In collaboration with fellow psychedelic artist Sore Eros, this feels like quite a Jim O'Rourke-infused Kurt Vile. That is essentially two of my favourite artists coming together, so as you could guess, I really love this. The meandering acoustic guitars, the quiet lo-fi drums, the subdued and eccentric vocals, and the quirky electronics (even some drone/electroacoustic elements) all come together to create something very beautiful, underrated and overlooked.

Favourite track: Calling Out ... read more

I feel like it shouldn't be legal for songs as pretty as Holding On, Nothing to Find, or Thinking of a Place to exist. What an underappreciated masterpiece this is. People who understand how amazing Philadelphia folk-rock artists like TWoD, Kurt Vile and Steve Gunn are some of my favourite people in music, if you love this shit too please talk to me

Favourite tracks: it's like picking favourite children jesus
Album cover: 8/10

This album literally stinks of shit, I can't listen to it without gagging

Again, just like Frailty, it does waaay too much for its own good. The songs seem to only follow the exact same progression, of "quiet indie slowcore beginning, then big noisy second half." It's just the same monotonous shit for an hour.

Also in a similar way to her previous album, there are genuinely some really good moments, but they are just SO BOGGED DOWN BY EVERYTHING ELSE, to the point where it's kinda frustrating. In other words, I can't rate it highly because of how shit the ... read more

It certainly has potential, but god, there's just way too much going on. It all bleeds and blends and blurs together, and just feels compeletely hazy and unclear. There are great musical moments few and far between, but I was just waiting for this to be over.

But hopefully the new one will be better!

Favourite tracks: goldfish, movies for guys, ★ kodak moment
Album cover: 5/10

A journey through the solar system, filled with twists & turns and emotional burns. Mars is terrifying, Venus is beautiful, Mercury is whimsical, Jupiter is joyful, Saturn is frail, Uranus is wonderful and Neptune is, well, mystical.

...I think I understand classical now! Feels good.

Favourite tracks: Mars, Venus, Saturn
Album cover: 7/10

How can only but a human man, create something of such divine beauty and majesty?

Mother nature smiles down upon you every day.
Love is life.
Perhaps Pharoah will help you fully realise such things.

Cover I made in an hour of 1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins. Not that significant really, just decided to put it out there lol

Listen: https://stygian-hollow.bandcamp.com/track/1979

Bleakness.
Ice.
Cold steel.
Humbuzz.
Depression.

Desolation.

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Isolation.

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Panic.

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Insanity.

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Apocalypse.

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Eradication, emptiness, loss of hope.

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..Finally, some peace and quiet.

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The conditions become unsurvivable, but you remain calm.

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Death...
...in a good ... read more

The likes of crazy bands such as Can and Ween come together to form one big weird tasty brown mushroom stew. I really don't see why people hate this, it's so damn creative and ahead of its time and sounds super amazing.

"Just because it's experimental doesn't mean it's good" but it is good! Smh

Favourite tracks: ★ Paper Hats, Makeshift Swahili, Hi Baku Shyo (fucking coolest outro ever)
Album cover: 8/10 (ooey gooey awesome)

The production sounds like autotuned shit through a strainer. The playing is about as tight as a horse's flatulating cheeks, sloppier than prison sludge, and as uncoordinated as an 18th-century explorer who got lost out in Nunavut. The drums sound like a frying pan being repeatedly bashed against the side of a metal trashcan. The lyrics and vocals sound like a clinically insane person escaped the asylum and came in to replace Hetfield himself, after he left due to him and the other band ... read more

@QDOERTY Reviewed Gorillaz.

A blunt and horrifying portrayal of deep, stabbing depression, and all of the processes from the first drop of self-doubt to the eventual accomplishment of overcoming such issues. It's a masterpiece through and through.

Also, those last twenty minutes or so... wow

Slauson comes out with a masterpiece more emotional, more accessible, and even better than his last. The hip-hop elements are almost completely gone, which leaves us with an interesting mix of neo-psychedelic sound collage. Some of the songs on here are absolutely beautiful, so I can't wait to hear more from this GOAT of modern abstract music. In 100 years

Favourite tracks: New Joy, ★ Half-Life, Voyager, Decades Castle Romeo, Us (Tower of Love)
Album cover: 8/10

Yes, I listened to the entire thing. It was fine. There were some great tracks, some terrible ones, some hilarious ones, but it was just waaay too long for a project that is mostly 7/10 songs. It's fun hearing some 2010s bro-country guy cover Wherever I May Roam, it's fun hearing some east coast hip hop group cover The Unforgiven, but I don't really wanna hear 10 different renditions of the same song in a row. Fucking hell why did I even do this

WHY DO YOU LOVE FIFE SO MUCH! WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR THE CENTRAL BELT!! YOU'RE NOT EVEN FROM THERE, YOU'RE FROM FUCKING PERTH AND KINROSS!!!!|!1!?!/!/1/!?!??!/1

Favourite tracks: best one is Vorpal Laserblaster of Pittenweem, the rest blur together too much for me to tell them apart
Album cover: 10000000000/10 glorious

Check the other album cover for this album, inside that shack is where this entire album was recorded. Lo-fi as hell, really nice and twangy Canadian country-folk. What a vibe it is, and its 27 minutes of length feels like the perfect runtime. Great project.

Favourite tracks: ★ Cedar Shakes, Each Good House

You keep on playin' that guitar, kitty... puts me in a trance.

Favourite tracks: Anchor Chain Blues, The Great Pacific Northwest, ★ Of Its Own Kind, The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville
Album cover: 10/10

No matter how simple, music is music. A man playing his guitar for forty minutes can be just as beautiful as any layered masterpiece. Glenn Jones is genuinely one of my favourite musicians, just for the feeling that he conveys with his impeccable acoustic playing. The melodies, the moods and the harmonies are all here, just all in their most stripped-back form. Sometimes, less can certainly be more.

Favourite tracks: ★ Flower Turned Inside Out, In Durance Vile, Portrait of Basho As a Young ... read more

Holy shit, this is one of my new favourite rap albums. What a lyrical mastermind Simbi is, and the beats are incredible too. It's an empowering and uplifting album for women, and especially black women, which is something that we still badly need in the modern world. Thank you, Simz! 🧡

Favourite tracks: Introvert, Woman, Fear No Man, How Did You Get Here
Album cover: 8/10