AYYYY, ADDING ANOTHER ALBUM TO AOTY!!! 🔥🔥🔥
This one is called First Salvo, and it's by a band called Iron Duke, formed around 1974, then put this record out a year later or so. So, what is it? Well, its PROG! And quite unique prog at that, as Iron Duke uses every synthesizer possible on here, and it ends up sounding pretty good! Generally, it's a very upbeat album, with some pretty nice sounding (though faint) vocals, paired with instrumentation that always sounds like ... read more
Really fun EDM here! I could definitely see myself coming back to this album :) Some of it feels like part of a video game soundtrack, like I so badly wanna play some Pac-Man or something while listening to this!! I think my only main complaint would be that sometimes the distortion here can be a little jarring. I think the artist is doing that on purpose though, it's just a preference thing for me. Good stuff!!
"2022 I was fourteen, 2024 I'm sixteen, turning seventeen,"....uhm, thank you for the information I guess? This is just one example of the poorly written lyrics on this...EP. This is not an album. While it does have 8 tracks in total, 3 of them are just voice recordings.
Here's what I don't get though, clearly the artist is talented in beatmaking (besides the mixing), so why doesn't he just produce (or just find better rappers)? The instrumentals here are ... read more