it would be easy to bandwagon on the hate sleep token has gotten and just call them cringe for the sake of it. but i'll be frank, even by their own standards, this is a new low. ST's whole cult aesthetic has devolved into, dare i say, fuckboy territory, drawing more and more heavily from modern pop R&B and diluting it into unimpressive electronics combined with Djenting that barely holds a candle to even middling metalcore acts like TesseracT or Periphery. so many times have i ... read more
there is a lot of baggage and sentimentality embedded within this album that needs better analysis than "i hate this era of dubstep" or "i love nostalgia." this really feels like an acknowledgement of the journey Vylet has taken over the years since the days of the early Brony fandom and prime of the festival EDM scene, a way to ground herself after reckoning with an ever-growing, turbulent culture of scrutiny and fandom set upon independent musicians. it's not just a ... read more