Kikuo & Hatsune Miku - きくおミク7 [Kikuo Miku 7]
94

WOW I love this, this is handily my favourite Kikuo album of the ones I've listened to! The songs here just consistently go so insanely hard. I'm a MASSIVE fan of that omori cover, probably my favourite song here, the transition into the more dab adjacent section is absolutely phenomenal and the textures are incredible too. My second favourite is probably the song right after it, I love the swift pace of the bells and the rest of the production is deeply fascinating. After that, ... read more

Kitty - Miami Garden Club
62

I have very mixed feelings on this album. A lot of it is just.... highly forgettable to me, whereas the song "Running Away" is an absolute BANGER but sounds nothing like anything else here. Seriously, this is like... borderline witch house song on an electro pop/rap record, it feels so out of place but I absolutely LOVE it. Everything else is just find. I like New Leaf too, it has some odd production.

Kitty - Frostbite
77

This is a really solid EP! It's really solid dance pop. Dance rap? The vocals are amazing and the production is amazing too. The first two songs are easily the best ones, after that it tapers off a bit but still remains pretty solid.

Gupi - paper eater
55

ehhh... I feel like Gupi's stuff that strays away from the bubblegum bass side into the dnb side tends to miss for me. And... yeah this was unfortunately a miss for me RIP. I kinda liked the first two songs but every other song just didn't stick with me at all. Which is a shame tbh.

Gupi - you’re it
78

Gupi's music is just really fun what can I say!!! I really really enjoyed this. "spiralcourse" is handily my favourite track here. The production goes crazy and the vocal performance is so fascinating to me... the way the words are pronounced is just like. fascinatingly strange but not in an annoying way. Also a massive fan of "ongoing", "the essence remains", and "everywhere always". This is just music to sort of forget everything bad in the world ... read more

goreshit - Stolen Bastards
72

This is fairly solid. I can't say it's mind blowing or anything but I still enjoyed it.

yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun
68

WELL... I'm afraid to say this but this... is... my least favourite yeule album NOOOOOOOOOOO this really really hurts me to say, because at one point I considered yeule my favourite artist of all time, but that just... unfortunately isn't the case though with the direction they're going. I will say, the genres they lean towards with this album and softscars ARE genres I just generally don't tend to enjoy anyways, so my low ranks on softscars and this album are less of a ... read more

Patricia Taxxon - Sixteen Sketchbooks Ago
71

This is a fairly solid album. Noise Pop is an interesting style for Patricia Taxxon to take, it's not much like sruff I've heard from her before! However, I do wish that she went a little bit harder on it, as the best songs here are, imo, the noisiest ones, while there's a lot of slower ones that really don't do that much for me. By far the best one is "panic text", this one is the most brash, the most intense, and all around a banger. "bad bad bad bad ... read more

Patricia Taxxon - New Piranesi
60

I have... incredibly mixed opinions on this album. So, this is a noise album. Noise is a weird genre for me, because almost of it I really really dislike and don't want to listen to at all. However... there are a couple noise songs that really really strike a chord in me. There is NO in between, there's never a noise song I hear and go "Huh, that's pretty alright!" it's either I hate this or I love this. This is somewhat similar with ambient music, except there are ... read more

Born Gold - I Am an Exit
72

Gosh. This album is good, but nowhere NEAR the SOARING heights of his debut, which I also said in my review of little sleepwalker, but this applies here too. This is like, perfectly fine electro pop/idm, but just not at the incredible and mind blowing level of his debut. Somewhat of a shame. At least I still like this material too.

Beach House - Depression Cherry
72

This is very pretty! I don't have much to really say about it, other than this is definitely an album to get lost in.

Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy
80

This is really great for a debut album! It always worries me when I see albums that are more than 16 songs long/1 hour long, as I go into them expecting them to feel a bit sluggish or samey, and while this album did somewhat fall into that pitfall, it wasn't nearly as heavily or as bad as I was hoping. Despite a lot of this being samey, it still felt fairly engaging the entire way through, with only a bit of eh in the second half. Personal favourites are "Japan Air", ... read more

Patricia Taxxon - Task
50

So... I'm unfortunately not really into this. It's not a bad project by any means, but drone music is just not really my thing, so I didn't get much out of this.

Patricia Taxxon - Jyväskylä
84

This is really good! Not super standout in Patricia Taxman's overall discography but still incredibly fun. My personal favourite is "Elevensies" as there's something about the textures in this one that strike me, but honestly all of the songs here are really fun and scratch that sort of odd idm bubblegum texture itch. Really fun!

Rikhter - Doma
69

Ufimzew and Birth Of A Star are crazy apocalyptic industrial techno songs, everything else kinda tapers out after those two or sort of remains the same. Overall a pretty good album but definitely a bit too samey.

Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
70

This is an interesting little album. In the past, my favourite DJRUM works have been his more ambient house adjacent tracks, which this album doesn't have any, but I've still found a lot of intrigue from this. I must admit, I think the first half is rather weak, a lot of the songs are either dull, or the experimentation in them goes over my head, but the second half, ie the final four songs, are easily the best 4 songs on here in my opinion. They are also easily the four longest. But ... read more

Born Gold - Little Sleepwalker
76

Definitely a MAJOR step down from his first album, but when the first album is literally a 100 for me, that's kind of to be expected. This one leans away from that energetic hyper poppy sound into something more mysterious, leaning heavily into an IDM vibe, and... I can't deny that I am a little disappointed at that, but the textures here are still really fascinating so it's not too big of a step down, this is still a pretty fun project, even if missing the highs of body songs.

Anamanaguchi - [USA]
97

What the hell this is absolutely FANTASTIC. The genre mashes on this thing are phenomenal. I can point to indie rock, post rock, chiptune, synth pop, and it all comes together in the best way possible. This thing is gorgeous. The builds, the textures, the vocals, they're gorgeous.

My top song is "Overwriting Incorporate" as it features the most prominent chiptune and electronic music genre influences imo and has the best beat and a fantastic build
"On My Own" is a ... read more

Caravan Palace - Caravan Palace
74

This was pretty nice! I kind of feel like I feel roughly the same about all Caravan Palace albums. I enjoy them, I save a couple songs, but they don't usually make a big impact on me in the long run, and I think this'll be the same here as well. Granted I really adored Dragons, easily the best song on here, but also a lot of kinda boring/unnecessary songs that don't add much at all so that kinda evens things out

Daedelus - The Bittereinders
58

Honestly I'm a bit disappointed in this. Veldt came up randomly on autoplay while I was listening to other stuff and it instantly intrigued me for its industrial production and strange shifting beats. However I checked out the rest of the album and it was nothing like that song at all, it was like this weird ambient stuff that is a little bit too avant-garde for my taste. The only song that came close to the strangeness of Veldt was Sold As but I didn't like that one at all, and ... read more

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