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Nemo, who burst to popularity with their popera track The Code during Eurovision 2024, releases an album that isn't really a follow-up to the track that started it all. This album is much more comfortably sat within the bounds of pop music which feels something of a let down when the more artsy songs like Unexplainable are so damn good - but that certainly doesn't make the album bad.

There's some absolute bops on this album. Eurostar, Casanova, and - of course - The Code all rip ... read more

This album is no doubt a long and winding road, and it absolutely revels in being that way. It tells a story not just lyrically but aurally. You are allowed a window into this expansive, dry, and mostly empty world that the characters of this album inhabit. The use of classic country americana ideas in this project reflects the world that Hayden grew up in, in small-town Florida. Despite being a story, it feels personal, heartfelt, touching. This is what sonic beauty sounds like.

I do generally make it a policy not to review Suno AI projects but I would say that The NKD Martins are actually more than a cheap cash-in project; they're satirical and comedic and the poor quality AI music actually adds to the concept. An arena rock song bursting into a trumpet solo is a little more permissible when the song is already about a urine protector on a mattress.

The humour and comedy of this album isn't exactly accessible. It revels in the fact it's so very deep ... read more

Just as phenomenal as expected.

I really enjoyed this album. Every time you think you have it figured out, it just hits you with something else from another angle. Although, it could do without the feature from an 11 year old; that's actually just weird.

British rapper Lynks released his first album in 2024, against a backdrop in British society of a rollback of LGBTQ+ rights under the right-wing governments of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer. I mention this for the reason that this album is unashamedly, hedonistically queer and revels in its list of gay club bangers. With that said, it's just a shame that Lynks isn't actually a very good rapper, and brings down good production on a number of the songs.

Some very solid moments in here - typical Weird Al chicanery with a clear passion for pop music.

At only sixteen years of age (upon the album's release), Olena Usenko of Bila Tserkva, Ukraine has a long and likely very prosperous career ahead of her. Her debut album is certainly a sign that she's already very aware of her own identity and sound and she's able to execute it near flawlessly. I only wish for a little more uniqueness within the tracks as, at times, the album felt very samey and like it dragged on.

Bro got ethered.

I really should have not started doing my 2024 catchup list in alphabetical order. I now hate music.

Reading a little bit about who Acidgvrl is outside of the faceless albums makes me come to a very simple
conclusion as regards this project. It's perhaps the only thing Acidgvrl has ever done that is even more
unsavoury than their general behaviour towards other artists. The only stupid pink girl here is whoever
thought this was fit for release.

This is objectively awful but come on... it's high camp.

Compa's Christmas Calendar - Day 2

When you think of The Backstreet Boys, the quintessential boyband, you probably don't think of very mediocre mid-tempo doo-wop aimed at the mother demographic. That's what this is. There's only two pop songs on the album and, whilst toothless and unoriginal, they're the best things on here. A huge disappointment from a band who are capable of much much more. The lead singer drops a slur on about the third line of The Christmas Song. I'm not being hyperbolic ... read more

Compa's Christmas Calendar - Day 1

Yes it's late. I know. We move.

This is a project that is absolutely renowned as being carried by one song. You know exactly which one. And really, with the exception of the fourth track, that's pretty true. A lot of what this project offers is reworkings of traditional hymns whose solemnity and reverence is somewhat spoilt by the belts and vocal runs that seem to be a prerequisite of a Mariah Carey performance. It could be a lot worse, but this is also ... read more

From what I've heard from Singaporean artist yeule's discography previously and from the reviews on AOTY, I was expecting some kind of transgressive modern classic. I don't think softscars is that. I think it's a very solid album for people who are into this style of music, but that it does suffer from monotony in places and a sense of being tryhard and full of artifice in other places.

This album lies with its very title. It is many things but high-concept is not one of them. The concept is just taking all the interesting concepts that the likes of Olivia Rodrigo and Miley Cyrus have and amalgamating and appropriating them into a saccharine mess devoid of identity. I can't give it much lower because it's not morally reprehensible and it all sounds fairly professionally made.

Bro thinks he's MIKA.

I will admit I went into this album already expecting that I wasn't going to like it. I didn't realise quite how much, however, I was going to dislike it. The one common thread throughout this album is the Met brothers all coming across as arrogant and sanctimonious, while also absolutely barren of any truthful emotionality. Even a track as authentic as 'God is Really Real' comes across like they don't have any actual emotions and are just writing what they think human ... read more

It's a well-worn axiom that music made by YouTubers or Twitch streamers is terrible. However, Brighton indie rock singer James Marriott has bucked that trend with his debut LP. This is a really well-produced and brilliantly written project that clearly was born from pain and struggle. I really enjoyed it but I do recognise that you have to enjoy the sound of modern British indie to really get the worth of it.

Being the Temu version of Olivia Rodrigo didn't work, so she switched to being the Temu version of Charli XCX. It also doesn't work. Tate McRae may genuinely be the most unimaginative, unoriginal, creatively bankrupt of the generically pretty industry plants that popped up in the last five years to sell records to teenage girls who think their first breakup is something profound no-one else has ever experienced.

short but pretty entertaining. love the bar "these girls poo poo but i'm a bitch that shits"