The instrumentals are good, because of course they're good – look at the list of people involved. Still, there's something so incredibly tiring about Greep's shtick, and it's only becoming more and more obvious as he releases more music. Sure, it was interesting to listen to him sing about these doomed and flawed characters, but at some point, it becomes grating when every female character involved is either a prostitute or an object of sexual desire, and that is still ... read more

This has 'Pain' on it, which automatically makes it Sematary's best. Combine that with excellent hooks, great guest verses, an aesthetic that has been copied countless times since – even by Sematary himself – without any proper success, and you have yourself one of the best tapes of the 2010s.

Funny how this is literally one of the best songs of the 2010s.

Let me start off by saying that I have an extremely soft spot for the numbered albums, and probably cut them a lot more slack than other people do. They mark the beginning of a prolific and incredibly consistent creative output that Will Toledo would release in the following years, and with Car Seat Headrest being one of my all time favorites, I find it difficult to dislike any projects, yet alone the charming numbered albums.

The tape reversing, the almost headache-inducing reverb, the ... read more

The GTBSG project is packed with early songs by Drain Gang members, and not even for a moment does it get boring or over-long. It’s just as dreamy as the rest of their early works, drenched in autotune and atmospheric pads with repetitive rapping.

‘Moon Girl’ is probably my favorite Thaiboy Digital song of all time, and I just wish it went on for twice as long as it does. The atmosphere it manages to build is comparable with pretty much any other alternative R&B project ... read more

This might be my favorite King Gizzard album, and it's a shame that it's relatively far off from their usual sound, because I would have loved to hear more of this. The songs on here are infectious, everything is so insanely psychedelic, and there's some genuine songwriting on here, contrary to most other things that I've heard from them. My major complaint is that it feels a bit short and that a lot of the songs are a little too similar to one another, but that's not a horrible thing when the ... read more

King Gizzard's debut is an exciting garage rock album for the first five tracks, but unfortunately it loses its momentum after that, mostly due to 'Sam Cherry's Last Shot'. After that, it mostly starts to repeat the same musical ideas they worked with for the first half of the album, and while the second half isn't bad by any means, it doesn't get as exciting as the first did by any means. 'Nein' is an early career highlight, but the band went on to make albums that are a lot better than this ... read more

Kate Bush is a master of art pop, and while some find her to be overrated, there are few albums in the genre that can quite rival her stuff. The Sensual World is the last album in her legendary (and I don't think that label is up to discussion) 80s run, and while it's not as amazing as the three albums that precede it, it's nonetheless an album that many artists in adjacent genres could only dream of making.

As for the songs on here, ‘Love and Anger’ sounds like a song off Side A ... read more

Let me start this off by saying that I've heard most of this album already, most of them in bits and pieces here and there, and never the entire album as a whole. I love the undeniable classic that is their 1986 album, and while their self-titled album doesn't quite reach the heights that The Queen is Dead does, it's still a really good album.

My main complaint is that some of these songs feel a little uninspired and meandering, but there are quite a few exceptions that keep this album from ... read more

Obviously unnecessary, plus the fact that there's not much here of musical value and it makes an album I wasn't all that crazy about in the first place a couple of times worse, so I was bound to not enjoy it all that much. I kind of like 'Time', though...

Soundtracks for the Blind is in some ways larger than life. it feels like every idea the band has ever had but didn't know where to put ends up on this album, but somehow pretty much all of it works together. The songs seemlessly flow into each other and there is definitely an overarching feeling to it, thus only contributing to its larger-than-life feel.

There are songs in the latter half that I didn't particularly enjoy, especially 'I Love You This Much' – the only track that I also ... read more

I wasn't as crazy about Quadeca's most recent outing as most people, but this release is where my opinion apparently doesn't coincide with that of his fans'. There are moments of cool production here, especially on the second track, but the vocals are infuriating and just plain annoying, with brakence's feature not fitting on the first track. Speaking of that one, I just can't stand the way the beat and the vocals go together, there's something so off about it that I can't really put my finger ... read more

The Rockwood Escape Plan is an enjoyable bunch of tracks that manage to carry their dreamy and distinct vibe throughout, and while the actual material doesn’t justify its length, I still can’t deny that some of the tracks on here are early gems in the Devon Hendryx/JPEGMAFIA discography.

I’ve got the same complaints about this as I do about some of his later projects – mostly with Communist Slow Jams – where the project feels like a collage of ideas that he had ... read more

Shorter than pretty much every other Devon Hendryx project, Generation Y manages to be no less exciting, and packs just as much punch in its thirty minutes of runtime. Exciting ideas all over around, and while not every idea goes over well, I still have to commend it on its creativity.

Oh, and 'Amla Due' is possibly his best song ever.

The title track is one of the best metal tracks that I heard all year, but I'm pretty ambivalent to the other tracks on here, especially 'Gnęba'. The closer is pretty good, though, even if it's a little bit too long for its own good, and the opening serves as a nice prelude to the entire EP. Still, it's truly the title track that shines brighter than anything else on here, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes the genre.

On her debut album, Heaven Knows, PinkPantheress shows great promise with a collection of tightly produced bittersweet songs which showcase her talent for finding a catchy melody, while still leaving a bit to be desired.

It’s safe to say that 2023 has been an incredibly successful year for the artist, with Boy's a Liar Pt. 2 being one of the most popular songs of the year, and the songs from her 2021 mixtape commercially doing as well as ever. Speaking of ‘Boy’s a Liar Pt. ... read more

This is a vibe album through and through. The lyrics are far from special, and the songs get a little repetitive, but that doesn't matter when everything is as good as what's given to us here. Grimes delivers fifteen songs (for those listening to it on streaming services, make sure you check out 'Rasik', too) that put you in a trance-like state, and do so better than any of her later more acclaimed releases.

'Devon' and 'Dream Fortress' are my favorite songs on here, but I'd never listen to ... read more

One of the few albums that made me burst out laughing because of how annoying it is, and how a big part of the music world just adopted it as a masterpiece when it has next to no musical value, and by the second track its whole being funny shtick gets boring, so you just get to suffer through 28 tracks of mindless "experimentation".

no remaster was needed, especially one that just doesn't sound nearly as good

I can't even explain why I hate this one as much as I do but I wanted to rip my ears out the whole time, and I'm usually a fan of the band AND dance music respectively.