For an artist as prolific as Savant, with such a cult-like fanbase, but in an an era where his excellent producing in his own bubble in a genre long past its imperial grip on culture - ‘Krang’ feels like his production resume; showcasing all of his consistently excellent and diverse skill across the EDM spectrum after over 11 years making waves. Will this holistic collection pull him into the next decade, be one that pigeon-holes his creativity after putting everything on the table ... read more

After a couple months without hearing the rusty plucked bass in the last quarter of this song, and how it makes the full arrangement of this track slam the afterburner to go intergalactic and how it absolutely crumpled me out of nowhere with a killer emotional gut-punch I completely forgot about until 10 minutes ago - I knew I immediately had to write something about it.

An unexpected chamber-folk with swirling psychedelia in the vocals that shoot into the heavens into what feels like the ... read more

R.A.M. and Discovery are albums I see as deeply intertwined moments in my life and as sister albums that are 2 sides to the thesis that is Daft Punk's ethos. There has been so so much said about the lush grooves, their stylistic gamble to deeper into the origins of their sound from club --> disco or especially the fact this is one of the single best engineered 74 minutes in music history - so here I add only my experience with it.

I thought I hated this album for so long. Generally, I ... read more

FTBYH feels like an electronic sermon. A near perfect religious experience fusing the electronic, symphonic, pop and rap production that has defined the past 10 years of Blake's music. Here's some scattered thoughts that the past couple months with this record have given me.

There's an interesting relationship made by putting Take a Daytrip, Joji and Metro Boomin on an album that includes a song like 'Say What You Will' that directly addresses his complex relationship with inner comparison to ... read more

My favourite album of 2021.

As I grow, and from consuming far too many white-dude-20-something's video essays on the film and art side of YouTube, I've really started asking myself this 2 part question as an audience member. 'Why was this made?' and in cases like these, 'Why was this sequel made?'.

There are far too many examples of empty sequels to successful bodies of work that don't answer that fundamental question in large industry-scale budgeted projects, the smallest 1 person collection of expressions, and in a ... read more

I'm so proud of my Arizona boys.

A clear cut from their songwriting focus on the style of 'the banger', BTTIGTP focuses squarely set on building lopsided grooves out of found sound and noise. This coincides with how here they're making an experimentally sharp bedding, instead of one being built as rap-friendly; ending up having more moments in the actual beats as the memorable core to tracks instead of the usual big sung/rapped hook half the time. If it wasn't these established, talented ... read more

Everyone has their choice of at least one true-blue indie album. This album, during my initial discovery of Kate Lucas' music, seemed to be what would fill this category for me. Oh lord, how truly wrong I can be in best of ways.

This album kicks so much ass. 'Camera', the leading track off this record, feels like the most lush and serene misdirection of what I came to expect of the usual bedroom-indie releases (with immaculate production, I might add), especially at the time. When I say that, ... read more

In this review, I have thoughts about this record through more of a fragmented assortment of personal comments, anecdotes and comparisons and less about the actual sound. Sue me.

This is one of the records I've sat with the most for years in my head, listening to it many times, getting occasionally used to key bangers like 'Diversion', but yet to this day still feels god damn dangerous to me. Scuzzy and full of sewer grime, yet otherworldly and cursed in a way that not many albums can maintain ... read more

Being on this website, you may relate to the experience I had with this song.

Every time I try to return to this band, and especially the album that this song is attached to, SGL comes on and I simply cannot move past it to give the rest of their work the listens they deserve. The worst part about it all is that its actually the album's opener so I don't get very far at all! (A great example of this is Brad Taste's experience with the track 'Obstacle 1' off of Interpol's 2002 record 'Turn On ... read more

How does this work as well as it does and somehow holds up even in 2021?

The smoothie of Drake's voice, atmospheric mixing, a huge throwback sound and the best chorus of his career all infused with the double shot of melancholia all contribute to how it rips it cleanly out of any remains of any 2013 sound.

