paranoid_riah

I like the title track. This is fine yall overreacting.

UK songstress PARIS PALOMA has released her debut album, CACOPHONY, exploring womanhood, romance, and nature through a lush soundscape. MY MIND (NOW) starts with a looped vocal melody and features lots of vocoder effects and then builds up to a soft rock number exploding with horns and drum fills. PLEASER, takes a haunting acoustic approach which invokes ENYA, or for a contemporary comparison, AURORA’s more natural cuts. HIS LAND plays to a similar lane but is a piano ballad where PARIS ... read more

Luke Black is certainly an interesting artist. He blends weird gothic imagery with gamer aesthetics, weird synths and just an odd combination of artistic ambition and some level of irony. I first heard SAMO MI SE SPAVA from Eurovision last year and checked out some of Luke’s previous stuff which was a mixed bag. I found that Luke could not sing. I no longer think this. Spotify recommends other Eurovision artists such as TEYA, who is friends with Luke. She plays more into ult pop and Luke ... read more

C, XOXO feels like a smoke-filled Miami haze. The album opens with I LUV IT with Playboi Carti, a song with unsettling hyperpop chords and an obnoxiously repetitive chorus. CHANEL NO. 5 takes a much more minimalist approach ignoring the weird breakdown in the instrumental. The content is lackluster hot girl stuff. The album has several interludes like the hazy PINK XOXO, which I won’t be rating. This fades into HE KNOWS with Lil Nas X, an odd choice of feature, but the song is pretty ... read more