*Original Score: 50*
review is outdated, I'll leave it for archive reasons
[Whole Lotta Red / Playboi Carti] - "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards"
Bursting onto the rap scene within the peak of the SoundCloud era, Playboi Carti has gained almost a cult-like status with repetitive flows, a nasally voice and simplistic production in his self-titled project and his magnum opus, "Die Lit". I have always seen Carti as a culmination of everything that cloud rap has been ... read more
[NieR:Automata (Original Soundtrack) / Keiichi Okabe] - "Glory to Gaming Soundtracks"
It feels like video game soundtracks are under-appreciated for the added experience that they can bring. They can bring us back to long lost memories that we hold so dear to us, transport us into hand-crafted worlds that help us escape the reality that we can live through, or just make us hype as fuck. The "NieR:Automata (Official Soundtrack)" does all of this. NieR:Automata is an ... read more
[Nectar / Joji] - "Derivative Bliss"
Joji's discography has been enigmatic for me. From the very start of his *serious* music career, he has shown the potential for doing something spectacular in his own respective genre with examples such as "Slow Dancing in the Dark", "Thom", "Rain on Me" being some of my personal favourite singles to come out in recent years. Ever since he has joined the mixed hodgepodge of artists that is called "88rising"; ... read more
[Hit Vibes / Saint Pepsi] - "Future Funk Brilliance"
I have been always interested in internet music genres as given unlimited access to the web ever since I was a toddler. I went through many phases such as Vocaloid, Black Midi, Simpson Wave, etc. Future Funk is one of those internet genres that I am still interested in today and this is the album that started that addiction. Deriving from the roots of Vaporwave, Future Funk is the antithesis of Vaporwave, taking the same formula of ... read more
[Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc / Masafumi Takada] - "Despair, the Soundtrack"
Context:
Danganronpa: THH is a visual novel that focuses on 16 students that are forced out of their will to kill each other to escape the living hell called "Hope's Peak" that they have been entrapped in by the mastermind Monokuma. Each time someone is murdered, the class will hold a trial and if they find out the culprit, the rest will continue to live while the murderer gets executed. ... read more