Everybody knows the solution to a crappy day, week or month is some good music and anime! And Open Mike Eagle has had a real shitty year.

Anime, Trauma and Divorce is OME's detailing of the past year in his life, most notably how the divorce from his wife and mother of his son has affected him. His usual wittiness can be found here in spades, cleverly referencing several anime and comics among other things both in humour and in relation to his struggles.

For instance opening song Death Parade ... read more

The Exosphere is the topmost layer of the atmosphere, the final boundary between Earth and Space.

Flamingooooo's song of the same name is a journey upward, into and through the Exosphere. Warm synths wave back and forth with a simple but effective main melody repeating over the top offering up the feeling of a sunrise, seen from the view of a space-station. A dawn seen over the entire world.
The track's final moments include a sample of a "future" in which people are capable of doing ... read more

I'm kind of stuck on this one, the compositions for the most part are done really well. A good use of dynamics, the push and pull of the mixes is on point and none of the tracks outstay their welcome. They say what they have to and then let the next song mosey on in.
My issue is that i'm not the biggest fan of chiptune and 8-bit music as a whole...

There are several moments where it is absolutely clear what CC is trying, and very much succeeding, to do compositionally: the swells of sound on ... read more

Well i'm a little late to the party, but that's what all the cool kids do... right...?

Jokes aside, Unopinionated is a very interesting track, i think a lot of weirdness comes from, what feels like, polyrhythms. A really cool technique where different sections of music play different rhythmic patterns i.e 3/4, 4/4, 7/8, at the same time, within the same space.

A lot of the tones were very well chosen, weird barrages of noisy synths and hiccup-like vocals, kind of reminiscent of Tim Smith ... read more