Deep, dark, and atmospheric, yeule's debut album Serotonin II envelops a listener in a cocoon of noise, flitting in and out of some hidden reservoir of memory.
This is a project that prioritizes one of my favorite things in music--texture. Every vocal chop or smothered bassline is a building block in an intricate and desolate sound world, filled with the musician's anxieties from a life spent online. Even the more upbeat tracks, like "Pixel Affection" or "Pretty ... read more
"To party" is an absolute gem. The rest are just alright, but Mayvi is certainly an artist I'd watch out for. Highly recommend her stuff for cece natalie fans.
Cherie's got a great ear for hooks, and this album is full of potential, but everything in it gets stifled by a whole lot of aggressively generic and mediocre production. Her live presence is astounding, and her artistic vision clear; I'm sure that once she finds some better collaborators she'll be a formidable force. For now this lukewarm entry is her only released full-length, but I'll be waiting.
Listen Up: this white boy knows something we don't
Two Star is Mk.gee's so-far magnum opus; on it, he channels the disparate ideas and influences that peek through across his uneven earlier works into a precisely crafted sort of energy--laid-back without ever being tired and elaborate without being tiresome. It confines itself within a relatively small sonic range, but the alchemy worked there is simply stellar.
At just half an hour long, Two Star is pretty slim, but every song ... read more