This song genuinely feels like the next step in sound after 808's + Heartbreak, with the foundation having near 5 years to solidify and this song absolutely perfects that direction sound to ... read more

Primal.

Each spin of this vibrant and hypnotic deconstruction of dance, jazz and metal makes me feel like I'm in the center of time and the universe, repeatedly reliving the perpetual battle of Cain and Abel through Cain's psyche as he experiences the first human instance of murdering over and over again. All the mixed emotion of anticipation, pain, anger, excitement, sexuality, fervor, and denial all displayed ferociously in the instrumental like the blood itself spilling against God.

I'd ... read more

This is such a prime example of mastering an established genre, so far as that the current 'dance-goes-disco' sound should look to 'Take My Breath - Extended Version' from here on out as direct citation.

Abel must be huffing the same discothèque fumes that have been seeping deep into the greater music-sphere for years. So bad is this infection, now, that it has only just peaked within the past 2 years, as the legendary groove has infected even the tippy-top of the Billboard Charts ... read more

As much as it was her single 'Door' that first grabbed me, and 'So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings' that brought me to her yearned dance-floor, it's the true majesty of 'Ocean of Tears' that has maintained the firmest place in my listening habits since mid-2019. A truly grand exploration of what if Kate Bush had Danny L Harle and A.G. Cook at the mixing board.

That is not a way of calling Ms.Polachek a thief, as her distinct affinity for melodrama and camp mixed with a fruit-salad of vocal ... read more

Vince has played us yet again. I hate giving him the satisfaction of him framing this album as just similar verses/topics but with a notably more soothing delivery + a mid-paced soulful foundation underneath, but he's right and sounding great while doing it.

If I smoked cigarettes, I imagine that every time I start this album over again embodies the feeling of what the first drag must feel like on a cold February morning. Most of the harsh wintered past behind you, and the golden summer soon ... read more

Listening to this album again after a break without it in rotation gave me thoughts that I'll describe at first in a few short bursts.

An anxious artillery. A depraved stage-play of the toll a 'Trainspotting' lifestyle does to someone after decades. A merciless macabre of mental duress. Orpheus guiding us through a modern horror telling of suffering and incomplete coping mechanisms.

In another reality, the experimental hip-hop community would easily take this album as their 'The Money Store' ... read more

One of the easiest albums I've considered perfect. Like the finest of wines or a forgotten Twinkie from any time in the past 20 years, 'No Now' can only be described as somehow even fresher 6 years after its release.

There is little surprise about the cult following Clarence Clarity has received in the years since this album, but what continues to surprise me most is how this was an actual debut record.

Through a Clarity-branded maximalist approach to pop, the album's influence in the ... read more

How does he keep getting away with this. For most artists, playing the angelic and intergalactic hits from No Shape would have been enough for the next 7-10 years and living in that creative peak would have been more than enough. Clearly not for Mike Hadreas.

The blistering, burning vision of each of these gut-punching pieces is displayed clearly, through disco-inspired highs of 'On The Floor', through the drum and string forest of 'Your Body Changes Everything' to the solarized, washed out ... read more

Few songs have I felt this behind on discovering it's magic than I have with 'Social Cues' when I saved it to my Spotify library back in March.

It's the bassline that reeled me in. It held what originally felt like such a disjointed rambled song into one that I feel wrong not singing along to for each of its bizarre lines with an even more distinct delivery.

To me, this reminds me of what the drop of the cultural reset 'Bad Guy' did only 2 years ago. It introduces this immediately ... read more

Insane. Bonkers, even. The amount that this track, and the enigmatic Remi Wolf herself as a soon-to-be pop superstar, has captured my imagination and full attention in the past 6 months is truly staggering.

This, like many of her staggered releases so far, has such a seamless blend of the best elements across the charcuterie board of popular genres - for example - squawky loop risers, bedroom pop-funk jangled guitar, whacked out cutesy R&B vocals, and a clear ear for dance and ... read more