So, I didn't feel entirely comfortable reviewing this song until it dropped on Streaming a few days ago specifically because the music video attached was extremely jarring and the pacing between the two just felt really awkward and distracting. I couldn't seperate the two so it wouldn't be a fair evaluation of the song.

Compared to the song for Symphoria, the mixing is clearly improved. Everything actually feels like I can hear it. I know Serafi is a good singer, I have literally edited Shorts ... read more

While for the most part this is a stellar psychadelic jazz album, I can't help but feel like sometimes songs can end up feeling repetitive due to the lack of solos or progression changes for long stretches of time. The basic core of a lot of these songs are strong, the single Yourself being a major example of this trend, where at some point, it feels like it just keeps going ad-nausiem. The opener, Forever felt like it ended about a minute past where it should have.

However, this album heavily ... read more

This self-titled EP from skacore supergroup Mutiny takes a bit to get your head around. I think that there's a lot of potential here, but the blending of ska and metalcore feels a bit too jarring at times. Take the opening track of the EP and only single, This Is A Eulogy. The patterns are distinctly ska while the delivery is distinctly metal and the clash is interesting, but the two styles feels like they're mixing wrong. The emphasis on the off beats creates this really strange feeling that ... read more

No. I'm sorry, no. What is this. This is the most uninspired corporate garbage I've heard in years. Welcome to the Madhouse has more redeemable elements than this, at least that album was fun to laugh at. This is just devoid of creativity or passion. I almost started to miss the bad ripoffs of Idol by Yoasobi, at least they gave me moments where I thought "wow this is so bad lmao" any time a completely unnecessary beat switch came in for 15 seconds to break up the monotony.
There is a ... read more

NGL, my first exposure to this song was like "okay I don't care for it but is it really a worst songs of the week?". And then I heard it again on Triple J.
Then again
Then I realised I'm going to be hearing this generic ass Flume track he sneezed out with Kučka that didn't make the Palaces album and he couldn't be assed to put on either of his albums of old unfinished material so he had Kučka release it as a single instead of his name being the first one on the song. It's just ear ... read more

It's leagues better than Viper Room to say the least. I'm still not enamoured with Thorny but it's a strong track.

The only good songs on here are the title track and Follow Me, and honestly I think I enjoy Follow Me more for the cheesiness of it than as an actual tune.
Most of these tracks feel like We Have The Prodigy At Home, Hey Boy Hey Girl seems like it's gonna pick things up a little but then Say Woah is absolute garbage, but MY FUCKING GOD, Higher Rush, Thinkin About and Heart On Fire are some of the worst fucking songs I've ever heard. The sheer whiplash I got going from the energy and careful ... read more

Tasmanian based folk singer Claire Anne Taylor isn't someone I knew of before seeing the album launch gig for this on Insta from one of my favourite local Melbourne venues but god damn does this album just hit. Her 3rd album overall, this folky and bluesy record has some amazing, winding numbers about feelings of sadness and depression and just the occasional difficulty of just living, with songs like opening Swallowing Stones, Lay You Down in the Cold Hard Ground and the closer The River Song. ... read more

This album feels like what would happen if modern Alex Turner stopped saying the word Simulation fucking ever, recorded with Two Door Cinema club but the trade off is that the bass lines do not go hard at all which is the only good part of modern Arctic Monkeys.
It's an alright dance pop album, reminds me a little of Nithing But Theives as well but really nothing that I'd care to go back to. Speak of the Devil and Satanic Oanic def stood out tho.

With strong overtones of Jessie Ware Synthpop, the instrumentation of the best of Carly Rae Jepsen's catalogue, a bit of dark CHVRCHES energy and a spinkle of Yeule's more abrasive edges and transhumanism showing up in a few places on this record, this feels like an extremely familiar album while still managing to feel like a wholly unique work of its own. Definitely gonna be in my rotation a lot this year and I can absolutely see the score increasing with more revisits.

For the most part it's pretty pleasant surf pop but not much more than that. A lot of the highlights on this thing like No Bad Days, Head Noise and Daisy's Drop come in the first half of the album where they have the feel of a lighter version of Skeggs, but from Zombie onwards it's a lot brasher, which feels like it works less often than it doesn't.
Penultimate track If You Get That in particular is a standout for how bad and awkward it is, feeling like it's tryna be like Catch My Disease by ... read more

This new Middle Kids album has me in two minds. It feels like their most emotionally poignant record so far, with a lot of the tracks on here really feeling like the band processing feelings of insecurity and not being able to cope with the modern world. Terrible News hits lyrically as a track about constantly feeling surrounded by negativity and not knowing how to escape from the people feeding into your self-worth issues. Dramamine and Bend feel like a duology of singles about trying to act ... read more

My first thought is god this thing needs trimming down. It loses so much steam the longer it goes on and it doesn't have a strong narrative like Let's Start Here by Lil Yacthy to keep itself focused.
That aside though, Yeat is someone who I've never really listened to before now because I've never really listened to Rage stuff, but I'd always heard he was one of the best in the lane. Then I hear he's done some Travis Scott Astroworld type shit on the new album. And honestly, outside of the ... read more

Lil Durk absolutely outclasses Travis Scott and Young Thug by a fucking mile on this thing.

21 Savage isn't really someone who has been on my radar that much. I often struggle to get into mainstream American rappers because I often find them either underwhelming or to have severely bloated records, so it took me a while to get around to listening to this record, especially with how already weak the Friday this dropped was overall. However, redrum getting on high rotation and charting in ... read more

Unironically the best thing I've heard from Jay Eazy. The biggest thing I would usually find with his stuff is that he tends to lose the energy once he's left that TikTok advertised chorus but this actually keeps up that energy in a way I wasn't expecting it to.

I really don't care. I remember when IDMTHY came out and a subset of people claimed it was chasing after a coveted yellow flannel from Fantano but that's honestly what Scrapyard is to me, a lot of really pretty production masking the fact that these songs really lack any sort of meat to them. Quadeca spends a lot of time trying to stick rap flows to indietronica production in the first half of this thing that just fails to actually elevate any of it. His vocal delivery on here is rather ... read more

The breakup album of queer midwest emo band out of Eora/Sydney, Sports Bra wrote this album with Jonathan Tooke from Cry Club producing back in 2021 but didn't get it mastered until recently and wasn't released until 2024. If you're into Australian bands like The Smith Street Band or Final Girls, this will absolutely be up your alley. With songs like Reason to Feel about not feeling comfortable in your own body or closer Faggot Music about not feeling safe as a queer person going out at night ... read more

Free Palestine

It's an absolutely beautiful, haunting piece of ambient pop but I can't help but feel like it ends up dragging a little right near the end. Part of me was honestly expecting her to intentionally leave the ending chord unresolved for the shear haunting impact it would have had as well which I think would have really elevated this even more.

I don't know why the hell Sofa King is on the Spotify release given that was on their EP from last year but whatever.
So, Royel Otis have had some level of success in Australia since they released the songs Bull Breed and Oysters in my Pocket, however they've only grown exponentially since then, receiving their first entry in the Hottest 100 with Sofa King and not only cracking the Aria charts but gaining international attention with their cover of Murder on the Dancefloor earlier this ... read more

It's just a pleasant experience, sets out exactly what it needs to do and succeeds and just being a very comfy, chill time. Would work perfectly for BGM or something.