Honestly the first shteppi/ISSBROKIE related project I liked. Definitely much better and more mature than her previous works, and that maturity (or lack thereof) is the thing holding her back. This is a step in the right direction.

Promise me you won't gun the rating down

Genuinely impeccable production linked with fun lyricism and vocal delivery.

Peggy fans now learn Peggy never had anything useful to say, and I guess they're mad about it. To be honest, I was never one to really care about lyrics; I mostly focus on production. So really, this album isn't that bad in my perception. In fact, I think it's actually quite good. But who knows? Clearly not Peggy fans and clearly not me.

I'd rather save my ears than be culturally relevant.

The thing about this song is that I genuinely enjoyed it, but I would have enjoyed it more without the autotune IN THE LAST SECTION IN PARTICULAR. Otherwise, I didn't think it was too bad.

"Funeral" remains Arcade Fire's more consistent listen, but "Neon Bible" 's highs are miles higher. This album mixes the strings influence of "Funeral" with a more synth-y sound in a harrowingly ethereal way. This album, in my mind, sounds like a sea of ink, sloshing back and forth, dark as the timeless deity's cloak. I believe this album is almost that deity, existing as long as we humans do.

Weird, eccentric, and wild.
Honestly, I had no idea what I was getting into with this album. I had no idea who The Chemical Brothers were, and nor did I know about AURORA past the one TikTok audio that was trending. Nevertheless, I was hopeful, mostly on the basis of acclaim for them both. I wasn't let down, very thankfully.

The most glaring quality was AURORA's unique and absolutely stunning vocals. A modern Bjork, perhaps, and I don't throw that title around lightly. On ... read more

In my mind, the only way to accurately pin my feelings for a remix is to compare it to the original. This mental process operates as such: 1) Find the original rating of the song. 2) Find positives and negatives that cause that to be the score. 3) Find positives and negatives for a remix of the song. 4) Make a comparison of the positives and negatives. For a subject as interesting as a remix, this process helps illustrate to myself and others how I think about music.

1) Sidney Gish's ... read more

Absolutely deserved

Please dear lord let this not be the only good song on the album

I dont know if this is a oneoff single or for a new album, but either way it's a genuinely great song with a very important message. If it is part of an album, I am ready to enjoy the album wholeheartedly.

Time Heals Everything 3:18

I try not to listen to music I dislike, and truthfully, this is partially the case. I say partially because I tuned out the lyrics at a certain point. Just stopped processing the words. In that regard, this album is incredible. But counting lyrics, which is what I should do because it is part of the album, I feel my opinion worsens by a solid margin.
Honestly, Vylet has made better produced albums, it's made better vocally performed albums, it's made better albums in every ... read more

A request from a dear friend of mine for such a long time, and I felt the urge to honor it recently. Added next to Hell for a Basement by Drug Bug and Kenji by Sun Kil Moon, I looked like a right bedrotter.
Overall, this album shines when it doesn't. The key thing I keep in mind when I listen to slowcore is that it's meant to be slow, so the bright moments are few and far between. My understanding of the genre is built on the idea that the drawn out is the most important.
Songs ... read more

Sometimes a risk is all you can make, and sometimes it's absolutely worth it.

In the wake of a world where buying isn't owning and streaming services demand so much of artists with little regard for them or the consumer, people like Tatsuro Yamashita shine through. The modern landscape of the musical industry demands constant pace and uploads from the artists and sells the customer's attention as well as the lack of it. This is a vicious cycle, by the definition that it feeds on ... read more

Amplified the movie to the furthest of heights. Movie's a 10, soundtrack as well.

I genuinely cannot believe I hit the skip button 33 times when only one song is longer than three minutes, and on an album with two artists I love. I'm not going to rate this because I don't think I experienced enough of it, but I don't think I will actually listen to this project. What I love about Earl and MIKE is nonexistent here, and unfortunately that hurt my image of them.
Also Trap happens to be my least favorite rap genre, so that's probably also a reason I ... read more

This feature is killing me 😭

Friend’s house is a label that I have been keeping an eye on for a long time. I am furry adjacent and a gay teenager, so it makes sense that this might be a niche of mine. I also tend to decently like 5th Wave Emo, with some of my favorite songs of all time coming out of the genre (Chopland Sedans, White Ceiling, and wetdream to name a few).

When I see the album cover for Picture Day, I don’t expect it to blow me out of the water; I don’t expect to ascend, but I did, and ... read more