hexagonicalala

I had absolutely no expectations, and this still managed to exceed them.

I've never heard of Joost, and never heard any of his songs or even saw an album cover of his up until this year, as it was one of the earliest albums shown on the new releases page. From this album cover alone, I knew this would be interesting and probably pretty weird, and it was. There are a lot more positive things to say about this than I was expecting, though, and I am very glad I decided to give it a ... read more

Well, it was decent enough

For a short little EP, this did its job well enough. It was a good taster of what I would assume the rest of their music sounds like, and I feel as though it was a pretty good introduction. It wad listenable. The rapping was decent, the production was ok, it was good enough for the role that it was trying to fill. It was enough to tell me that maybe I am not the biggest fan of this type of music, and thus may not be the best judge of its quality, but I will review ... read more

Pretty solid

I've never really been super into shoegaze, and I figured this may as well be a good place to start to get into it more into the new year. From the album cover alone this looked like it would be interesting enough. From beginning to end, this EP maintained a pretty beautiful dreamy, whispy kind of atmosphere to it. It felt really well produced, and instrumentally speaking it was really nice on the ears with nothing doing too much, and everything flowing and meshing together ... read more

Another one to add to the collection of great albums in the first week of 2026

After spending a few hours checking out some metal albums, I decided I may as well calm myself down a bit. Figured ambient music usually does that, and came across this. I don't listen to a super large amount of drone, but the stuff I do listen to I enjoy a lot, and this was no exception. It felt really familiar, but I can't quite remember what it reminded me of. Either way, I was really feeling like ... read more