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Alright, now that I've reviewed some personal favorite albums of mine that I'd neglected to talk about in the past, we can return to our regularly scheduled programming: Simon Continues to Complain About Unoriginal Trap. Honestly, I'd definitely rather listen to "Whole Lotta Red" over the similarly anticipated and unimpressive "Eternal Atake", although Playboi Carti's Christmas gift is more tedious in a few different ways. For one, it's way too long. Unjustifiably long. ... read more

Nmesh's first outing into vaporwave, "Nu.wav Hallucinations", is rarely considered his greatest work, but all too often I find myself listening to it over any of his other releases--I can't help but to call it my favorite Nmesh project. It's got this magnetic pull to it that always makes me want to revisit it; it's one of the most purely hypnotic, entrancing, hypnotizing vaporwave albums in existence. Its rhythmic vocal sampling and gorgeous ambient passages make for one of my ... read more

"One-Armed Bandit" is a strong return to Jaga Jazzist's jazzy roots after their predominantly post-rock masterwork "What We Must". While they started out as Norway's premiere nu jazz export, this record emphasizes the "nu" part of the genre much less--this is very much a proggy jazz fusion album through and through. Frank Zappa fans, take note--traces of "Hot Rats" can be immediately heard straight from the first seconds of the title track. In general, I ... read more

Now here's an album whose immediate, ground-shaking appeal I could never understand. Not for a lack of experience with said appeal; "What We Must" is, simply put, one of the absolute greatest LPs I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. But for all the praise I piled onto "A Livingroom Hush", for as deeply as I could analyze the instrumental intricacies on any given song there...something about "What We Must" is different, and I can't put my finger on why. What ... read more