Pretty inoffensive indie pop record, really nothing too notable to mention about this. The beginning few tracks are perfectly fun and decent tracks, but it quickly becomes a fairly forgettable album as the runtime progresses.

This is a stunning album, just an hour's worth of noise rock inspired shoegaze that actually has no real instruments in it. I adore the drums throughout this album, they're hard, heavy hitting beats that aren't completely buried in the mix.

As the year goes on, To See the Next Part of the Dream is one of the albums that I really find myself coming back to time and time again, it's so easy to jump into and it feels as fresh as the first time hearing it. Cannot recommend this album enough.

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I did not enjoy this album one single bit. I felt like this album was extremely cliche in terms of the genre, and somehow feels like it overstays its welcome even with a short runtime of 25 minutes. Literally nothing on this album left a last impact on me, and I would have zero interest in listening to this again.

There's definitely some tracks that I like on this album, and that are perfectly enjoyable. However, I do find that this album is far too long, and tracks begin to become unmemorable as the album progresses on. Out of everything I'll probably only revist Un Monde Noveau out of all the tracks here, as it's honestly one of the only ones that I can even remember.

The title track is a bit too on the nose, IDLES-esque preachy post punk for me, but the rest of the EP is pretty good actually. Popshop is fun, if a little cookie cutter, Crass gives me some sarcastic, snarky Black Midi vibes. Slow Burner is probably my favourite track on the EP, the build up to the last minute and a half of aggressive guitar and glitchy synths is great, if anything I'd love a longer version of this track. Always love seeing a local band get a bit of shout out too, Scouse power ... read more

I love the lo-fi comfy production on this album, really easy to just sit back and relax. That said, I do feel like this album lacks any significant star power in terms of tracks, being that they're all pretty unmemorable.

Pretty short and sweet album, some nice production with very Doom-esque beat choices. There's just nothing really too notable about this album to really talk about sadly.

A fine album that really shows the American Football influence on its sleeve with the jazz and math rock influences shining through. Some beautiful instrumentation shown throughout the record, and a great vocal performance from the woman singer. That said, the male vocals really feel quite cliche in this genre, and take away from the record quite a bit for me.

+ Yellow Fever
+ I Live Here Now

Booming walls of sound with intermitten glittering sparkly production thrown together in a vaguely shoegaze/emo fusion that I absolutely love.

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This album is just so pretty in its instrumentation, every song just glitters beautifully and the vocal performances over them are outstanding. I could listen to this album on repeat and never really get sick of it, can absolutely recommend it.

Fairly boring, unspired EP here. Very similiar sound structures throughout, very little variety in flows. There's some funny/entertaining one liners here and there, but really not worth going out of your way to listen to.

I've listened to this album plenty of times now trying to actually write something about it, but I feel like despite liking a number of these tracks, nothing from this album really has any staying power.

The first disc of 'bangers' is really forgettable as it's even happening, besides MAZZA which I really do like, but I can't say I'm really compelled to continue going back to. I find this side to be the most similiar to Nothing Great About Britain, except showing little progression in ... read more

It just sounds so formulaic. The tracks have too similiar a structure to make me able to pick one out of the line up, making the entire album just feel rather forgettable. Very mid release.

Big smack of Idles - Brutalism on this to make a recent comparison. Had I listened to this album earlier in the year, I feel like I may have rated it a decent bit higher, but as it stands at this point in the year, there's been other post punk or post punk inspired releases that just do everything on this album better. It's just a rather run of the mill post punk album all in all. One thing I can say about this album is that I love the percussion as it develops through the album, really coming ... read more

I wanted to love this, especially after the KEXP performance, but this is just not what I expected from this album and this band. I felt Schlagenheim was just raw power, maybe a little reminiscent of early Swans records and this is just not that.

Cavalcade leans a lot more into prog rock esque instrumentation, with definite jazz influences throughout the album too. I can appreciate the musicianship, but prog rock isn't my thing. When this album degenerates into harsh spiralling ... read more

Beautiful album, both in how it's composed and the lyricism on each track. The synth based instrumentals are very well layered, and remain interesting start to finish. I have no issue with the spoken word nature of the album, if the words are important enough for the artist to say then the medium in how they perform them is not really important.

This album is a love letter to the lost friend/s and good times, with a Mike Skinner esque delievery that contrasts so well with the amazingly ... read more

Very prog and math rock inspired album. I love the build ups and the cresendos all over this album, it really feels like this is Black Midi but 'softer' if that makes sense.

++ Sunglasses
+Opus