This dude only knows how to write one song, seems like he is incapable of developing any song that goes beyond his R&B formula. He comes up with a good song idea, writes some chords and a few lyrics, adds a simple beat, refuses to articulate, and that's it, a one minute and a half long sketch. What's even the point?
I'm always concerned when an underground artist hits big, starts collaborating with big industry names and writing for film soundtracks, afraid they might lose the connection with their own essence.
Kevin Parker was all about essence, he was the guy writing to express, he was making music to feel and make others feel, he was the guy who liked to walk barefoot to feel the wood on the floor, he went to live concerts wearing flip flops, and had long hair.
Sometime after the massive success ... read more
Almost thought I was listening to a 30 Seconds to Mars, Maroon 5 and Taylor Swift collab.
The eye roll inducing lyrics did a great job at making me feel like a 14 year old girl that just discovered feminism and has an immature boyfriend, so that's a plus for immersion.
This is nothing more than a failed attempt to reignite Deftones. While some songs were able to make me recapture the good old Deftones vibe, they are few and mostly comes as low effort. The mixing is horrible and I think it is probably Spotify's fault as most new songs appear to release with only low audio quality streaming available for some days, but still, sounds too harsh and underdeveloped.
Vocals are also pretty bad, souvenir is the worst in this term, it just sounds awful through ... read more
The enshittification phenomenon of and artist's music as they get more famous, popular, rich, and happy is real and Kevin Parker is here to prove it
The AOTY Tribunal of Totally Unrelated to Music and Unproved Crimes (AOTYTTUMUC) has ruled that Arcade Fire SUCKS NOW for reasons unrelated to music and will review bomb their lastest album as punishment.
(It's actually really funny seeing you guys trying so hard to justify the low scores but can't say anything other than generic stuff like "it's boring, it's a let-down, it's awful, they don't make good music anymore 😭" bro just stop pretending you ... read more
Simplistic, depthless, quick, no fucks given (in a bad way), artistically empty, just like the title hints. Vacio.
Most songs are so short and end so abruptly that I consider saying they're straight to the point, but most of the time, there's not even a point.
Some songs transition to other songs that will be the same song but separate just with a different title, it's so unnecessarily confusing and gimmicky.
Three years of waiting after their self titled and I'm still ... read more
Production makes everything so muffled, tuned down and distant sounding, and the vocals are so very monotone and disinterested. The various soundscapes and instruments just don't work out as they should and feel very uncohesive.
This album as a whole sounds like some band's worst live performance where everyone was tired of doing gigs and the sound engineer was off due to severe diarrhea.
"Bota na boca, bota na cara, bota onde quiser
O novinho me olhou e quis comer minha pepequinha
Hoje eu vou dar pro novinho, fode, fode a larissinha"
- Albert Einstein, when asked about temporal paradoxes in the 1927 Solvay Conference.
You like music? I sure do, and I think you do too, since you're here.
You know what I don't like? Having to waste an hour and a half of my day listening to pretentious background noise.
I get the idea behind all of it, I like the theme and what the artist wants to share. But putting everything aside and focusing purely on music, who the fuck really likes to listen to this shit? I don't.
The focus on lyricism doesn't excuse how boring, tame and simple this album is. Everything I can think of when I listen to folk is Nick Drake and how he managed not to just write good lyrics but the way he incorporated the instrumentals into the song with equal importance. This does not happen here, and if you're not paying attention to what Ms. Laura is singing, you might as well listen to the sound of the wind on a sunny day instead.
Throughout the 38 minutes I spent listening to this, I was desperately craving for something interesting to happen. Yet, for each song that passed, it seemed like the album would remain dull and numb just like in the beginning.
It's a chill listen, no doubt, but if you're looking for something that goes a little far beyond from being just okay, you're in for a disappointing experience.
This really does nothing to be something else. In fact, it does nothing at all.
I appreciate ... read more
This song has something under it's hood and I can feel it, but it's so buried in pop clichés and devoid of human emotion on the surface level that it ends up just being the another generic Coldplay song everyone expected it to be.
People in the reviews:
"this is the best song of all time, it's incredible, so powerful and full of emotion, truly a wonder"
Me:
Sees the user score of 98, gets interested, search aphex twin on spotify, new releases, #19, sees it's a 10 minute song, "oh boy, is it going to be a good long song or a bad long song?", hits play, "nice chords", 2 minutes passes, "where is everything?", 3 minutes passes, already bored, 5 minutes passes, ... read more
Even though EDM itself is a bankrupt genre nowadays that's reserved to be played on trash electronic music festivals to people high on cocaine, it's not the main reason this album sucks. This piece of crap is filled with awful and generic beats that just end up making me roll my eyes and die from post-2006 cringe, not to mention the intentional use of autotune in the likes of trap and hyperpop music which despite being intentional, still sounds like shit. Songwriting is as bland as you'd ... read more
Modern Green Day has the best chance of sounding good when they take the burden that pop punk is off their shoulders and try to do something different. It's been 3 decades and their formula is still the same, listening to the majority of the songs in Saviors is plain boring because you already know what to expect from each of them, and there's no trap beat or swedish songwriting that can ever save any of these songs from being samey if you don't actually try to switch things around at least a ... read more
A little bit disappointed in how it turned out, apart from "skin in the game" and "the slab" nothing really stood out too much. The singles did me no good in terms of elevating the hype in stratosferic levels just to come crashing down into the ground as I realized the rest of the album is subpar.
The result is an underdeveloped album, safe in it's comfort zone, that ends up being more boring than soothing most of the time. Still relatively enjoyable.
Olivia has a few good rock songs in her first album and I applaud her for that, but this one is just embarrassing. No redeeming qualities except for great production but that's expected since she's a gigantic artist now. Generic teen rock with bad lyrics.
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You guys are just taking shit out of your own asses at this point."
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