NotNerd

Microtonal madness!

Plantoid's sophomore album loses a lot of the chaos, noise and energy of their previous album, but replaces it with a more cohesive flow of tracks that leads to a chiller listening experience. I do prefer their previous projects but this is by no means a miss.

I'm actually going to steal some of the wording from Blabbermouth.net for this:
"Sound-wise, Empty Hands picks up where Negative Spaces left off. Jordan Fish is back on production duties [...] Everything sounds tighter and more focused this time around."

Whilst Anne Erickson has framed this as a positive, I can't help but think that this has just caused more damage to the album. Compared the title track from this album to the title track from Poppy's 2021 EP ... read more

Good vibes all the way through.