Okay. Damn. I have been missing out on death's dynamic shroud for sure. This album is certainly more poppier than most of the rest of their stuff, but man, it hits in all the same places that DDS does. I actually get Baths vibes from a lot of the songs on this album, but if he did a bit darker music. Overall absolutely stunning.
TOP 3 SONGS: Moonbow, 11 Months, Hologram World
Jesus christ. I really missed this one. With the reissue, I've decided to check out the three DDS albums now that they're on spotify and what can I say, this one has instantly become my favourite by them. The thickness and intensity is really unmatched and honestly, perfect. I will be looping this one for sure.
TOP 3 SONGS: Profane Angelic Function, Over Again, Spirit of Loneliness
Blank Banshee is someone I've known for a while exclusively through the song Teen Pregnancy, which I honestly always thought was a rather annoying song, so I wasn't exactly clamoring to stream this album, it wasn't until 3 days ago where I was bored, not really sure what music to listen to when I remembered this existed and decided to give it a whirl, because why not. I ended up completely shocked at how interesting and versatile the sound is on here. This thing is really one of the greatest ... read more
I just. I don't see how this is appealing at all. I love many of the artists that coucou chloe is associated with, but her stuff has always been a massive miss for me. I could not find any tracks that stand out in any unique or interesting way.
It's a really beautiful ambient album. With this sort of genre, songs not following a very typical song structure, it's very easy for songs to become monotonous and dull, and while this album does have some moments that fall into that trap, for the most part, it's still exceptionally engaging and beautiful.
TOP 3 SONGS: en trance, dawn memo, ghost strata
It's a lot. Most of the time that's generally a positive thing. There's no moments on it that are particularly bad, but a lot of it kind of falls to the wayside for me. I think for the type of people this is especially catered towards (some strain of dubstep/techno etc), they'll love it, and I am just not one of those people, although I still enjoy a handful of songs
TOP 3 SONGS: Coastline Paradox, Big Drum, Shroud
I don't know why I didn't get into this album earlier than now. I've always been aware of it, I've always enjoyed it, but I've always preferred the clear tamei ep, and didn't really replay much from this album. But now that I'm listening more, I'm realizing how unique and incredible it is. With every listen, I'm getting more and more out of it. This thing is one of the coolest and most unique sounding things I've heard in a while.
TOP 3 SONGS: Peanut Choker, Teal Yomi / Olivine, Super Ink Bursk
This album feels like if it was sung by bjork, it would sit really nicely somewhere in the bjork catalogue, and that is a compliment. I only have known glasser previously by her song "Apply" which was a pretty solid song, but not one that made me particularly interested in checking out the rest of her stuff, so I came into this album not expecting very much. However, I was surprised at how unique and interesting the sounds on this album are. Many really incredible beats, and otherwise ... read more
My first Arca project in my series of going through every single one (I have already done kick i and stretch 2 though) and I gotta admit this one was... not the most interesting to me. I'm sure that in that time period it was probably unique and creative but hearing it after I already know and love Arca's more evolved stuff, it just doesn't really grip me like her other stuff does.
TOP 3 SONGS: Waste, Fossil, Obelisk
I really don't understand why this is ranked significantly lower than most of her other projects. I don't find it to be the MOST groundbreaking she's ever done, but it's still got some amazing stuff despite the short runtime.
TOP 3 SONGS: Put It Down, Giving Up, I'm Waiting
This is an interesting start to TOKiMONSTA- the songs here are a bit more experimental sounding than what she later refines into, but fpr the most part, they don't really capture my attention all too much. Still decent though.
TOP 3 SONGS: Smoke & Mirrors, Playing With Toys, Doing It My Way
With the exception of Sa Mo Jung, I feel like TOKiMONSTA hasn't totally found a footing yet. The songs here are nice, but they're very forgettable, and since there are so many I just don't ever really find myself coming back to it.
I think this is a pretty good sendoff for PC Music, assuming this is the last album they're releasing. I find that comparing this to reflections, reflections has more really big hits, but also big misses. So while this album has less really big great moments, it is far far more consistent than reflections was. I feel overall production wise this is pretty safe for PC Music, but I think it works really well in their favor and as a result this is one of my favourite albums released this year.
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This was easily one of my most anticipated albums of 2023 especially after seeing it get compared to Garden Of Delete, which is easily my favourite OPN album. And it delivered, maybe not to the extent that I was hoping for, but altogether this album is still fantastic. I feel like it draws a lot of similarities to R Plus Seven and some of his earliest ambient albums, while also managing to fuse that with many unique ideas and unique sounds that doesn't quite sound like anything else out ... read more
All I can say is this album changed the direction electronic music was going in and I thank it for that.
TOP 3 SONGS: Telephasic Workshop, Aquarius, Triangles & Rhombuses