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
I'd imagine that this is much better live. The production kinda kills this project for me; there needs to be some work done on how in-my-face the vocals are throughout the EP. I could not tell you anything about the instrumentals in this project (shoegaze EP btw) because the person who did the mix forgot that you need to be able to hear the instruments in the first place.
The mix is overall just confusing; the instrumentals are the most compressed I've ever heard, but the vocals ... read more