Completely mind oblitering stuff the whole way through

Thanks @mayuheow for sending me your new album!
This is really pretty! It incorperates a lot more different styles from the previous album I've listened from you. It's still ambient, but it inludes a lot more electronic and acoustic elements to it. They all work really well here, and it makes the album sound more expansive.

Really great ambient album with heavy use of guitar instrumentals. It's a very densely layered album, so I'm surprised everything comes together as well as it does. The electronic and acoustic elements mesh really well. It does drag a little in the middle, like they couldn't naturally stretch all the ideas they had over the entire runtime. Still a decent album with production that's aged really well.

I've been vaguely aware of Mei Semones for a little while now, I loved her song with John Roseboro, but I've yet to check out a full project by her. Probably my favourite aspect of the album is the singing, it's so warm and comforting, it elevates every song on the album. Something else super respectable about the album is how it fuses elements of Bossa Nova and indie music. It's not a combination I've really seen before, at leats to this degree, and Mei Semones pulls ... read more

Sampha is really in his own lane with this album, the production sounds completely unique to anything else I've heard. It's a combination of modern R&B and soul production, but mixed with some subtle electronic elements. The electronic elements at times reminded me slightly of Autechre, with how fast-paced, delicate, and glitchy it sounded, and it worked surprisingly well with Sampha's very soulful singing. The themes of hope through trying times and the power of community ... read more

A very free flowing album, being purely instrumental, it's easy to find yourself lost in these sounds. The folk instrumentation here makes the album sound almost ritualistic. Everything sounds purposefully rough around the edges. The songs don't really follow a set structure, there are droning pieces, and some much busier pieces. They both compliment each other, they both sound very cold and isolating, the instruments here sound strained, like they could fall apart any second, and it ... read more

This feels a lot more expansive than his previous album. This album is goes for a more electronic approach, while retaining a lot soul foundation. Holley also sounds a lot angrier and more expressive than before. That beind said, "Oh Me, Oh My" has much higher highs, nothing quite reached the same level of "Mount Meigs" for me.

Thanks @natimomusic for sending me your song!
The song really picked up towards the end, where everything crescendos and it all sounds great. The writing here is blunt, and while it can seem on the nose at first, I'm interested to see how it works in the context of the album.

I wish I liked this as much as their debut, but that loose energy which made that album so special isn't really present here. The music tries to be overwhelming more than have fun and catchy melodies that stick with you. The singing also feels less expressive, I guess it makes sense that, 7 years later, they're going to be simmered down more, and the music is going to be less bombastic. It's still a little dissappointing, especially because there are some genuinely great musical ... read more

A very pretty album, the guitar playing feels very floaty, and the singing is really pleasant to listen to. There's some subtle experimentation here that also prevents this album from getting boring or repetitive at any point. Definitely recommend if you liked the new BCNR album. Just an overall fun listen from beginning to end.

The vocals took some time getting used to, all the different vocal effects, and all the other distorted production can make this album sound pretty distorienting, but in the best way possible. The whole album goes very hard, the way the album handles themes of rage and frustration in a very raw way is admirable. The writing feels confrontational, against the people who want to drag them for simply existing, it feels very cathartic. The production was probably the highlight, I can't say ... read more

An album unseparable from the context of its creation, and it gives everything, especially the writing, a lot more weight. You can tell that there's a lot more emption behind the writing here. That being said, if you were to view this album in a vacuum, it wouldn't seem that out of place compared to anything else he had done, his almost spoken word delivery and distinct style of writing are ever present. That being said, his delivery on "I'll turn your money green" is ... read more

It's a nice little album, I can see how this wouldn't be for everyone but I found the whole thing pretty charming, if a bit short.

It's a perfect album if you want to get into very lyrical heavy abstract hip hop. The production is very low-key, and it works to create an incredibly cohesive album. Premrock's rapping can vary from equally as low-key, to incredibly energetic. All of the features do a great job at delivering something of equal quality. Favourite tracks would be Potemkin Village Voice and Receipts.

A very laid back album, it's your standard slowcore affair, but it's done really well. Everything is mixed so well, the vocals almost sound like they're swimming in the guitars. Every song is jsut really easy to listen to and the whole album is super accessible.

It's just a worse version of Stretch 2, but not terrible. It's still interesting to compare this EP to some stuff she would release within a few years to see how far she would come in a relatively short time.

Doechii is one of the most talented rappers of the last few years, simple as.

Simply phenomenal, the very bleak subject matter is made even more so when considering how little it's aged. Clark's writing is very matter of fact, it's painting as clear a picture as possible on the state of Britain in the early 80s. Discussions of the proliferation and ever-present threat of nuclear anhilation, the way art can be used to distract each other from how awful life can be sometimes, and the oppression of people who don't confine to the narrow "status ... read more

A very angry, and a very noisy album. The singing can be a little incoherent if you aren't playing super close attention to the lyrics, but it also adds to how this album feels like all the bottled up rage being spilled out. All the instruments are recorded to make the whole album feel super claustriphobic, and it works.

Thanks to @ShirubaGin for the recommendation!
Some pretty decent production, the samples here added a lot of depth to the music, and made it stand apart from a lot of other albums of a similar nature. Can't say much else was all that paticularly interetsing, it's just a good iteration of what I've seen done before.