FAVORITE TRACK: The Theme For This Evening's Warm Dinner Salad

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Lambert Goes To Dinner

Sun Soaking is a fantastic experimental album if you're just looking at the instrumentation. It's unique and unlike anything we've heard coming out of this new wave of emo. Lobsterfight includes electronic aspects mixed with this orchestral and sweeping emo sound that is reminiscent of The World Is A Beautiful Place and Brave Little Abacus. The lyrics on this are also beautiful and ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Loose

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Angel Of Business

Grace Ives is a girl who is having fun living in New York and on Janky Star she makes it everyone's problem.

Janky Star is a short and bright pop project. It's not boundary pushing but Grace Ives knows her talent and how to make herself likable throughout every song.

FAVORITE TRACK: You're Not Famous Anymore

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Reason to Believe

I love Joyce Manor and I love to have fun. You guys are just being haters.

After a pretty bad release four years ago, Joyce Manor is back and they're doing what they do best: short power-punk tracks. The guitars on this are fast-paced and hard hitting on tracks like You're Not Famous Anymore and the re-recording of NBTSA. 40 oz. To Fresno has so many fun and carefree songs that are sparked to life by Barry ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Rafter Man

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: The Collector

What this Uranium Club record lacks compared to the one that followed Human Exploration is its lack of continuity. The lyrics on this album are less engaging because the lyrics are just very typical weird, post-punk lyrics that don't make any sense. In that sense it makes the album a very average punk record.

The instrumentation on this is great, though. There's a guitar riff on Rafter Man and Operation that do highlight the ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Opus

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: The Lottery

Uranium Club is a post-punk band from Minneapolis, but they tell you all that on the first track of this album so you don't need some lady on the internet to tell you the backstory. All of Them Naturals is the band's 2nd EP and follows an ongoing storyline that makes Uranium Club's music feel like if The Dead Milkmen were in a sci-fi movie. The introduction track sets up the backstory, but I feel some songs don't fit into the alien, ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Christmas Card

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: None

You guys don't get this album like I do 19 minutes of pure fucking bliss

FAVORITE TRACK: Birthday Party

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: -

I was in the hospital from December to February. I was very, very sick and my illness has taken everything from me- including my drive to write reviews or even listen to new music. It's so so miserable to not be able to get the joy out of something I used to do every single day and when I sit here and try to force myself to write, I can't. And I wish I could find the proper motivation to write a real review for this album because I think ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Matilda

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Grapejuice

Really, really surprised by the low rating of this. Harry's House is Styles' best album by light years. He seems to have finally found his footing in his lyrics- with every song encapsulating the theme of being in love and normalcy with that. If someone wrote Keep Driving about me, I would jump through a window I think.

I think this is a really funky album, which is a left field for Harry Styles but it works. The groovy baseline of ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Mountain Dew Me

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: None

LOUDMOUTH is a supergroup made up of Mom Jeans and Just Friends member. It's a really short and enjoyable album- clocking in at only eleven minutes long with seven songs. The songs are very pop-punk and all about growing up and summer. It's very reminiscent of 2000s blink-182, which isn't a bad thing. I think this LOUDMOUTH record is as great collection of short, "I Need to Get Out of This Town" type songs.

FAVORITE TRACK: REPENT NOW, CONFESS NOW

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: None

I want to rewrite my review for this album with it now being almost a year old, knowing the context behind it and hearing it live last night.

SINNER GET READY is a bone-chilling experience. The empty and lonely instrumentals of tracks like MANY HANDS and MAN IS LIKE A SPRING FLOWER create this horrifying and intense atmosphere. Kristin Hayter's use of unconventional instruments that sound sparse and dirty create this sound of ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Butterfly Bulletholes

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Lie Love Lullaby

Girlpool's latest release is an introspective look into the band's career. Their use of dreamy lyrics on Violet, Junkie, Butterfly Bulletholes and Afterlife really help shape the image of lynchian and beautiful that the duo tries to bring forth on Forgiveness. The mix of strange and interesting sounds of Love333, Faultline and Dragging My Life into a Dream helps bring a new dimension to the dreamy shift in sound ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Happy New Year

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Half Light

Let's Eat Grandma is an art pop duo from the UK. They've released two great pop records that infuse synth and weird art moments to highlight the duo's voices. But the duo has faced a lot of hardship between their last release and Happy New Year- with the COVID pandemic and one of the member's boyfriend passing away. Two Ribbons is Let's Eat Grandma's return and what a grand return it is.

Two Ribbons is beautiful. In its moments ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Inside Out

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Cop Poet

This album was such a big part of my formative years that I would be nothing without it. My life was forever changed when I heard "If there' s a cool spot in hell, I hope you get it". Life changing shit in this for a 14 year old.

FAVORITE TRACK: Hexie Mountains

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: City of Gold

Orville Peck is going to TOWN on these vocals, man.

Orville Peck is a masked cowboy and country singer from Canada. If you're not listening to him after knowing that, I don't know what to tell you. Back in 2019, Peck completely blew me away with the release of Pony with his ability to blend his soulful, Johnny Cash-like vocals and make this fun and retro-sounding country music. I've been a huge fan of everything he's released ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Being in Love

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Oh No

Wet Leg is the name that's been in everyone's mouth when it comes to new indie acts. The duo seemingly blew up out of nowhere, with their catchy and personal summery release of Chaise Lounge in mid 2021. Since then, Wet Leg has been providing playful and fresh songs leading to the release of their debut.

I've mentioned it before, I really hate when half the songs come out as singles for an album. Even though Wet Leg has done this, ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Howler

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Woodwork

A pretty down-played emo album with strong guitars on tracks like Howler and Vision. The EP's best part is the vocals. They're soft and airy and really balance the harsher parts of the instrumental. The lyrics are also very personal and really tells a story.

FAVORITE TRACK: Jean of Arc

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Temporary

On Gap Girls' second full length, Jacob Rubeck is able to bring his 80s-inspired fever dream to life. Combining unique and intricate instrumental tracks- like FLFA, Poppers Anthem and Jigoku/Tengoku- with these synth-bound and ethereal tracks like Falling and Crawling and People Will Always Love You, Rubeck is able to expand the sound he already established for Gap Girls. Forever Love, Forever After includes a myriad of romantic ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Zatoichi

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Mental

I wish the whole album sounded like The Smell Of Death and Zatoichi. But it doesn't.

FAVORITE TRACK: Jealous

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: The Mountain

OK ALRIGHT EVERYONE IT'S HAPPENING OHHHHH MY GOOOOOOD IT'S HERE.

Camp Cope is a three piece, all-female indie and punk band from Australia. They blew me away with their 2016 self-titled release on Run For Cover Records. But I was left pretty underwhelmed with their followup, How to Socialise and Make Friends with the exception of the opening track. But, nevertheless, I have been extremely excited for the return of this band and for ... read more

FAVORITE TRACK: Hard to Believe

LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: That's What I Get

Indie-pop trio Wallows is back with their long anticipated sophomore album, Tell Me That It's Over. The band had big shoes to fill for this, following their lively coming-of-age first album from 2019. Personally, there hasn't been a Wallows project I haven't loved so I have been nothing but excited for this.

Tell Me That It's Over is a more experimental project for the band. Hard to Believe starts off the album including ... read more