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I don't hate cloud rap nor do I hate this general flavor of rap, but Kane Grocerys is just soooooo uninteresting. You take fairly interesting production, some genuinely pretty good features, a hard ass cover, and a few catchy flows and just absolutely shit all over it with some of the most bored rapping I've ever heard. So much of this project feels stitched together in post like how Vanilla Ice's "Hard To Swallow" copy pasted verses he made on other songs and ... read more

Seacats' self titled is a pretty standard indie rock project. It was recommended to me by a friend who got through a breakup with help from this album, and the songs all lyrically fit the bill. It's a very weezer-esque project and as an ex-weezer glazer I found this to be a bit of a guilty pleasure. It's not perfect, the production's a bit iffy, but this project must have the ability Contrary the way it takes those low points and makes them strengths that enhance the feel of ... read more

I don't listen to music that isn't in my mother tongue very often. Forgive me for being an anglocuck or whatever term y'alls use for people like me, but I care about lyricism more than most when it comes to understanding the artist's emotions and the stories they wish to tell. Needless to say, though, I don't need a translator to tell that there were serious emotions and heart put into this project. Each song feels more ethereal than the last and it compounds into the ... read more

Never thought I'd listen to a Disco album in 2025 and absolutely adore it, but Jessie Ware managed to shatter my expectations completely on this one. It's sooooooo smooth and full of moments that are equally as exciting as they are romantic. Her vocals compliment everything perfectly to the point where each track was about as addicting as the last. Spotlight opens the album up and was such a kick in the balls for how high it set the bar and every single track on the sucker just kept ... read more

If you know me, you know I fucking love this album. It was something one of my closest friends put me onto when I was still in the infancy of really thinking about music on a deeper level, and needless to say that when my best friend first put it onto a Discord music bot and asked me what I thought... I said I absolutely hated it and it was the stupidest thing I had ever heard.

This took me time. Time that started with me enjoying Never Known Questions a bit on my walks as a teenager, ... read more

This one's a hard one for me to rate. Initially I went into it giving it a low 6 as I was overall disappointed that an album with these really interesting unique highs like Black Rice and Shaking Hand was also riddled with tracks that I felt were mind-numbingly morose like Woodbine and Flashlights. It took me a whole proper relisten before I felt like I was even qualified to talk on this weirdo of an album. Overall? It is a surprisingly solid album that I enjoy far more on my relisten as I ... read more

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/prfly/album/463133-donda-2/

Everything I say there applies here

Yippee!!!!! Yiiipeeeeee!!!!! Yippee!!! Yaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!! Yayyy!!! Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

This thing's so full of energy and I kind of love it. Plays it really safe and so I wouldn't call it anything crazy or innovative or worthy of changing anyones lives, but the VIBES man the VIBES dude its like being a kid and playing Wii Sports again on Sunday afternoons again man the VIBES are out of this world and for that I gotta give it a respectable 7/10 for being this nice short ... read more

As someone who listened to Geogaddi and MHTRTC, I was pretty excited going into this project. I love those projects and am always down to listen to whatever crazy bleeps and bloops the duo puts out because it's always going to be quality bleeps and bloops. That holds true here, as there isn't a single bad song on the record. HOWEVER, the project is a lot more ambient and distant than I would like. That isn't a bad thing per se, as the record is intentionally carries this sense of ... read more

I've seen a lot of words be used to describe Psyence Fiction and Unkle's work in general. Experimental, groundbreaking, innovative, rich and complex... but none of them hit the hammer on the head of why I love this album. They're all apt descriptions, yeah, but Psyence Fiction, above all else, is really fucking cool. Every single track on here has such a natural swagger that's paralleled in my mind to skateboarding or old beat-em-up flash games. Songs like Guns Blazing, ... read more

Absolutely stunning album. I listen to plenty of ambient records in my spare time, and they're all extremely pretty, don't get me wrong. But Grouper's A I A: Alien Observer is on another level. Songs like Vapor Trails and Mary, On The Wall have these elements of vulnerability to them that makes the project unimaginably beautiful. What I love here, that I think a lot of ambient projects have but don't capitalize on to the extent that Alien Observer does, is that feeling of ... read more

When the normal daddy is hard!!! 😂😂😂

I'm not really an avid Drill and Bass listener. I've heard some Venetian Snares and Nasenbluten if those even count, but it's a genre I have just never had the time to get my hands real dirty with, unfortunately. As far as introductions to the scene go, though, this album is no slouch. I was hooked with how the percussion was used from track to track in so many different ways that I never thought were possible through just drum ... read more

Close enough welcome back The Wolf Returns

its everywhere

I like this a lot more than Revengeseekerz. The songs themselves feel a lot more rich with powerful combinations of electronic and rock with every song. Her actual performance, which was my biggest gripe with said album, fits a lot better here as you get a really nice blend of laid back, sensual moments and explosive crescendos. It reminds me of a sort of prototypical SMILE! :D by Porter Robinson where it has these elements working back and forth but lacks a lot of the structure and emotional ... read more

My least favorite song of all time.

I sometimes listen to the radio every now and then because overall I feel like 2024 was the year where the radio started getting legitimate hits with dudes like Kendrick, SZA, Billie Eilish and plenty others dropping some of their catchiest, most radio-friendly songs. It's really refreshing being able to not rely on the aux, because for a gooood stretch of from 2020 to 2023 the radio was absolutely plagued by the same few Taylor Swift songs if it ... read more

Really, really beautiful album

The first art of the project took a while to grow on me but overall I think the album delivers on this really cool blend of electronic and folksy elements. I think it just needs a bit more of the kind of experimental jawdropping moments that i,i had to really stand out but as it stands this is still a really solid project and one of my favorites of 2025 thus far. Got huge late-stage Pink Floyd vibes from some tracks and that's a compliment

Why have I not taken my own life yet?

That's a question I find myself asking every now and then, and one I found the answer to while listening to Vanilla Ice's nu-metal project Hard To Swallow. Before I get to telling you the answer to my predicament, first I need to explain what the deal is with Hard To Swallow. This project, a freak of nature that should not have been made, was made by Vanilla Ice, a freak of nature that should not have been made. There are several, and I mean ... read more

I'm unsure of how I feel about Isaac no longer doing the singing now that he's left the band, but as it stands this album is absolutely gorgeous. The highs are some of the best this year with the only thing I think holds it back are that some tracks overstay their welcome, it is incredible that they managed to put this out while they're still figuring things out. Usually, a band like this would have a less than desirable album as they enter a transitional period where they still ... read more

This is a pathetic excuse of an album made by a pathetic excuse of a person

Production here ranges from "a worse chop of a sample that was already chopped by a better, more popular beat" to "lol lmao"

AI verses litter this thing and, while I'd be abhorred by it usually, I can't find a more fitting inclusion for a project that reeks of soulless slop like this. This is the bar that Ye has set for himself with the only positives being that it is not as obnoxiously ... read more