Song was written during the peak of the pandemic when Scott Morrison was repeatedly dodging any kind of responsibility as Prime Minister during the bushfires that ravaged Australia (going overseas) and his god awful rhetoric and then being absolutely useless during lockdowns as well while we were looking to our State MPs instead.
The Pop Rap is a little better on this track though and the satire is a bit more striking than on the track Life Is Incredible.

This is pretty good satire about middle-income suburban white Australians taking aim at people who sit there with their head in the sand to the struggles of those worse off with them, especially First Nations Australians. Despite that it almost leans a bit TOO into the saccharine pop-rap vibes it's parodying of white rappers and despite it being fully intentional, it just sounds a little too lifeless at times.

Damn this is the most generic thing I've heard NewJeans' name attached to. Good on them getting that League bag but this has none of the personality the group has.

I remember listening to this album last year and the 34 minute runtime felt like 2 fucking hours. If the joke is bad music, it's not funny.

Reminding me if Remi Wolf suddenly started listening to nothing but Kate Bush songs for a month and releasing an EP, Hemlocke Springs is one of the most ecclectic artists to break out into a semi-mainstream position, combining so many disparate elements across every song that she drops, the only certainty you have going into a Hemlocke Springs song is you'll get something that sounds a little off centre while walking a very fine line where if any of the elements weren't executed the way they ... read more

The pride of Tasmania, Luca Brasi are an act that I've never been able to get around. Something about their music just lacks presence, like they don't wanna push boundaries and stay nestled within comfortable indie rock, but that kind of leaves them with their distinctive quality being a kind of toothless sound.
The start of the record I thought showed a bit of renewed vigour with a few signs of their sound getting a bit thrashier, possibly to step into the hole that Violent Soho left in the ... read more

Music for the girls who want to top

I just think I'm not getting it tbh...

Chainsaw man pacing the album.

TW // This album has heavy allusions to suicide, extreme stalkers and transphobia/the effects of transphobic abuse on a person in its contents. As this is a concept album, this review will be disussing those parts narratively of the record, so don't read if that may be triggering at this time.

Underscores is an act who I was only recently made aware of through their track Old Money Bitch getting a spin on Triple J's new music introduced simply as a hyperpop act ... read more

Overall, this album is solid J-Rock. Don't let my criticisms for a few songs here get in the way of that. Towa's voice is strong enough to carry across a lot of the tracks and the instrumentals all around are solid, albeit with some strange instrumental choices like the sax on the opener or the sfx that you hear when samurai are mentioned for half a second in any piece of media on the second. But I think where this album falls apart is when she ventures outside of her lanes.

Anemone is less of ... read more

So I wanna get out of the way first that I think there is a lot of good on this record. The instrumentals for the most part are absolute thumpers and for everything I have to say about Kylie's vocals later, when they hit they absolutely hit. Tracks like One More Time or Green Light where Kylie just floats over the top of the instrumentals just soar. I think my gripes come from a bit of overthinking and nitpicking.

However I can't help but feel like there is this underlying inautheticity to ... read more

Holy fuck

This debut album by Kitty Rae feels like a mix between Halsey's recent output mixed with a bit of the theatrics of early P!atD tracks like Ballad of Mona Lisa, which track Masquerade of Pretty People especially feels like it borrows heavy inspiration from. The biggest issue I feel is the production balance which feels like it leans way too much into excess at times in a way that can detract from the song more than it adds. There is also honestly a huge lull in quality after track 4 towards the ... read more

So a bit of history for this before I get into this review. Mallrat was basically the Australian indie pop darling of Australia in the late 2010s, with her debut in the Hottest 100 in 2017 with Better at number 46 being her lowest of her highest placing songs in the countdown, Groceries in 2018 at number 7 and Charlie in 2019 at number 3, beating out the force that was Tones and I's Dance Monkey in the same year that came in at number 5.
And then the 2020s hit. Rockstar marked a shift in to a ... read more

See, the song is fine, it's not her best work, and if it ended at the 2 minute 20 mark it would be maybe a 6/10 track, but then it just has this really terrible attempt at this dreamy indie pop mixed with a sample of a rapper for the next 40 seconds that feels like it's just filling time and drags out the song painfully

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I feel like the best way to describe K.Flay's work is untamed noise. It causes her music to be just kinda strange. Sometimes it's channeled into something really well crafted like on the opener Are You Serious? where the way the instrumentation builds up feels like you're getting a panic attack from claustrophobia setting in harder and harder, while other times the heaviness and loudness feels like a total incoherent mess like on the single Raw Raw or Irish Goodbye featuring Vic Fuentes. The ... read more

Stages of listening to the new Jane Remover song:
1. God, this is mixed like shit WTF she doin.
2. Wait the chorus hits tho
3. *starts fucking crying*
4. ???
5. That was the best thing I heard all year. 7/10.

It's a really solid record of hyperpop, electropop, drum and bass and electro-house featuring a collection of indie Australian acts that doesn't really reinvent the wheel or anything but is a fun listen all the while. Notably Running Out Of Time with flowerkid and St. South being a pureply DnB track and Exist with Jamaica Moana being a much darker house cut than the rest of the album are two tracks that stand out sound wise from the rest of the record, even if the former doesn't really grab me ... read more