Stray Kids - Come Play
59

Thought this was gonna sound like ass based on the snippet but it's actually just a pretty average song. Young Miko's verse is the best part of the song.

Geordie Greep - The New Sound
92

What a bombastic and hard to take in album (Meant lovingly). I haven't heard a full album from Black Midi (the band Geordie Greep lead before it broke up), but this album makes me really curious for that discography because I've heard it's as chaotic and fun as this album. "The New Sound" takes place in the head of a man with the grandest of delusions about pretty much everything in their life concerning love, lust and reputation. Track after Track you get insane lines ... read more

Travis Scott - UTOPIA
89

Travis Scott made THE event album of 2023. But an event album that was wrapped in a dark, etheral, and decently ambitious coding notably inspired by the proudly abrasive nature of Kanye West's album "Yeezus" that released a decade prior to UTOPIA. However unlike Yeezus's mostly consistent soundscape with a few exceptions. UTOPIA sounds like it's taking an attempt at something unique and exceptional at every song, even if all of them don't land for me. I do think ... read more

The Smile - Cutouts
78

Cutouts does kinda come off as the b-sides of the sessions of for Wall Of Eyes but most of the songs are good enough on their own to warrant an album, "Foreign Spies" is a pretty lowkey song for an opener and it honestly is in my least favorites. "Zero Sum" is the first groovy song on the record that I think really encapsulates the kraut/mathrock sound that really different the band from Thom Yorke's previous works on his solo stuff and his work Radiohead and Atoms For ... read more

twenty one pilots - Clancy
76

Finally got the actual motivation to do a full listen after it was announced they're gonna make a song for the Arcane season 2 soundtrack. This is the first time I've heard a full twenty one pilots album, a duo I've always had lukewarm opinions on with the exception of the few songs I've heard form their album "Trench". Clancy as an album comes off to me being entirely about insecurity about your platform on the world, with the indie pop production that complements ... read more

Ashnikko - Paint The Town Blue
88

I don't really like ashnikko but this is fun and it's about jinx so I'm automatically gonna enjoy it, also the production is actually pretty good, wish it was longer

Mitski - Laurel Hell
65

Going from Makeout Creek to this is defintely a whiplash, unfortunately I don't feel nearly as positive about this one as I do for "Bury Me At Makeout Creek". My feelings on this album actually coalign with another album that came out this year which was Charli XCX's "CRASH", that album felt like Charli watering herself down to get pop hits, basically "selling out". I don't think is Mitski's "Sell Out" album and I honestly only have ... read more

Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek
87

Sad to the point of suffocation. This is the first full Mitski project that Ive checked out an artist Ive always wanted to check out and Im glad to say I really enjoyed this album. The first thing that strikes about the album is how brutally depressed and honest the lyrics on this album are, multiple lines had me saying "Jesus Christ" out loud and it really helps makes the album standout. The production is very well done Lofi-indie rock that really helps give the words and the just ... read more

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
71

Looking deeper into The Cure's Discography in "Seventeen Seconds" I definitely see the breeding grounds of Goth Rock, compared the last album I checked out that's considered their magnum opus "Disintegration" this album definitely has a much dreadful tone, and I don't mean dreadful as it's bad I mean it's just the atmosphere has more dread to it a lot of the lyrics feel like the singer is trying to escape or flee to somewhere dark even if it feels ... read more

The Cure - Disintegration
88

My first foray into goth rock and I'm enjoying quite a bit so far, I've always been meaning to check out The Cure and this album is a pretty promising start to it. This album really feels like a atmospherically dark but also pretty journey through love. The album starts off beautiful with "Plainsong" with starry chimes and synths that help give this song a dreamy feel to it, along with the lyrics being written as a short conversation it really hooks the listener in. ... read more

Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
97

Magnificently consistent, fun, and inventive. I had never heard or even read of Magdalena Bay before I started hearing about the buzz around this album, Im really glad I put my doubts besides on how good this album could be cause I TOTALLY see the hype, even if you're not paying attention to lyrics (like I was) this production one the album is completely immaculate it's insane to hear for the first time, every aspect of it is amazing. "Death & Romance" was the first one ... read more

Nujabes - Modal Soul
83

Feather is seriously one of the best rap songs of all time just based off the lyrics they're so beautifully written and well made, fuck man it's even one of the best songs of all time honestly.

Sweet Trip - Seen/Unseen
50

I don't have much else to say than It's beautiful to see the impact this band had on people. I hope Valerie knows and is still able to appreciate the hearts she touched with her work on the band.

Favorite Tracks: KKMJ, A Seagull Lull - Demo Version, As We Forget, Rain Song, Singularity, Unconscious Living, Working

Sweet Trip - A Tiny House, in Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
NR

Knowing the full situation and the motivations behind this project from Roby I cannot get through this album and I don't think I would ever be able to listen to it in full. It's heartbreaking to know that a revitalization of a passion project was secretly an opportunity to go further with Roby's disturbing obsession with Valerie that ultimately ended in something extremely traumatic that was done to Valerie. I'm glad to know that Valerie is in a safer place now with her ... read more

Sweet Trip - Velocity : Design : Comfort.
89

Sweet trip also made another banger album and it goes even further into the glitch pop and IDM that shows up on You Will Never Know Why (I know this came about before that album don't worry). The IDM and glitch pop of this album definitely reminded of Aphex Twin in a sense but with this album it's electronic sounds can be equally as distorted and groggy and but it feels like there's a candy coated paint but onto it instead most of what Aphex Twin makes which sounds mostly cold ... read more

Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why
87

This album is that kind of dream pop that's not actually dreamy in the way it's clear and angelic but the type that's kinda of dusty and hazy that makes it feel more down to earth. The production on this album is noteworthy and does a great job at balancing organic and acoustic instrumentation with electronic synths and other bleep bloop stuff. It may not seem like that depressing of an album just from the production and the sound being pretty cozy but when you read the lyrics ... read more

JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
93

I still don't entirely forgive you for dickriding Kanye that hard but at least you didn't fall off quality wise. Peggy comes back with his first solo effort since his most acclaimed album LP! in 2021. It's clear from the very first track "i scream this in the mirror before i interact with anyone" that we're getting another new evolution of his, it's a straight rap metal track that's beat is entirely organic live band instrumentation and peggy sounds ... read more

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister - Planetarium
71

Ambitious and grand but doesn't completely deliver. Sound palette wise it's very similar to The Ascension without all the weird vocal effects going. The main problem this album has is that it goes on for just a bit too long as a whole with songs like "Black Energy" being just 5 and a half minutes of ambience that doesn't leave much of an impression. The biggest thing that stood out to me as I previously mentioned was the vocal effects across the project, it does help ... read more

Clairo - Sling
89

Sling is a beautiful step up from Immunity and maybe her favorite album of mine. On the contrary to Immunity which takes many different into Alt-pop and indietronica. This album fits solely into Contemporary folk with tinges of soft rock, and Clairo thrives in the sound greatly. "Bambi" is a gorgeous start, the guitars, pianos, horns everything works perfectly to make a very pretty slow song to the album. "Amoeba" is my favorite off the album and probably her best song I ... read more

Clairo - Immunity
77

Coming back to this album from "Charm" I was surprised how Clario tries alot of different musical styles and production throughout the album, every song has some thing that makes it unique and stand amongst the others. But the attempt at trying alot of different things means Clairo makes some hit and misses across the tracklist. The opening track "Alewife" is a very heavy start detailing how a friend saved her from a suicide attempt in the eighth-grade, it's the most ... read more

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