Madvillainy is the greatest rapping performance of DOOM's career and the greatest producing performance of Madlib's career. When you observe the quality of their other projects and sheer quantity of albums they've been on it makes apparent just how impossible a feat it'd seem to be getting their peaks to overlap, and yet they did. Despite DOOM's plethora of albums from his own name to countless aliases and collaborations, despite Madlib's involvement producing over ... read more
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE YEAR !!! 5/26: SISTER
I've only heard it once so far so technically I'm a bit unsubstantiated in calling this a 10/10, but holy fuck if it wasn't a great listen. Pop mannerisms met with constantly overwhelming EDM and House is a combo that makes me very very happy given all my favorite Electropop leans on something like Indietronica or EDM. I'll definitely be checking out the rest of the Frost Children discog and excitedly peeping what they do ... read more
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE YEAR !!! 4/26: Delete Yourself
What a mindblower. One of two very glitchy albums I've had the pleasure to check out this year (shoutout stickerbush & heaven souls), I am once again very happy by the end of it. There are bits of absolutely infectious energy, whiplash inducing calm, and sometimes just static being shot into your brain, I love all of these things. There really is not a favorite song to choose here because they're all so clearly ... read more
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE YEAR !!! 3/26: Only Dust Remains
Yet another piece of proof that rap has clearly not fallen off this year. I don't have as much to say about this album as I wish I did because it falls a bit outside of my taste, but the sound is something I can't stop coming back to and the peaks of this album (namely Wake Up and 9th Heaven) are some of the best rap tracks from any album this year. The production is phenomenal but it wouldn't hit the same without ... read more
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE YEAR !!! 2/26: Birthing
I've always held myself to fully respecting the art put in front of me when listening to albums, and some of my favorite albums ever are over triply as long as this (EATEOT and Daughter of Darkness), but I cannot see a point in the length of this album or what it's trying to convey artistically. I can't call it bad because it is genuinely very interesting at times when it comes to its musical aspects, but those moments ... read more
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE YEAR !!! 1/26: Sinister Grift
Sinister Grift is an album I'd heard quite a bit about over the year, but I never found a real reason to listen to it until I saw it on Fantano's year end list in the top 10 and simultaneously learned it was from someone who was part of Animal Collective, a group I hear quite a bit about despite my lack of engagement otherwise (I'll listen someday). Over the course of the album I completely understood why so many people ... read more
sometimes you just gotta get down with some wankery guitar and some fucky rock
This would be so peak if the first song was also a 10/10 but it's a clear step below the rest of the EP. Another fire addition to Jane's releases from this year between Revengseekerz, Venturing and a fuckload of singles.
A proper and actualized return to the band's capabilities prior to In the Unlikely Event. It's the type of album to give a fan hope for the future.
A lovely return to form after a hiatus that lasted longer than the band's entire first run of albums. It doesn't near the same highs, but it does give you one more reason to listen for what's next.
Maybe I'm just too much of a fan to hate. This album is covered with inconsistency issues and a sort of unsureness after the band has seemingly exhausted themselves from their first six years of releasing music, but it's the same band I love and outside of literally the worst song TFOT has ever made it doesn't dip so low that I can call it bad. Its quality is a wave going over and under the bar repeatedly which leads to something that's just alright all in all.
Another great release that is more refined than TFOT's debut while missing the sort of sauce it or Doppelganger has. It excels with its consistency and fresh approach to the band's sound which affords it the rating I'm giving it imo.
With a mixture of songs foreshadowing their next album, the career-defining Doppelganger, and the other half of unique tracks you get a pretty great picture painted of how good The Fall of Troy were and had the potential to be. For fucks sake, Thomas Erak was 18 and he was the oldest one in the band, the fact they conceived of this is mental.
The Fall of Troy are so good that they have 2 magnum opuses. Get fucked other math rock bands !!
It's cool but I can't give it the credit I would to any main SOAD album
A 5/10, balanced. Not because it's middling, not because I have little to say about it, the opposite. This album is both amazing and awful, captivating yet only like a car crash, avant-garde but blurring the line between things that are hard to understand because they're complicated to understand and things that are hard to understand because there's nothing to understand. It is everything and nothing at the same time, which evens out to an "eh".
Turns out this is Tylers actual peak form. I cried multiple times during this listen. This album is pretty good huh.
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Maybe it's criminal for my favorite samba album ever to be made by a japanese dude, but I don't care. This album is beautiful and wonderful, and a real must listen type album both within Takanaka's discography and jazz fusion as a whole.
I was always gonna end up giving it a 100 wasn't i? This album has some of my favorite sax lines from any album of the 2020s period, some of the best songs of the past decade, and is the true proving work for Isaac Wood's musical talent and genius.
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