I’ve found with the few modern pop punk bands that I’ve listened to, they’ve taken on a more mature and less generic sound than during the “glory days” of pop punk, and I genuinely much prefer that sound. PUP certainly doesn’t disappoint in this aspect, leaning more towards the punk side of things.

So this album is probably what you expect, a bunch of fun, energetic, and brilliant pop punk bangers, but there are a few twists along the way. The album opens ... read more

Bandana just about fails to live up to the hype for me, as even though Freddie Gibbs has some impressive verses, and Madlib’s production and samples throughout are quite well done, neither of this duo seems to be on their A game here.

I know I shouldn’t really do this, as they’re both very different projects, but I can’t help to constantly compare this to Madvillainy, another of Madlib’s projects, with MF DOOM. In comparison, I just don’t find any of the ... read more

Xiu Xiu deceive you with a seemingly innocent and colourful cover and title, and come across with what is definitely the most horrifying record I’ve ever listened to it.

So, it may not be nightmare-inducing and sleep-depriving as many are describing it, but you can definitely see where they’re coming from, as it borders on those. The title track here certainly prepares you for what you’re going to be facing in the rest of the album, with an energetic but incredibly dark ... read more

I really can’t explain why I like this so much. It’s just one big glitchy mess of noise and I still love it, goddamn.

While not my favourite of Muse’s albums, I’d say Origin Of Symmetry is the most masterfully crafted, as it comes off as a rock opera rather than a normal album.

While not as varied as Absolution, Muse’s 2nd studio album manages to be fantastic in its own right, with some of their best performances throughout here. New Born is a brilliantly explosive opener, that is just perfect introducing you to this, starting you off with a fairly long song, which there are a few of here, ... read more

If I had any doubts of it before, I have no doubts now that Will Toledo is one of the best songwriters around right now.

Unsurprisingly, Car Seat Headrest comes here with another album with no bad songs, and some of my favourite songwriting ever. And while the lyrical content may be the main spectacle here, that doesn’t discredit the instrumentals, as they are absolutely spectacular as well. What is definitely the instrumental peak, and my personal favourite on the album, has to be the ... read more

Surprisingly enough, some of the original songs on here, while not bad, were some of my least favourite parts of the EP. Definitely glad they left these ones off Hail To The Thief, as all the songs on that album are better than the ones here. Gagging Order is definitely better than all the others, but still wouldn’t have fit on the LP. Both live performances are stunning, and I think I like the Myxomatosis remix, Remyxomatosis, almost as much as the original, as it sounds quite deranged ... read more

I really didn’t think it was possible for a record to be so serious and dark while simultaneously being one of the most light-hearted I’ve ever heard, but if there was anyone that could do it, it’s King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard.

The band’s 2016 record is insanely fun and addictive, and stands out as amazing not only because of its incredible garage rock sound, but mainly because of its concept. Every song leads into the next with the use of perfectly flowing song ... read more

MGMT’s debut album, Oracular Spectacular, is a joyous experience that has a lot more to it than just the psychedelic pop presented to us on the surface.

MGMT really presents this album as a journey, especially as you get into the second half, where it just gets pretty crazy. We’re introduced with the stand-out Time To Pretend, painting a picture of a celebrity lifestyle, but it’s more of a joke than an aspiration for the band, but a very vivid, descriptive joke at that. But ... read more

oh god oh fuck no ray stop doin my mom oh god please no ray please stop i beg you no ray that isn’t where it goes please no don’t make me watch this oh fuck ray why would you do this

After seeing a lot of people hype this album up as being the best of the trilogy, I was fairly disappointed, as even though it’s a nice addition to the trilogy, quite a few tracks are forgettable.

It might sound as if I’m being a bit too critical of this when comparing it to my score, but that’s just because I found the other two album in the Saturation trilogy to be considerably better. And besides, the main problems I have with this album are to do with the sound, as the ... read more

While it’s high points aren’t as high as the first album in this trilogy, Saturation II is more consistently great, with not a bad or even mediocre song here at all.

A lot of people claim that the first two of the Saturation trilogy are quite similar in sound, but right from my first listen, I could tell this would be a completely different experience. GUMMY, just like HEAT on the previous record, is a great choice for an opener, as it shows off the talent of most of the members on ... read more

This is definitely the album in the Saturation trilogy to have most the highest points, but does that mean it’s the best?

Since first listening to Brockhampton last week, I’ve had their albums on repeat constantly, only occasionally listening to other albums. They’ve truly enamoured me, right from the first song I heard, with it staying my favourite song of theirs even after having listened to the rest of the Saturation trilogy. That song is, of course, HEAT, the opener of ... read more

This album is seriously fucked up. In fact, it’s arguably the most fucked up album I’ve ever heard, mainly because of the last track. If this album was a person, I would be the guy from I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull.

This was released on the same day as the debut solo album of fellow Swans member Michael Gira, Drainland. Jarboe clearly shows here that she can work far better on her own than Gira can, as while Drainland just seemed like a collection of songs, this is a cohesive ... read more

I’ve been listening to this album for over 3 years at this point, so I didn’t think it could grow on me even more, but it really managed to do it.

This is the kind of album that I can just come back to at any time, as I can connect with it no matter how I’m feeling, similarly to American Football’s LP3, while not as good as it. The sonics combined with the lyrics here, just like on LP3, make it extremely emotional, and I feel they’re both similarly underrated. But ... read more

Coming off the heels of Swans’ The Great Annnihilator, Michael Gira came out with his first solo album, and you can see why he usually has a band to back him up.

While some of the material here can become instrumentally repetitive, it’s not a bad album in the slightest, with alternate takes on Swans songs and completely original songs, most of which do quite a good job. The opening cut here, You See Through Me is rather emotional in fact, something you wouldn’t expect from a ... read more

Guys I told you Thom Yorke liked anime, I totally predicted this whole albums existence, just look at this meme I made in March, https://www.instagram.com/p/BuuWSaeHsxy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link , thank me later 😎

Going into this, I haven’t listened to any of Thom’s other solo work yet, even though I have been planning to for a while. I’ve certainly heard some conflicting things on his solo stuff, some people say it’s better than most Radiohead albums, some say ... read more

What black midi does on this record is essentially take influence from experimental rock, noise rock, math rock, and a little bit of whatever other genres they could think of, they mix it all together, heat it until it undergoes a chemical reaction that turns it into something that’s like nothing you’ve heard before. And then they fucking shove it down your throat.

I thought I’d give this record a try after hearing the immense amounts of hype that were coming from it. ... read more

There are few artists than can properly pull of an album that makes you want to dance and cry at the same time. Among those are Car Seat Headrest, Paramore, and now Kevin Abstract.

I’ve tried to write this review at least twice before, but failed because I just kept ending up getting lost in the music. While I really enjoyed Kevin Abstract’s latest project Arizona Baby, and it had some extremely sweet songs like Baby Boy, it didn’t prepare me for this. Right from the first ... read more

As many other people have already said, it’s mainly just a preview for Soundtracks For The Blind. But that doesn’t mean it should be written off completely.

There’s one track here that appears in a completely different form on the actual album, but really stands out here. That is the opener, Ligeti’s Breath/Hilflos Kind, an amalgamation of The Beautiful Days, I Love You This Much, and my favourite Swans song Helpless Child, all of which later appeared on Soundtracks ... read more