Sando

Chat Pile’s biggest flaw with their debut is being almost too relentless. ‘God’s Country’ is a non-stop sonic bombardment, slamming through topics both on the personal and the societal scales with animalistic fury. For me, the band’s relative naivety is highlighted in the songwriting of some tracks, with the narrative being held in limbo with a few too many repetitions and call-backs - the lyrics could still be more incisive, to keep in line with the razor-sharp ... read more

Yeezy Szn 😎

20 minutes of Japanese girls screaming at me

Aside from Teletype, none of the singles for this record really piqued my interest - which only fuelled my enjoyment of everything else after that first leg, because my word does the quality pick up from 'Jennifer' onwards. This is probably EE's most fun release to date, and their idiosyncratic style of indie rock flourishes with this jubilant freedom. Even with a few, lets say, questionably random lyrics (partly AI generated, at that), Raw Data Feel manages to stay coherent and conceptual - if ... read more