Saw them open for Julie and Fleshwater a month ago and started to get more into them since. Really solid debut album from Midrift. I do kinda wish the album was mixed a bit clearer, especially with the single versions of 'reaching for you' and 'safe and sound' both already showing that these songs could work better with less muddy production. This is really apparent with reaching for you, which I much prefer the single version of. That being said, this album is really solid ... 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
The evolution of NMIXX into a not just good, but great Kpop band is wild.
We are at a point in time where I would like to say that 5th gen Kpop has failed, its highest potential band (NewJeans) is stuck in legal purgatory, and its most popular band (LE SSERAFIM) refuses to make good music. IVE just hasn't been able to reach the apex that other bands have gotten to, and ILLIT is still too new to actually come to a consensus on.
Then there's NMIXX, a group who REFUSED to even consider ... read more
I have a conspiracy theory that LE SSERAFIM is a PSYOP by HYBE to see just how bad music can get before Kpop listeners stop listening.
I really loved the two albums that I have previously listened to by yeule (softscars & Serotonin II), and Evangelic Girl is a Gun follows that same trend (kind of).
While I did like this album a decent amount, I think that it has a lot of wasted potential. The beginning and end are both amazing, but there is a 4-song stretch from 1967 to What3vr that is just not that interesting. If this were just more consistent, it could be the same quality as Serotonin II, but this middle part really ... read more
Asian Glow really hit us with the world's longest retirement :)))))
Listened to this after listening to the 30-minute version of the title track, and the actual album is pretty good as well. I can't really compare this to any of his previous work as I don't remember much of his last 2 albums, and its not as good as the other album that resulted from this project, but around half of the songs on the project made it onto one of my playlists, so I see that as a win in my ... read more
Oh look, Quadeca made a new albu- A FUCKING 95 USER SCORE WHAT.
This album is so immensely beautiful, and I struggle to find a good way to describe what I've just listened to. Although I didn't really pay too much attention to the lyrics, you are still able to understand the feeling of being lost at sea throughout the project. Quadeca does such a great job of sucking you into the soundscape of this work. It is insanely rare for me to be able to listen to a 60+ minute album without ... read more
TLDR: I really don't like it
This is the biggest nothingburger of an album I've heard from One OK Rock. Sure, Eye of the Storm may be worse, but at least that album had SOME high points. There is genuinely nothing to even take note of in this album; it feels like if you took 'Ambitions' and then sucked out everything that made that album even slightly interesting. I swear Taka is the most washed songwriter I've ever had the misfortune of listening to. This makes me ... read more
I really like 'you' but the rest of this EP is okay. tbf I don't know if I'm really the target audience for emo hyperpop
I don't know what happened in the past 3 years, but apparently No Buses now sing in Japanese and is really good at it. I haven't listened to any of No Buses new stuff ever since the release of their last album 'Sweet Home.' Within that timeframe, it seems that they have fully changed their musical identity and found out how to make the sound of their previous album sound good.
I pretty much spent the 30 minute duration of the album sitting here looking like a shocked ... read more