Unction....GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

Yeah, it's safe to say that WTC still got it. The first album in nearly 10 whole years to feature the whole clan since the unfortunate NFT album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the boys come in swinging once again with crisp flows, flawless wordplays, and that very same Wu-Tang bite everyone knows and loves from 36 Chambers. A lot of people expect Wu-Tang albums to be the next 36 Chambers, and to me it was more than clear that the clan were actively ... read more

It honestly makes a lot of sense that this album centers around multiple personalities and alter egos, because my experience listening to this resembled a Moon Knight-esque schizophrenic breakdown. I asked a lot of questions throughout this project, mainly "why?", "huh?" and "what the fuck?", along with multiple variations of the 3. In fact, the very foundation of the album is in no way indicated! At least, not without looking at promotional material that looks ... read more

From the Private Collection of Saba & No I.D. is a very aptly named album. It's exactly what it sounds like: a curated, personal, and almost archival collaboration, a project that feels unearthed rather than created, like finding an old crate of unreleased tapes in a dusty basement. There's an oddly intimate feel to a lot of its songs that give the album a sense of authenticity. Saba is a pretty decent rapper with some clean flows, sharp lyrics, and clearly having some stories to ... read more

One of the best groups in the world have been having a pretty damn good summer. After Chaeyoung, Jeongyeon, and Jihyo absolutely slaughtered K-Pop Demon Hunters' TAKEDOWN, the whole team is back in full force for a brand new 14-song album. And they FUCKING. KILLED IT. AGAIN. Right out the gate, THIS IS FOR and OPTIONS blast out the gate with snappy pop and smooth vocals, setting the stage for what was to come. It's these two songs that show what TWICE does best, but then MARS comes ... read more

Hurry Up Tomorrow - The Weeknd

It feels weird to live through the end of an era, but here I am writing a review of The Weeknd's final ever album. And as expected from the now-christened Abel Tesfaye, Hurry Up Tomorrow is yet another edition in the Weeknd's now-concluded all-timer discography. Easily the most reflective and personal album Abel has released to date, he takes a bit of a break from the crazy narrative he had built up with the previous 2 entries of his trilogy to instead ... read more

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The most recent album in the slowly creeping into all time discography of Aimyon reaches its newest entry in Jealous of Cats, and one thing was made clear from the beginning of it all - this is clearly her most inspired work production wise. All throughout the album we see various usages that up the ante of the instrumental from rhythmic bass to soaring strings to trouncing piano to oddly tuned electric guitar to create a unique sound, and of course, her signature acoustic guitar. It's ... read more

I genuinely wanted to copypaste the beginning of my Toxic Planet review because there's genuinely no better way I could have begun this review than the way I begun that one, but I'll just summarize it here. Synth = Me likey. And this album is definitely no exception. If I said Toxic Planet was a "running up the Rocky steps" synthwave type album, this is a "driving in a convertible with the roof down with wind blowing through your hair and shades" synthwave type ... read more

I have ALWAYS been a synth guy. Like, always. The soundtrack to TRON: Legacy is my favorite movie OST of ALL TIME, and Daft Punk is a top 3 artist of all time for me as well. Mega Drive, Ace Buchannon, MEGAHAMMER, Street Cleaner, mix it with rock like Reckless Love, mix it with hip-hop like The Weeknd, you name it, I love it. So from the moment I pressed play on Toxic Planet by Cobra Man, I was instantly entrenched within comforting, warm familiarity. This time it blends synthwave with a sound ... read more

This album makes it abundantly clear that NIKI's biggest strength is her ability to correctly utilize atmosphere. Instead of *certain* artists who attempt a mass one-size-fits-all approach to no avail, Nicole is very adept at changing up the way the song sounds to serve the narrative, without changing very much of her own personal style much at all. Through meticulous production and even the slightest vocal changes such as syllable emphasis and raising pitch, she's able to immerse the ... read more

If there was a K-Pop Mount Rushmore, IU would have a very strong claim to be Teddy Roosevelt. The Nation's Little Sister came in swinging with 2 very good releases, good enough for mainstream, in fact, in Growing Up and IU...IM, but it was Real that had given IU a ginormous surge in popularity to the point where she became a national icon. And it's genuinely not very hard to see why. IU brings her best to this one of a kind EP where her young age coupled with her excellently produced ... read more

Well this is interesting. Due to a friend, I finally made time to come around and listen to Chappell Roan, one of the newest pop sensations on the block that's been taking the music world by storm this year. And her first album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, was released to acclaim by music critics. And I'll definitely say this - the influences are extremely strong and blatant. As a guy who loves 80's music and grew up on 2000's music, it was a blast from the past ... read more

The premiere boy band themselves. Thanks to Deadpool and Wolverine, I've been on a bit of an *NSYNC kick lately, but mostly that just meant listening to (and learning the dance to) Bye Bye Bye. But then I decided to listen to another one of their more iconic songs, It's Gonna Be Me - and now I'm looping that one as well. These guys are unreal at their craft. The true defining boy band of the era's most famous album doesn't disappoint in the least with creative and ... read more

With a great beginning to her career now in the rearview mirror, Tamago left a lot of people with their expectations well and set for what Aimyon would eventually do next. And I’m Afraid of Being a Hated Child did not disappoint. It's in this album that you can begin to really see the Aimyonisms come out - the heavy usage of acoustic guitar and whimsical sound effects as part of instrumental production, her incredible singing voice on full display, and song topics that would ... read more

Aimyon was a musician who started out from fairly humble beginnings - she began writing music in high school and performed them on a friend's YT channel and was discovered that way. But as she didn't want to debut instantly and burn out her love of music through corporate meddling, she decided to wait it out and publish through an independent label first. And thus we have *Tamago*, Aimyon's first ever mini-album. And as a huge fan of her music, it was really enjoyable Leonardo ... read more