Knats are very quickly becoming among my favorite current bands and are near handily the best jazz act i've heard from the past couple years. Their ability to create such a full and characteristic atmosphere in so many ways, to change tone from somber to manic to cheerful as effortlessly as breathing, that nice ass tone from the horn players, and of course, the soloes, all converge to give them an unmatchable musical firepower throughout this album.
Greep is producing it, that's how ... read more
awesome ska punk jazzgrind whatever you wanna call it, this album manages to bounce around and produce more variance and interesting ideas in 16 minutes than a vast majority of 40+ minute albums i've heard
I have been waiting to rate this forever.
This is what finally made Magbay click for me musically. It's flawless. A genuine must hear and easy AOTY contender for 2025/2026 (whichever one suits your fancy).
Ransom may have some of the most annoying delivery of all time, singlehandedly ruined the project for me
Ima be real I wanted to like this but no amount of being well made can save it from being boring. There's so little going on with 90% of the tracks that I'd have to turn my brain off entirely and zone out just to not be bored. Outside of Past Won't Leave My Bed, Sojourn and DYKILY there's not a track here that was satisfying much at all for me. Nothing offensively bad, but really not an ounce of anything impressive or captivating. I'll see about Joji's other music ... read more
Ok so, this is perfect within the context of Vanisher but I already gave the extended edition a 10 so I think it'd be more productive to review how this EP stands as its own character. Part I is an immensely beautiful effort with an atmosphere that really feels like it places the listener in its world and covers them entirely, generally continuing to show some of the aspects of music Quad shines brightest at despite what is stripped from it. Part II is a more serene effort that ends up ... read more
Just as good as the original Vanisher in its own ways. The five inclusions here are Learning to Swim, Melisa, and the three tracks on the second disc. Learning to Swim is the track I may have had the most issues with given I think it interrupts the fine transition sonically and narratively from waging war to ruin my life, but it still works inbetween them and beyond that it has some of the best atmospheres of any song on the album which is really saying something in my opinion. Secondly ... read more
If this is truly J. Cole's final act, it was a fitting one and worth the wait entirely. This album feels like Cole doing his best to retaliate against the idea that he's somehow boring or uninteresting or basic, taking a lot of ideas I've never heard even a semblance of in other hip hop and implementing them without fail. J. Cole experimenting musically and those experiments clearly landing and he's also rapping good on the project? Is this the twilight zone? No, it's ... read more
If I had to designate my first perfect score of the year, I'd give it to this album every single time.
My Ghosts Go Ghost is an album that has been hyped far before it was announced due to the amount of attention placed on Ritchie and Parker Corey after both their massively acclaimed breakout in By the Time I Get to Phoenix as well as them taking up the name By Storm after the loss of one Steppa J. Groggs. Zig-Zag and Double Trio 2 had me in full belief whatever they released would be ... read more
This'd be a 60 but the bonus track pissed me off because it sucked. Overall about expected, flashy soloes, some great highs, and some general inconsistencies and lows that drag the album down. Regardless, this is a rewarding and fitting conclusion to mark the end of an all time great metal band no doubt.
Despite what my account may imply I really do try to be temperate in giving out tens, I don't hand them to just any album and I'm always confident in it when I do put one on an album, but I don't know that there's ever been a more immediate 10/10 album in the history of albums to me than this one. In the Nightside Eclipse is a true masterpiece that embodies everything black metal should be and almost easily sits at the top of it.
An album of impressively phenomenal peaks that falls short just a bit too often for me to call it perfect.
First 2026 album review, and it's a big one. Plenty of people didn't even think this'd come out so it's kinda cool to have it now.
Maybe I'm just easy to please, but this seems really good. I was NOT one of the people who had to wait 8 years for this bc I wasn't invested in Rocky until a year ago, but regardless I think the variance of sounds on here between Rocky's various flows and deliveries, work with his features and the chosen beats are all great. ... read more
Somehow this wasn't actually that bad, it's pretty clearly not great but the instrumentals are solid and the choir delivers a lot more than I would've expected given it's the Walmart Associate Choir.
A solid effort from a band I'd probably call underrated, though can you really be underrated if you aren't very rated to begin with? This album's greatest shortcoming is that Impulse is so much bgetter than the other material on it that it makes them look bad in comparison if you let it, but the rest of the album provides plenty still.
easily the greatest deluxe of any album ever.
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