This is great! Another amazing example of this weird sort of industrial electro pop style that Doldrums pulls off, and while I can't say it's pulled off as incredibly as "Lesser Evil", it's still incredibly exciting! The top song here is handily "The Stitched Together Man", which has an absolutely banging beat and really densely layered production. This shit sounds scary and intense. Other great songs include "Perv", which oddly sounds reminiscent of ... read more

Very solid all around, but doesn't have any standouts, apart from maybe "Hole-Dwelling".

Doesn't reach the heights of their first album. Still has some good songs, though, particularly "eXist" and "Dark Shadow" are my two favourites. Unfortunately can't say anything else here is particularly memorable.

Aya's debut album is just not good. It's so avant-garde in a way that just doesn't resonate with me. A lot of these songs feel more like sound art pieces that don't go anywhere. I guess it has some interesting ideas but it just doesn't come together at all.

Hm. Something about this one didn't quite strike me. I was ready to call it Matmos' worst album by far... but then the last song played. That song blows everything else out of the water on this album. Industrial masterpiece. Not a single other song on the album struck me, unfortunately.

This album is WILD. SO wild. This is like such a weird deconstructed club release but I am so into it. At times it also reminds me of Fire-Toolz. The best song Is "off to the ESSO" easily, this song just has such a fucking angry vibe while also sounding like absolutely insane, like she's out of her fucking mind, it's so sick. Similar vibe on the closer, "Time at the Bar", which is also one of my favourites. My second favourite however is "droplets" which ... read more

This album is a largely sample based... mess. I think it has some good parts to it, "15627" and "Buapsalk" are both pretty interesting, I like the beat in the former and the way the latter uses vocal samples is pretty fascinating. Everything else ranges from alright to straight up terrible. Thankfully, it mostly just leans "alright", "Bellstep" is a nice enough little ambient tune, but "032 - Music, Art, and Culture" is just god awful. This ... read more

This is great! It honestly feels like a spiritual successor of one of Patricia Taxxon 's earlier albums, "Yes, And". They both have really similar texture to me. While I do prefer that one a smidge, I still find this one really fun! Particularly songs "Meringue", "Tongues", and "Scum" are absolutely the top best ones here. All the others are pretty good too! The only one I'm a bit iffy on is "Blunderbuss" but honestly that one is still ... read more

Oof, I'm not sure why, but I don't vibe with this one at all. I was excited seeing a CJ The X feature, seeing as his presence on "I'll Be" from Agnes & Hilda is one of my all time favourite Patricia Taxxon songs, but this one was a lot less interesting to me. I'd still say it's one of the songs I like more on here though.... unfortunately. I'm really not sure why I didn't enjoy this. Oh well I guess...

I'm not huge on this, but I will say, Patricia Taxxon is probably the only person that could ever make me enjoy dubstep. I don't LOVE it, and idk if I ever will, but I find it much more enjoyable here than anywhere else

This thing goes INSANELY HARD. Holy cow, I need more industrial matmos. The heavy hitting beats on excerpt's 1 and 9 (the first 6 minutes and the last 3 and a half minutes) mixed with the usual matmos in your face textures are a type of sound I have never ever heard before in my life and I so badly want more of it. Beyond just those two absolutely phenomenal tracks, the rest of the album goes exceptionally hard as well, I say this in every matmos review I do, but genuinely the sound design ... read more

Even though this album isn't as interesting to my own personal tastes when compared to the matmos discography at large, I am still left impressed. But yeah I do like other matmos better :(

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I have listened to six or seven Galen Tipton albums by this point, four of which are collaboration albums with another artist, and I can definitively say, this is BY FAR my favourite thing they've ever put out. This album is genuinely incredible. Galen Tipton has always had an incredible knack for sound design, and it's often hit or miss for me. I find their solo albums are usually a bit too formless for me to get into, being more like textural arms, so their collaboration albums with ... read more

Hm. This is definitely one of the more abstract Matmos records, and they're already an insanely abstract band so I do feel a bit lost here. I don't think I connect with the theme here as much as other Matmos releases, though I still did find a bit to enjoy, particularly the song "Flight to Sodom / Lot do Salo", however most of the other tracks either didn't leave an impression on me or I was just hoping for it to end.

What a fun album!!! Another Matmos banger if I do say so myself, It's incredible how bubblegum this feels despite being released in 2008, way before bubblegum bass ever came to be. Obviously though, it is VERY different to real bubblegum bass, but this does scratch the exact same itch in my brain as that genre! "Orban" is my personal favourite, followed by "Rainbow Flag", both of these are just really fun and silly. I'm also a fan of "Polychords", and ... read more

Goo Munday leans much more heavily into a sound directly adjacent to Crystal Castles and it works incredibly well. "Which house?" (har har) is easily the best track here, the intensity of this song is incredibly reminiscent of Crystal Castles "Baptism", which is one of my favourite tracks by them. This album actually I feel really matches their second album incredibly well. I quite like this.

Very solid witch house. Rebirth is the best song here, but hanging out and anti life are also very good too. Overall solid.

Matmos' new album is really good! I've always been a fan of metallic sounds in music and this album conceptually makes the most of that in a lot of very fascinating ways. The sound design here is truly through the roof, and if you're a fan of music with a lot of varying and densely layered textures, this is an album for you. The absolute best song on here is "Changing States" EASILY, this song uses these textures to evoke a really strange feeling that I can only ... read more

Born Gold's second best work behind Bodysongs. It's quite far behind Bodysongs.... but considering bodysongs is now one of my favourite albums uh. ever. that's kind of expected. I REALLY love the song "Flowers" off of this release, easily the best one here, and I'm also a fan of "I Want To Be Naked". Those two are really fun.