I've been struggling to keep working on my review for this album, so I'll leave this placeholder here for now. Hopefully, I can work more on it soon! But for now, have this: this was undoubtedly the best and the worst album experience I've ever had.
I 100% thought I would've rated this lower than Exoplanet, but the opposite happened?! This is a point higher somehow...
Well thinking about it a bit more, I get it. Apparition is basically Exoplanet if it didn't have fluff in it and three extra tracks: two short interludes and one killer track. Though the production is arguably worse, I happen to really enjoy it, and sometimes I even prefer it. In Eyes: Closed, the section after the chill break has the vocals reverberated to the ... read more
Paper Me is a pretty cute little EP with significantly less cybergrind portions than his other material despite originally being made over a decade ago. And yeah, it's fun :)
My favorite track is the first; it just has more energy than the rest and is more interesting production-wise, and is similar to that of Perfect Life & Other Stuff except more laid back. Why World? does keep up energy, but feels slightly more empty than Be Nice (the first track). The last three songs are in ... read more
Gosh I'm very slow at reviews... anyway IM GREEPING SO HARD
I didn't listen to much albums that released in 2024 when they came out, but almost every one I did was great! A Lonely Sinner, Monarch of Monsters, and The New Sound is NOT an exception! I have no prior experience with black midi so the chaotic nature of this album really caught me off guard, but in a good way! The only frame of reference I had was the genre tags, which was why I decided to listen to this in the first ... read more
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