I couldn’t imagine a worse place to live than Florida. The weather is miserable 11 months out of the year. The state is covered in sprawling, closed-off suburbs, ugly strip malls, and… not much else. We have very little mass transit and the car culture is pervasive. The people are legendarily scary. Our school system is bankrupt and crumbling. The governor is corrupt. It’s flat as a pancake, and there is almost no natural beauty to be found. This is why when my parents ... read more
Can we talk about how bad the rollout for this album was? I mean, one of the singles (SKED) dropped like, 10 months ago, and seemed like it was building up to a whole other project since it shared a themed cover with a bunch of singles that didn’t make this album. I remember a remaster of the BLOOD IN + BLOOD OUT tape being rumored at some point when those singles were dropping. Kinda wish we’d gotten that since the hyper-industrial sound he was going for on that tape isn’t ... read more
I used to make a point out of listening to a couple really long trap mixtapes each year from really big names in the industry. Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake in 2020, Young Thug’s Punk in 2021, Gunna’s DS4EVER in 2022… all of these tapes rank among the most forgettable, inconsistent, and generally mediocre albums I’ve ever heard. When I saw this new Bladee tape is 63 minutes and 30 tracks long… I was pretty certain I was in for a pretty similar experience. ... read more
Kobaryo is an artist I’ve been familiar with for a while now, being one of the preeminent speedcore producers working right now. If you’re unfamiliar, speedcore is a genre of hardcore electronic music unsurprisingly characterized by ridiculously fast tempos usually upwards of 300 bpm. Songs in this genre get so fast that the kick drum hits kind of blend together into a continuous tone, which is a really difficult sound to get used to if you haven’t already gotten yourself used ... read more
The first review I’m posting in like a year… and it’s Genshin Impact music. And I’m giving it a 100. How far I've fallen.
I got way too into this game for a few months late last year. Like, in that time I must’ve put in two or three hundred hours. I still hate being lumped in with Genshin fans, but I guess this is who I am now… I just gotta own it. If you want to hear my in-depth thoughts about this game, I have a 93-minute-long unscripted review video on ... read more
Update 2: I realized recently that I haven't returned to this album nearly as much as you'd think I would over the course of the year given the fact I have it as a perfect score. Because of that I was honestly considering as the year came to a close to bring the score down... but I just can't bring myself to do it.
I discovered this album, and Parannoul as a whole, during one of the worst periods of my life, as starting in the spring and summer of 2023 I've had to deal with a really severe ... read more




