I'm kinda a sucker for the acoustic emo feeling intro/build and I don't hate the hardstyle climax that the song reaches but there's something about it that isn't connecting enough for me to love the song. I haven't been a big fan of glaive, his style feels a bit stale to me and he falls into the same pool as artists like brakence, where there are some tracks that bop but there are others that just hit me the wrong way and feel corny. In my opinion this track doesn't fall into that trap and it ... read more

My first course of action when I made my aoty account was to swiftly give Stop Making Sense a 100/100 score because at the time it was the first thing that popped in my head when I thought of something front to back flawless. I am so so so pleasantly surprised by this cover and it has me incredibly excited to hear the rest of the tracks from the tribute album.

Super lush at atmospheric and always keeping things interesting. There's soft melancholy tunes and then tracks that start with deep guteral screams and I love it. Very happily surprised

I think this is the most energetic and fun performance from ice spice but the beat is garbage.

A really mixed bag. Some super fun and entrancing beats with fun bars and delivery on some tracks but others just feel very one note. My favorite tracks were similar in that bladee and his collaborators weren't afraid to change things up a little bit. This project is at its strongest when bladee is throwing bars out like "Drain gang, I feel like we the new One Direction." Overall I loved most of the instrumentals but the vocal mixing was distracting on some of those tracks that felt ... read more

I love a lot of this album and the stuff I don't love I like a lot. This isn't my first rodeo with MBIKMB but some tracks slipped by me on my first time through like happy news for sadness. On this run through the album, I loved this song and it almost gave off a kind of indie emo sound that I can't connect the dots to but I love it and it's one of my favorites now. Of course we have some tracks that we would come back to on Teens of Style like the drum, strangers, sunburned shirts, something ... read more

Not a particularly notable track for Lil Nas X and feels very stale. The weight of the track being propped up as a comeback makes it fall harder for me than it may have if it were any other album track. Nothing crazy just sort of inoffensive and boring.

Twin Fantasy FTF is one of if not my favorite album and it's taken me much too long to get back to review the MTM version and I'm glad I did. While I don't like it as much as FTF there are many things about it that I love and I am torn between the versions of these tracks. While the studio remaster of these tracks sound better for the most part, the charm of the lo fi recordings shines on tracks like My Boy, Stop Smoking, and especially High to Death for me personally. I also enjoy Will's ... read more

Much to the dismay of my friends, in the past I have not been a big fan of Sematary or the horrorcore, witch house, whatever you might call it style. But I kinda get it now. This song goes. I was excited to see this collab because I never drew a connection between Sematary and Chief Keef but I can't say it doesn't work. This song just emanates energy and is so in your face and I love that. Chief Keef's verse is unreal and some of the strongest I've seen from him recently. I'm not familiar with ... read more

Really mixed bag with not a lot of stuff I love. A lot of these tracks feel like they weren't fleshed out and there isn't much of an effort for bladee to fit into them. It isn't so much that they're bad but it's more that there's nothing that special about them. I was hoping the production style could offer a fun change up for bladee but that's not really what I got.

WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT 🔥😤🚨

To be real though I think Bob Dylan could sing anything and I would take it to heart on a spiritual level. The way he croons over all of these great instrumentals makes me feel like I'm going on a journey with one of those stick and sack combos while I sit comfortably at my computer desk. I love the imagery and feel of all of these tracks and I love Bob Dylan's little elf voice.

Returning my my mid-teenaged Beatles phase, I remember loving Rubber Soul and I was glad to come back and still enjoy it a lot. I'm Looking Through You stands as one of my favorite Beatles songs even now when I recognize some of its formulaic repetitive ebb and flow throughout the track. Despite it being a bit repetitive to me now, it's still one of my favorites standing almost fully on nostalgia and I will defend it to my grave.

I like this album as a point in the Beatles discography where ... read more

Obviously the production is great, the bars are great, the chemistry is unmatched, the personality is on full display. Sounds incredible why isn't my score higher? I don't know. I do but I don't. The chaos of some tracks works for me and some don't, that's about as far as it goes. When it works, there's nothing like it, when it doesn't, it's still pretty good, just not exactly for me. I can fully understand loving every single track on here, but for me there are a select few I come back to and ... read more

Really great production and a fun quick listen but it didn't feel like something I would come back to and it didn't stick. I plan on listening to more quadeca especially the I Didn't Mean to Haunt You project that I see a lot of love for because I think in a longer form project the production could build a better atmosphere for me to get sucked into.
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Shout out to megalomaniac btw i post a review and he likes it within like 15 seconds it's honestly shocking

75 >> 82

Since this album released I keep coming back to it simply because it has bangers, and I know bangers. O Rod was cooking. On my most recent return almost every track grew on me and even some of her slower ballads where I felt like her voice did most of the work and her personality took a back seat grew on me quite a bit. I think Rodrigo really carved out her own place in pop music this year and put out a great album that makes me forget about the garbage pop music released this ... read more

"Subpar songs, I don't make those" ... ironic

This sounds like the soundtrack to a movie about the life of the most self righteous, manipulative, scum of a person. Some of the most plastic, dime a dozen instrumentals when going for a straight rap thing, and then marvel movie trailer music, and then a 21 pilots rip off. An embarrassing backwards confused album. The track motto tells you off the bat that he couldn't care less about awards and fame or whatever only to become so ... read more

One of my favorite Midwest emo projects and every listen leaves me craving more of Saturdays at your place desperately. Every track has some catchy guitar line or hook that sticks in my head all day and I can't get enough of it. With some of my favorite emo bands putting out stuff that I wasn't in love with this year, it was great to find something new that I'm just as crazy about as I am about the old stuff I was used to.

future: 88
fetch: 84
tarot cards: 97
hospital bed: 93
its always cloudy ... read more

Edit 2/16/24: I love coming back to 333 because the vibe is so consistent throughout and it feels very cohesive and fun. While "100s" tends to break that immersion for me, it doesn't bring the whole project down as much as it feels like a detour into something unrelated, maybe a leftover from an earlier album, but I don't hate it that much. It's common that bladee's music needs a bit to grow on me and the same is true for 333, it's definitely among my favorite works from bladee and ... read more

Santa doesn't like gecs? I don't like Santa

Some ok lil singles from our pal Benjamin but I'm not in love with them right now. However, bladee's work tends to grow on me the longer I'm exposed to it so I would expect a reevaluation in the next weeks/months. Not to say I didn't like either of these but none of them lock me in like some of his other tracks. I can see Obsessed with Death getting stuck in my head a lot though so I'll keep my loyal followers posted.

Requiem: 72
Obsessed with Death: 86