Salt

This is the first album by a major artist this year that has genuinely impressed me. It has been a slower first half of the year for music in 2024, with my 3 favorite albums all being from non-mainstream artists. The Taylor Swift and MGMT albums were both major disappointments for me, and the Ariana Grande album that I thought would really kick off the year was just alright. Surprisingly, RM would end up being the one to end this cold streak for me. RM shows off great creativity throughout this ... read more

This band is a part of the local music scene at my university (I actually have a pretty strong idea of where the album cover was taken). This is my first time bothering to listen to any of the music from my local scene, after I had seen a different band perform here recently.
Overall, I think that this is okay indie rock. It's not really my type of indie music, so I'm not exactly the intended audience for this stuff, but I did find some parts of it interesting. I thought that ... read more