As with her previous album, I wanna start off this review once again with a huge shoutout to allie for being the most amazing person in the world, please show her and this truly incredible album the love they both deserve :)
empire as an album depicts and explores vividly personal struggles with addiction and trauma, and fighting to stay alive at your lowest, delving into all the darkest and most harrowing moments of such experiences with brutal and frightening detail. This is a primarily ... read more
Unfortunately pretty underwhelming comeback song after their best work ever last album. While this is something of a new vibe for them it also just sorta feels like something that’s been done a million times before by other bands, and so that holds it back. If this is just a sorta cute lighthearted fan-pleaser song to show they can still do stuff more similar to their early work then fair enough, but this lacks the exciting evolution and boundary pushing that they’d been leaning ... read more
Easily bladee’s most lyrically dense and esoteric work to date, or at least since the fool and crest. The way this serves as a spiritual sequel to cold visions but also as a direct expansion of last year’s martyr EP whilst also expanding upon ongoing symbolism across his discography is nothing but genius and makes for a thrilling listen. The emotional arc of this album being about turning yourself into a martyr for your own personal divine cause and spiritual belief systems as a way ... read more
feels like an intro song that's building to something even more, really like it as a sort of prologue to this new era and very excited to see what comes next
all this site does is complain about stuff that really isnt that deep and this song's reception is a prime example; have some whimsy and joy in your lives for once, not everything is that serious, listen to the damn song and nod your head, stop treating every piece of music like it's supposed to be helpless child or shine on you crazy diamond. the unnecessary degree of pretentious whining here is so much more cringe than the song itself will ever be