A very very good song that is not just one of the best from Eurovision 2019, but one of the most artistically distinctive. The instrumental made up of telephone ringtones is unique and really fits the lyrical corpus of the track.

Very solid hyperpop

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The latest album from Weyes Blood is a solemn trip through human emotion, human minds, and how the last few years have been tough on us all. The production of the album is stellar from front to back (save for one gripe I have with the percussion on Twin Flame), and Natalie's lyricism is absolutely fair to class as poetry when taken away from the musical backing. A truly brilliant album that always sounds cohesive while always having something new to add. If I had to give one solid criticism, it ... read more

I really enjoyed the SAWAYAMA album for all its bombastic revelry in its own unpolishedness. This album is not anywhere near as interesting or exciting to listen to as SAWAYAMA was. I think the new attention on Rina has caused her to release an album that is perhaps best described as being Disney Channel-core with all of its overly polished, uninteresting pop rock. I also feel like the producers on this were well-aware that it had a good chance of coming across as just overly sanitised ... read more

This makes SloMo passable and that was an absolutely abysmal generic attempt at reggaetón dreamed up only to get clout from Kyle Hanagami. This is utterly and completely shambolic, from the awful boring GarageBand special they call a beat, to Chanel's lifeless performance of the verses (at least she seemed to care on SloMo), all the way through the hook of "toke toke toke toke" repeated ad infinatum until you think a Spotify track is somehow skipping. Shit.

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While the highs of this project are anthemic, banging highs that sound just lovely, the lows are sadly as low as anything that Mori produced under her DEMONDICE alias. Generally, I prefer the mixing and instrumentation on these tracks to Mori's vocal performance and lyricism, which won't be a shock to anyone. It's a lot better of a project than she gets credit for, I might re-listen to most of these tracks.

For such a hyped album, I can't pretend I'm not a little bit disappointed with this one. Now, there isn't anything massively wrong with it- if you ignore the really unsavoury and transphobic lyrics of Auntie Diaries- but there are enough little nitpicks that it does drag my scoring of the album down somewhat. I still did enjoy the album though, so please don't take this as being a negative review of the album.

Midnight is... mid. It has some very good aspects to it- namely the incredibly juicy pop production on
some of the tracks and the confidence with which Taylor performs the tracks. However, the album also
has massive pitfalls. For example, the lyrics of many tracks come across as unsympathetic and massively
unlikable.

Of all the people who could bring something beneficial to Björk's most Icelandic, personal album yet, one would not have expected an Indonesian gabber duo to do so well. But they did, lending a hand to this glorious travelling circus of death, life, and mushrooms. This album is truly something special and artistically sound, and it seems unlikely anything this year, at least, will top Fossora's brilliance.

Amy Love and Georgia South have received critical acclaim for this foray into industrial rap-rock and I think it is completely justified. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. It's not fine-tuned and, in places, the mix is dodgy, drowning out the vocals. But, it's a very very solid start indeed, and I think with time, we'll see some absolute modern classics from Nova Twins. I really enjoyed this album.

Terrible jokes and downright disrespectful to the contest.

Whilst Queensland punkers The Chats couldn't replicate the memetic quality of their viral hit 'Smoko' on this project, they have clocked up thirteen very good quality songs that show off how intelligent they actually are. Revelling in the classist stereotypes held towards Bogans and working-class folk in Australia, they also show a political wit and sharp tongue that fits the tumultuous times in the nation, from Scott Morrison's accession to every single cabinet job to the ongoing class divide, ... read more

Melbourne's finest psychedelic rockers bring us a double album full of incredible genre-shifting, elite guitar playing, exceptional composition, and an unparalleled, inimitable listening experience. Just listening to the 18-minute opener, it becomes clear that this is no regular album, and instead is a true artistic force of the 2020s. It may be September, but this is already album of the year.

From Afrobeat to kalindula, this project is undoubtedly and undeniably an ode to African culture and, if I assess it as that, it seems to me- as an outsider- damn good. However, I'm here to assess it as an album of music. With the exception of the penultimate track, the production and mixing is amazing. Unfortunately, the biggest letdown on this album is Sampa's flow and delivery. A disappointment, but still good. Just a shame that it could, and should, have been so much better.

Very solid pop song, a good follow up to the banger that is 'SPACE MAN'. Excited for the LP.

Lover is an album where the highs- namely 'Cornelia Street' and 'Soon You'll Get Better' are actually very good indeed, but the lows range from just being dull as dishwater to tone-deaf virtue signaling. Taylor's label really needed to take a pair of scissors to this tracklist and remove 3 or 4 songs to stop it being just as boring and bloated as it is. Pop's biggest white elephant album of the last decade.

The mixing is sludgy and gives the song an almost decaying aura to it. Gerard's vocal abilities have come a long way from earlier My Chemical Romance projects. The song itself is well-written, better performed, and really shows an evolved, modern MCR.

Koffee, artistic alias of Jamaican artist Mikayla Simpson, is one of the most popular reggae and dancehall artists today, and her album Gifted gives a really great insight as to why. It's packed with wit in its lyrics, incredible groove and flow in the instrumentation and vocals, and its genre-hopping allows Simpson to show her incredible versatility and multifaceted talent. The only way is up.