An amazing instrumental synth funk and plunderphonics record that feels like it's calling back to the debut Avalanches record Since I Left You while still being its own thing. Its biggest flaw is probably that it starts to run into a bit of repetition in the back end due to being a fully instrumental plunderphonic record unlike said Avalanches record and thus doesn't have vocal hooks to set some tracks apart when the soundscapes begin to run out of ideas.

There's something about the mixing on this thing that feel worse than her projects in the past. For the most part this sees Nihmune return to the more serious side of her music, going into more and more of an indie rock/midwest-emo sound as the record goes on, despite the more uptempo stuff it opens with.
Numi's vocals feel drowned on half this record though, especially on tracks like Go Yet Baby, where the guitar is weirdly washed out. However on tracks like Manic where things really all come ... read more

Kobaryo's a great speedcore producer and it took till Fluffy Flash to remember where I'd heard his style before, but it can def get a bit tiring at times. Overall strong album though and enjoyed the variety that came along with it.

I've never heard an album that sounds more like it's haunted than this album by the now known Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter. I feel like I need to just sit in a dark room for a relisten to this thing. The way that this album is produced to just sound like it's something you found in a creepy, dark warehouse or a haunted house and you're shouldn't have listened to it and you've made a huge mistake listening to it. Something is coming for you and there's no fighting it. It's a great listen and ... read more

I enjoyed this a lot. I feel like it was helped that I listwned while just kind of drifting in and out of awareness but it just made all the small, disperate elements of this thing really fuse together into something just raw and emotional. The use of different panning to emphasise different parts of their vocal self-hamonies was especially something that grew on me, while there's just this beautiful element the DIY nature of this thing gives emotionally. It does feel like it drags in a few ... read more

IDK it started off strong but I felt like I was getting diminishing returns as this went on. A fun electro-industrial record but yeah, runs out of ideas a bit.

Given Wallsocket is handly in my top 5 albums of 2023, I wanted to return to this album, especially after one of my friends having some mixed opinions on this record who also loves Wallsocket a lot.

Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat as them. This record, while it's got the same baseline qualities as Wallsocket, just lacks the same creativity in the execution, production and writing of Wallsocket. This feels like it's rehashing a lot of the same internety aesthetics I've heard way too many ... read more

Hands Like Houses is an Australian band who I've never really got into that much. They always seem on the periphery of heavier stadium rock in Australia but never really grabbed my attention. This being the band's first song since the sudden and unexplained departure of their frontman though, there are some massive shoes to fill... and unfortunately this song ends up being a long winded, P!atD styled metalcore track which definitely feels like it was designed for a stadium but lacks any ... read more

THEY SAMPLED THAT FUCKIN CRINGE BILLIE EILISH RIPOFF TIKTOKER AND HER THING ABOUT NEVER SELLING OUT I'M CRYING

While it can feel a little derivative at times, this project spans electronica, hyperpop and even pop punk in some amazing and outlandish at times ways. Might come back to it again in the future but it really feels like it's own thing more and more as it goes on.

Look, releasing a dance punk album in the same year as Model/Actriz's Ceramic Co-I mean Dogsbody or Genesis Owusu's Struggler was going to be hard for anyone but my god, the difference between those albums and this album is just night and day.

While there's some good stuff going on here, it feels like Screensaver paint their sound and writing into a corner within a few songs. There's this washed out effect that I think they're doing to try and make it sound like older glam rock stuff but ... read more

MIKA's first proper LP which is primarily in French (He has a soundtrack to a French movie credited to his name that isn't even in French) is an absolute snorefest. The entire runtime is just the same overly sweet pop numbers that harken back to Origin of Love's sound but without any sort of spice to break up the sound, leading to an extremely boring, one note record. There is some slightly fun bilingual wordplay but other than that, c'est tres, tres ennuyuex...

I've had a little bit of exposure to Adam Newling before this short record, him being one of the members of Ruby Fields' band and enjoying his breakout single Sweetness at the end of 2021. I wasn't even aware he'd dropped an album last year too but he started getting rotation again at the end of 2022 with Barmy which ended up being a single for this record.
What really caught my attention in a bad way though was another single that ended up being on here, Difference of Opinion, which was ... read more

So I ended up listening to this after hearing Dying Star on high rotation thinking maybe it wasn't as bad as I was hearing everywhere. That song felt like this really strong, emotional left-field anthemic ballad that just builds and builds until it crashes into this beautiful sense of euphoria that nothing else on this album quite matches. I keep being pulled on this battle between stuff that reminds me of 100 Gecs, WWAFA era Billie Eilish and Charli era Charli XCX, but none of the sounds quite ... read more

Sick psych jazz EP from a local Melbourne Smash player that's really easy to just zone out and get lost in. I think the closing track is a bit of a downgrade compared to the other three tracks but god it's a jam.

Honestly, I just ain't feeling it. All the best moments on this feel like stuff Thelma Plum has done better vocally and lyrically on her recent work and the rest is kind of forgettable.

Thank you @jurkperson for the correction that Amariah Cook is the frontwoman not Kira Niel. Should have done more research my bad.

I hope I'm not being overdramatic when I say Future Static feel like the next evolution in Australian metalcore taking inspiratiin from some of our current greats like Stand Atlantic and Polaris. Effortlessly blending pop punk tones and surprisingly lighter vocals from frontwoman Amariah Cook, none of it takes away from how heavy this record gets. Flawlessly ... read more

With influences seemingly ranging from Meg Mac, Taylor Swift and maybe even a bit of Missy Higgins at times, Molly Millington feels like her own distinct voice in a rather saturated indie pop scene on the Australian circuit. Breaking out with her travk October back in 2021, she showcases a lot of diversity on this EP rather than just limiting herself to just that one sound from her furst big song. This EP comes with evocative tracks like 380, fun pop cuts like single Foreign Accent and more ... read more

This starts so strong then just tries to do the exact same thing the next 5 songs. It's just boring man. I was hoping for some sexy dance pop but I genuinely stopped caring after 2 songs. There was one point where I genuinely thought my Spotify glitched and replayed a song because the instrumental and delivery were near identical.

I want to dive deeper into this record at some point more but Nyoongar/Perth artist Carla Geneve's second record pulls from a place of feeling like you're not quite able to relate to your life anymore, feeling apathy towards your own emotions and just being completely matter of fact about the fact you aren't okay. However I feel like there's always something just, clunky with the execution which can bring tracks down, such as the clunky hokey pokey lyrics after talking about having an eating ... read more