"girl with basket of fruit" tries way too hard to be scary, but not only is it not in the slightest scary but also insensitive and extremely pretentious. sure, "mary turner mary turner" is quite terrifying, but it's only because of the context behind it (and the lyrics ofc). that's it. the rest is...like a pretentious art film made by a 14-year-old who's trying to be as edgy and dark as possible. it's sort of like "mummy and daddy" by ... read more

this feels like sleeping on a cloud, closing your eyes as the air around you gently brushes through your hair, rainbows shining on your face, dreaming of pastels and pale moonlight

my clumsy ass accidentally deleted my rating for this 🤦‍♂️ well, here we are again ig
"seven horses for seven kings" is an incredibly desolate album. it has many moments of beauty, but it's still very haunting and desolate. its sound kinda feels existential in a way, like the soundtrack for an existential crisis only with a more historical theme. the noise elements contribute to this, and while they may not appear a ton, they add a lot to the tracks they appear on, ... read more

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so bruhguy actually left me a shout a week ago about if i could dive through their discography (minus unofficial releases), to which i accepted! who doesn't like a fair challenge after all? so i went in almost completely blindly to this. i must say, this is actually pretty decent!
seeing as this is the first album they've made via fl studio, it sounds good! most everything is clear and considering this somewhat sanitized sound palette, it makes sense. and as for the ... read more

birds.....fuck you 🗣🐦🖕
now, those first three tracks are spectacular and on par with some of death grip's best tracks (particularly "you may think he loves you for your money...", i love the dark imagery and the instrumental is in their top three best), but after that it becomes a really mixed bag, with some songs being amazing and many others unfortunately being meaningless filler. it often comes off as just trying to be weird and off-putting. "birds" does ... read more

i've been absolutely yapping in my recent reviews for some reason, so imma keep this one more short and sweet, like my older ones!

as much as i like the atmosphere of this, it's nin's worst album to date. it has some amazing songs, notably the haunting and almost beautiful "the worriment waltz" or the more eerie and atmospheric "turn this off please", but too many of them foray into just being dissonant for the sake of being dissonant instead of adding any ... read more

exploring jezebel is one of the many projects of dominick fernow and adopts the bdsm aesthetic prurient (his most famous project) is known for, but more so focuses on abusive and seemingly controlling forced feminization and the concept of a man-slave. i would never imagine myself saying that line of words, but it just shows how far i've gone down the fernow rabbit hole. either way, that's just sick to think about, especially with the implications of many of these titles, which are ... read more

trigger warning: mentions of child murder and torture. please proceed at your own discretion.

aaron has always made quite disturbing music, terrifying even, but i don't think anything can top this.
"doll doll doll" is a nearly hour-long auditory exploration of the theme of paedicide, which if you don't know, is a term used to describe the murder of a child. from the titles, it should be at least somewhat obvious, especially "befriend a childkiller" and "all ... read more

holy fucking shit (40,000), why did under the radar give this a zero?!?!
"burned mind" is a unique album in the grand scheme of noise music, with a much less confrontational and in-your-ears approach and a much more plotting and sinister one. it feels like a rock album but created by angry rogue cyborgs during the apocalypse screaming through a rusting microphone, but in a way that feels genuinely human. the instrumentals, especially on tracks like "village oblivia" and ... read more

i'm convinced there's at least one absolute freak out there who jorked it to this album cover, and they possibly could be anybody on this site! beware.....
"windowlicker" is an....interesting, to say the least, ep by aphex twin consisting of three very different-sounding tracks. here, richard forays into various new styles, almost none of which would be further explored in his following works. it's an understandably confusing ep, but i think that's what makes it so ... read more

*sigh*
let me explain. so, i was scrolling through the industrial hip hop section of bandcamp (as i did with the renzira ep) and found this release, which i was perplexed of due to the rather...explicit...title. but my morbid curiosity once again got the best of me and i decided to give it a shot. how bad could it possibly be? well, it's pretty damn bad.
i'll start with some positives. the production itself is actually quite decent, especially on "fuck the music" (which ... read more

my last rating achievement album was "everywhere at the end of time" for my 300th rating. now, i have reached 500 ratings! i'm so thankful that you guys have stuck with me throughout this and to celebrate this milestone, i decided to listen to "nostalgia 2000-2006" by pedestrian deposit, a compilation of various rarities from, well, 2000 to 2006, ranging from splits to obscure releases to even some unreleased material! in general i have liked what i have heard from ... read more

"black vase" is one of prurient's most famous harsh noise releases and for good reason. it marks quite a shift in his sound from distorted and crushed noise/harsh noise music to high frequency screeching harsh noise mixed in with improvisational drumming, which didn't last too long but did shape the project's direction in a very positive way. the album sees fernow experimenting with more sounds and transitioning into more varied vocal styles, though his signature ... read more

a very tragic song fitting for a very tragic reality of genocide and its impact on the palestinian people.
"from the river" is a song i only really heard of after looking on a very close friend of mine's page (on this website ofc), that being @TundraPrincess, who i thank significantly for inadvertently introducing this to this song. it's unusually minimalistic, with only ethel's soft, almost serenading, vocals over this dark and melancholic piano instrumental. with it being so ... read more

staring into the sky type of music
"stratosphere" is a rather peaceful and rural album. not always, but most of the time it feels like that. it feels like watching a sunset quietly while on a park bench, daydreaming as you do so. and i listened to this while at a park so that may be why. the outdoor environment really amplified my appreciation for this!
"he went outside??!?!?!? no way! an aoty user touched grass 🤯" hell yeah i did and it felt good 👍 would recommend
but ... read more

and now, the end is here
and so i face the final curtain
my friend, i'll say it clear
i'll state my case, of which i'm certain
i've finished the japanese birds
i've gone through all 13 installments
and more, much more than this
i listened to it.....MY WAAAAAY.....

13 JAPANESE BIRDS, VOLUME 13/CHABO (BANTAM CHICKEN)
we are now at the end of the series. everything is coming to an end, but how well does this end this rigorous yet rewarding series? and to answer that, dear readers, i will say ... read more

13 JAPANESE BIRDS, VOLUME 12/TSUBAME (SWALLOW)
"tsubame" is the penultimate installment of this series that i've been dedicated to listening to for a while now. i was originally planning on listening to this for the first time via its physical release (on cd) but i decided to instead just do it now and waste no time waiting for it to come in the mail. and yeah, i quite enjoyed this one.....like, a lot.
this one, as according with the cover, feels much more dark and distressed. ... read more

boards of canada is possibly my favorite group of all time, i've consistently loved what they've released (hell, even tomorrow's harvest is a 95 for me) and they've never failed to impress me with how great their songs are. even the two old tunes albums are amazing, and i quite like random 35 tracks tape even if some of the songs are very very weak in comparison to the rest of their discography.
"boc maxima' is sort of the prologue to what was to come from boc.
it ... read more

holy shit, this is one of, if not the most, depressing albums i have ever listened to. and it's only 28 minutes long.
"flick your tongue against your teeth" is incredibly disturbing with almost all of the tracks dealing with themes of immense depression and oftentimes even self-destruction. the moody experimental production really helps amplify these feelings with these more atmospheric and ambient instrumentals that give the compositions here a sense of despondency and hopelessness. ... read more

seeing the genre tags and the group name, i was expecting something much darker than this. but really, it kinda just feels like mid-80s synthwave, at least most of the time....
careful is a rather interesting album, it balances on the two extremes of variety. either we get something extremely different from the rest or we get the same thing we heard from previous songs. most fall under the latter. we start with a very eerie opener, "keep driving", which feels like driving through the ... read more