across a live performance? Or maybe I found them on AOTY? It’s so surreal how this is one of the very few artists where I can’t trace where I first found out about them, and it led me to discover one of my favorite albums I’ve ever listened to. There’s so much I can say about this project; the vocal performance, the instrumentation (especially the guitars omg), and how ... read more

I’ll start by saying I love the distorted guitar and vocals in Cleric Girl, they’re, like, really good. But this EP starts to fall short in the middle, starting with Lucille. It felt like the song was struggling to move forward, and while this normally wouldn’t be an issue for me, the fast and upbeat nature of the first song, followed up by this track, felt a little lackluster. The same can be said for the next two songs, just to a lesser extent. I want to point out that I do ... read more

10 seconds in, and I’m being bombarded with a whole bunch of noise, but it’s to be expected from black midi. I love that, in some of the songs, there’s this slow progression of noise that builds up throughout and explodes at you with a wide variety of instruments for half a minute. That’s a major reason why John L and Chondromalacia Patella are some of my favorites from this album, and I’m slightly disappointed that the rest of the album doesn’t carry that ... read more

This album gives a vibe no other album can give. It has this weird, niche emo sound to it. And although it isn’t listed as a genre, I can definitely feel some punk embedded in some tracks like FIRE4FUN. Some of the lyrics can be a little awkward at times, like in BIGSHOT, which can make it a hard listen sometimes, but a lot of the instrumentals sound really good, especially in RE: CONCERNS. Every song has its own feel, and while I’d often criticize an album for not having a coherent ... read more

At first, I didn’t like this album all that well. And it’s weird, too, because I often really enjoy noise rock and noise pop, but after relistening to it days later, I find it to be such a vibe. A lot of the melodies and instrumentals present here are really memorable and make me nod my head while I’m listening to them. The vocals here are also really soothing, kind of reminding me of Clarion and feeble little horse, which surprisingly work well with the noise that suffocates ... read more

This is a pretty solid shoegaze EP with solid production and a good vocal performance, despite being unable to understand the lyrics and unable to find a translation for them. The 2nd and 3rd songs are really good, kind of reminding me of an anime opening sometimes. But the last two songs are where the album starts to fall off a little bit for me. They don’t maintain the momentum and energy that was prevalent in the previous two tracks, and the transition from PICNIC to スイート Q ... read more

Back in 2025, I was in an extreme album drought; looking for anything rock-related I could, something I could have on repeat for a week. After scrolling and trying dozens of albums, I came across 867, and I have to say, enjoying a jazz-prog album to this extent was not on my bingo card. To be fair, though, this album covers so many bases when it comes to music genres, and it’s so much more than just indie/jazz-rock. The instrumental and production are easily the best part of this album by ... read more

I never want to come back to this album or anything else like it, for that matter. But I can’t give it anything lower or higher than a 90. There’s something so painful that spiral staircase scarily gets done correctly, and I’m actually worried for the artists’ safety. These are some of the darkest, depressing, and gut-wrenching lyrics I’ve ever heard or seen, and I can’t even imagine what someone goes through to have so much anger and despair poured into an ... read more

Maybe I’m just not the target audience for femtanyl. This really just isn’t for me. I’ve seen so many people praise this EP for being hype and noisy, and they loved it, but the amount of glitch effects and, well, the glitchiness in general just doesn’t satisfy my ears. But the biggest problem I have here is the lyrics. Not necessarily that I can’t understand what she’s saying, which I can’t, but the effects and distortion used on them make it hard to ... read more

I want to start by saying that I really enjoy the vocal performance on this project. It reminds me a lot of julie with this sort of calming and aggressive energy. It’s so similar and yet distinct that I can’t help but love it. And I’m even more surprised with how good this EP is, considering this is Clarion’s first project. The sort of chaotic yet vibey instrumentals elevate this EP a lot as well, and the elevation of said instruments in some songs, like Sunhail48, works ... read more

Song length means a lot when it comes to enjoyability. Sometimes songs can drag on for too long, or they’re so short that it leaves you wanting more. No other album proves the latter than Girl with Fish, as 11 songs in 26 minutes is not a lot of time to fully flesh out every song to its fullest potential. The average song length is 2 minutes and 20 seconds. Although the song scores might be seen as low, I think most of the songs are serviceable at worst, and some of these are absolute ... read more

Honestly, I was not a huge fan of the first song, and it didn’t really strike “noise rock” to me. Sure, there were rock elements, but it wasn’t what I was looking for necessarily. But then, after Pest, I got hooked with that noisiness and pressed on. I was doubting myself by the time Vitality Glitch played, as each song was progressively getting more exhausting, but The Wallflower Equation just threw that speculation out the window. I’m not typically a post rock ... read more

So uh… this album is so loud you could call it a noisehigh… okay I’m sorry. Anyways is it weird that this album makes me feel like I’m listening to breakcore? Look, if an album is noisy and has a great vocal performance, I can’t not like it, and that’s exactly what Robin Callaway does. I don’t know how a guitar works, I’ve never played one in my life, but it absolutely rocks on here, and it takes front stage here, even more so than i saw an ... read more