Artist: Fever Ray
Album: Radical Romantics
Genre: Synthpop, Art Pop, Post-Industrial
Fever Ray Is back about 5 years after their sophomore that wasn’t for me let alone something up to par with their debut but the teasers to this newest one “Radical Romantics” managed to give me excitement to this album cycle, and I’m glad it was one of the teasers to open this record up “What They Call Us”. The digital violin was catchy and created a huge thrill with its ... read more
Artist: 100 gecs
Album: 10,000 gecs
Genre: Hyperpop, Pop Punk, Ska Punk, Power Pop, Noise Pop, Pop Rap
I don’t exactly remember how long its been since Hyper-Electro Pop duo 100 Gecs confirmed this sophomore record 10,000 Gecs but it was a while, but now we finally have it, a 27 minute body of work that yes is very short, but it ends up bringing in a variety of new stuff like going Ska for a couple of tracks, or Power Pop, and weather I liked what was being done or not I have to ... read more
Artist: Yeat
Album: AftërLyfe
Genre: Trap, Cloud Rap, Rage, Experimental Hip-Hop
My first impression with Yeat was about a year ago with his album “2 Alive”, a record I found to be worth talking about but nothing to come back to and I didn’t even bother talking about the second record that dropped the same year, and even with this newest “Afterlyfe” the looks of this bloated tracklist was something I suspected to be filler after ... read more
Artist: Vylet Pony
Album: Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, 'Creekflow', and its Life as an Afterthought)
Genre: Art Pop, EDM, Post-Industrial
As someone who’s always been floating around AOTY, Vylet Pony is no stranger to being under my radar, but I’m just now acknowledging that with the release of her newest album “Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creek Flow, and its Life as an Afterthought)” where on the intro “Let’s Fly to the ... read more
Artist: Xiu Xiu
Album: Ignore Grief
Genre: Death Industrial, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Drone, Spoken Word
Experimental band Xiu Xiu has been around for at least 20 years but has a lengthy discography even for the standards of a band lasting as long as this but despite that, they always seem to pack interesting ideas as the years go on and this new album “Ignore Grief” that takes a horror turn is no exception. Right at the start I was not only interested and where ... read more