Not gonna lie, there are some addicting tracks on this album. I think Grimes has a lot of unique qualities as an artist and I hope her next album will be more ambitious! Nonetheless, I think there were a fair amount of cool songs on here.

The title and cover of this album say it all. I feel like this album is the music that plays in the background when you’re a crying minotaur with amnesia trapped in a cramped and closed-off room of an abandoned home devoid of any light or sign of life: cold, somber, and lonely.

You have no one, not even your memories, and you eventually find a way out of the trap of a room you were suffocating within for an incalculable amount of time. You begin wandering around in a dark and ... read more

Just a personal favorite. There may not be anything crazy or stand-out about this album, but it’s serene and delicate. I love the vocals and it’s just relaxing as hell to listen to.

After so many listens, this album finally did it for me. Before, I just thought it was good—nothing more, nothing less. I used to be turned off by so many of the songs on this album such as “The Gloaming” and “I Will” but now I think I love all the songs on this album to an extent, except “We Suck Young Blood”, a decent song which I can tolerate but usually just tend to skip.

It’s... decentish. I hope that their new album brings more to the table than this because I just think this track isn’t particularly great. Kevin’s sluggish delivery doesn’t do much for me, the samples can be kinda obnoxious, and I just feel like they didn’t have a tight and fluid demonstration of their teamwork that was so prevalent in their previous albums. Matt ends the verse well after the segment with Joba’s distorted vocals which doesn’t really do ... read more

There are just a lot of other psych rock albums I’d prefer to listen to. Tame Impala as a whole haven’t done much for me.

Pretty run-of-the-mill honestly.

This just doesn’t wow me. It’s good, but no more than that for me personally. Still, In the Backseat is one hell of a way to finish an album like this off and I always tend to revisit that song often.

Fuck no

I just find this a lot of fun. Sad to see how underrated it is on this website. I think the new wave influences make for a very interesting and unique prog and it’s really catchy honestly. The instrumentals, from the groovy percussion to the hard-hitting riffs and bass lines, make this one of the band’s most addicting albums with high replay value (at least for me).

The influences are obvious—Talking Heads being a notable one (aside from the New Wave + art rock fusion, ... read more

I was surprised that I would like this SO MUCH. It’s been an album that’s constantly been drawing me back into it the past couple weeks and I just find every aspect of this album really well done: the instrumentation, the lyricism, songwriting, vocals, length, etc. Without a doubt one of the most engaging prog albums I’ve heard. Varied in sound but not over-the-top and not a single moment of boredom for me.

Edit: Upon multiple revisits, I think there are some delicious riffs and parts on this album, but also a lot with no purpose of direction which bring down this album a fair bit.

Some of the weirdest shit I’ve ever heard but I love it for some reason.

Caligula—the old Roman emperor—is described by many historians to be one of the most vicious and tyrannical rulers of all time: an individual who took the word “cruelty” and twisted it into his own definition as he underwent a downward spiral into madness. Even hundreds of years after his death, one particular mystery surrounds Caligula, specifically regarding what exactly caused him to stop from continuing to follow the path laid out in front of him—one that ... read more

This project leaves me mixed. I feel like neoclassical darkwave as a genre can make for some potentially amazing melodies while creating atmospheres that feel like nothing else. Unfortunately, as one of the albums considered to be a staple of the genre, "Within the Realm of the Dying Sun" is a rather disappointing effort to do so. As much as I like the vocals on this project, I find the duo's attempts to make a haunting soundscape work to be unsuccessful. The album leaves a lot to be ... read more

Edit: I just keep returning to this album and I find it to be one of the most addicting albums of the year so far without a doubt. Like Piñata, it has really high replay value for me. It comes really close to being as amazing as predecessor. I love Freddie’s rapping, Madlib’s production and beats, and aside from that one antivax line in “Palmolive”, this album is enjoyable frontto back.

The hype has been building up for ages. A few years ago we got ... read more

EDIT: ok wow. Probably the most an album has changed for me in such a short period. My original score for this was a 43 btw.

But let’s take everything I said before and throw it out the window because this album has changed for me drastically.

I love it now. I think is Thom’s best project and has some of the most unique combinations of sounds being thrown together fluidly in an atmospheric electronic album. It is organic. It’s not like TMB or TKOL in the sense that it goes ... read more

Need I say anything? This is Bob Dylan we’re talking about with arguably his best work—the greatest lyricist of all time and an influential musician and pioneer of the folk-rock genre. There’s a lot to love about Blonde on Blonde and it deserves every bit of praise that it gets.

Catchy, well-written, and an amazing debut to one of the 90s’ most iconic bands, “Murmur” is one of the best albums of all time in my honest opinion. I appreciate it a lot and enjoy most if not all the cuts on the project. It’s just a classic. Funny to think that I wasn’t actually a fan of R.E.M. for quite some time! I didn’t stand Stipe’s vocals for a while and really only returned to their most overplayed song (“Losing my Religion”—a ... read more

A fucking masterpiece of an IDM album.

This has some jazz unlike anything I’ve heard before. Dark, addicting, and really unique. Unfortunately there are a few tracks I’d throw out of it but it’s still really solid solely because of perfecting dark jazz in many tracks.