ShonkMusique

Teens of Denial (Taylor's Version)

So they dubbed over the profane lines in most songs while leaving the rest of the original vocal as is - not a major issue in and of itself to me. But then Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales has entirely re-recorded vocals, even though only two of its lines were changed? At that point, why not just re-record the vocals for every song?

This album's biggest sin is just being kind of unneccesary - even the update of DD/KW isn't BAD per se, it just ... read more

Actually a vast improvement over the previous single for me - nice atmospheric guitars and a more inspired sense of melody overall. That includes the vocals, which probably would have been better without Autotune buuuut it is what it is.
I guess Reality Awaits might have Autotuned Julian for the entire thing... worst Strokes album incoming? Probably. But I'm still hopeful for a good album.

Spongebob laugh ahh chorus

Sounds like it was thrown together in an hour, which isn't necessarily a bad thing to me, but my interest in the fuzzy instrumental was largely undone by the song being less than 2 minutes long. Also the vocals are an earworm but yeah, not sure how I feel about them.

I would be interested to hear her pursue this musical direction further but I hope this is is just meant to be a warm-up, rather than a proper lead single for a whole new album

I don't get how people can glaze The New Abnormal while also shitting on this album, where a bunch of tracks feel like a dry run for the next album haha

My only substantial critique is that it comes off more like a collection of songs cobbled together than a cohesive album, but when some of those songs happen to be quite awesome, that doesn't really matter in the end.
This album is based, fuck the haters

Best track: 80's Comedown Machine
Honourable mentions: Call It Fate, Call ... read more