Oh no! It's Yoko! Part II
The one where Yoko screams over a drone for 26 minutes

Now THIS is some experimentation I can get behind! Where the first album was one of fucking around for thirty minutes aimlessly, Life with the Lions actually has some sort of method to the madness. Granted, it's still just John Lennon and Yoko Ono believing they can do anything under the guise of "avant-garde", but hey, at least the ideas are interesting.

There's actual thought-provoking aspects to this ... read more

Oh no! It's Yoko! Part I
The one where John Lennon loses his mind and predicts what Captain Beefheart will sound like to people who don't like Captain Beefheart

You know, a lot has changed about me and my taste in the four years since I first heard Unfinished Music 1: Two Virgins. For one thing, I've grown accustomed to avant-garde art. I find a lot more to appreciate in music such as this very album, where it clearly isn't conventional music, and many are going to despise its very existence. ... read more

Metallica's ode to their roots and influences.

Whenever Metallica release a new album, it's an event. Unlike when their biggest contemporaries, Megadeth and (the now retired) Slayer who consistently release(d) albums so you'd rarely have time to get bored of the last batch of new material, Metallica bide their time. They release at very deliberate moments... those being when they've finally gotten bored of playing the same deep cuts between the obvious Enter Sandman, One, Master of Puppets ... read more

You COULD listen to the same, tired, stale, old Metallica again.

OR you could listen to the brand-spanking new METALLICA 2!!!

The choice is yours.

This is NOT music. This is a WALL of HARSH NOISE. This is something you may infer from the genre, HARSH NOISE WALL. Unfortunately, AOTY mislabels this album as HARSH NOISE, which is incorrect. I'm sure that has led many to be profoundly confused when they're met with a WALL of HARSH NOISE after some nice field recordings of a shower.

Regardless, I understand that every one of us may have been distracted by something and some may forget to check the genre tags. But just know, this is a WALL of ... read more

Daughters are one of the most important bands in the progression of my music taste. You Won't Get What You Want dropped right in the period when I started to explore more music. And if you ever take a look at my earliest rates on this site, then you'll see that they were actually amongst the very first. Within a week of finding this site, I had reviews up for all four of their albums, and they were actually the fourth discography I ever reviewed, after my three childhood favourites, MCR, SOAD, ... read more

bjork for bjonks who bjont know bjood music exists

y'all know about that saying, that people only think old music was "better" because they don't remember all the shitty popular music that led the charts at the time? this is one of those for 2023. no one is going to be remembering melanie martinez in 50 years time. just some more tiktokcore that emerges from a chasm every so often for everyone to go "oh yeah, that artist exists." i literally never see anyone talking about ... read more

Atmospheric Black Piano

The Banshee is un-fucking-real. Who knew the sounds of piano strings could be so monstrous and sinister?

The dissonance found all throughout these tracks leads to some of the most unnerving, ominous, and sometimes even nightmare-fueling piano music I've ever heard. The occasional traditionally classical song passes by every now and then, a fleeting light at the end of the tunnel, but then you're thrown right back into the darkness. It's insane to me that all this ... read more

Now that the hate has died down...

Playboi Carti makes the dumbest shit you've ever heard - average AOTY user's reaction: THIS IS THE GREATEST THING TO EVER GRACE MY EARS! Truly the pinnacle of mankind's accomplishments.

Ice Spice makes the dumbest shit you've ever heard - average AOTY user's reaction: BEGONE FOUL WENCH! We only appreciate GOOD music - INTELLECTUAL music to expand the mind.

Oh, as for the music itself... it's aight. I don't find anything so absurdly bad in this, nor is ... read more

0/10

1. It live album (ew)
2. No name dropping unrelated artist (was really holding out hope for a “she had 100 gecs style” ngl)

It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmans
Everywhere I go

From the minute I got into town
And started to look around
I thought these ill-bred people's gill slits shewed

I'm beginning to hear a lot of Fishmans
Right outside my door

As I try to escape in fright
To the moonlit Innsmouth night
I can hear some more

They speak with guttural croaks
And to hear them provokes
A profound desire to flee
Their eyes never blink
And quite frankly they stink
Like a carcass washed up from the sea

I wish ... read more

Uh oh, here's the Fandango drone!

It is I, the one who hates fun. Whenever I feel an ounce of happiness, I just... I lose all control. I simply die inside, and I need to return to my Feldman to remain grounded in reality.

...ok, but seriously, it is precisely because I need the pop music I listen to to actually BE fun that I hate Maneskin. Shit's so devoid of any sort of substance whatsoever, with the most pathetic songs I've ever heard, bland performances, and predictable at every turn. ... read more

If you needed anything else to convince you of the Velvet's superiority, here's an 80 year old John Cale showing that he's amongst the best veteran '60s/'70s musicians.

There are two ypes of veteran musicians - those who stick to what they know to varying results (think Iggy Pop, Yes, Bob Dylan), and the artists who understand that evolution is important. Of course, you have Scott Walker and Lou Reed who took such a drastic turn towards the end of their careers that you'd get whiplash ... read more

Early last year (like, March-April) I went through a phase of listening to a ton of punk rock. Being someone who never really attached myself to it too much, all these essential artists that I hadn't really explored yet, and re-familiarizing myself with old favourites, was definitely a fun time. Patti Smith, Iggy Pop + The Stooges, The Monks, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, all gave me the fix that I didn't know I needed. And then there was the Ramones.

Goddamn, what a miserable band ... read more

It isn't often that the artist's breathing is just as much part of the music as the soft piano keys.

As the ol’ saying goes, the internet somehow always finds that one album to hyper fixate on when it comes to a random unconventional genre. Even for something so simple as weirder experimental rock, the likes of Trout Mask Replica and The Shaggs take the forefront for the internet’s “ha ha, look at this wacky album! You’d have to be an idiot to listen to something like this unironically!” And for a genre as inaccessible as harsh noise, out of all the many (arguably ... read more

An actual review?????

I listened to the John Peel concert and Live Friars, Aylesbury, not planning on listening to the remixes, and I don't know yet if I'll bother with the demos. The lives are certainly interesting. John Peel show unfortunately very underwhelming. Not much of the performances stood out, which is unusual for a Peel session, but the solo acoustic performance of Kooks certainly had a lot of heart which manages to make it even more heart-warming, and this early rendition of It ... read more

I've been re-watching Paranoia Agent recently, and it seriously surprised me how much I had been sleeping on the soundtrack before. Satoshi Kon's magnum opus about hysteria, alienation, desensitisation, escapism, and, well, plain fear sure is elevated to even greater heights by its music, excellently composed by Susumu Hirasawa.

This whole album gives you that same strange, uneasy vibe that the show itself gives, and perhaps even enhances those same feelings within the show itself. Whenever I ... read more

Wait a minute, this isn't Elevation by the Black Eyed Peas!

Wait a minute, this isn't Let My Children Hear Music by Charles Mingus!

Edit: Actual review because I don't need joke reviews on my page.

Now that I've given this more listens than I can reasonably justify, I can confirm that this is, in fact, mediocre. I've tried to understand the hype, and while I can appreciate certain aspects like the instrumentals, the concept, the ambition, and especially the closing track which really does stick out as the only thing here deserving of the hype, I just ... read more