I think this album def bloats towards the end but I think it boy was wrong. He's not the Gen Z Eminem. He's the Gen Z Pitbull. And when he makes a song that bangs it bangs no matter how cringy it is.
Where we have so many white boys like Central Cee who rap about having sex like they hate women, be a bbno$ who raps about fucking because he fucking loves women.

Look, I'm historically not a shoegaze enjoyer so I think that has heavily coloured my opinion of this record. This is a really solid record, it sound good, it's mostly well produced save a few tracks near the beginning where the vocals are sitting a little too far back in the mix, but it just doesn't engage for me. This band has been getting a bunch of buzz in the local Australian indie scene so I was rather interested in hearing it and I have passively enjoyed the single ... read more

There's good to this album don't get me wrong but The Rions just aren't really pushing the envelope given how they seem to be at the forefront of new Australian indie rock. Most of the songs don't have anything wrong to them other than maybe the lyrics on Oh How Hard It Is To Be 20 which I might get to.
There are some really good moments on this thing, tracks like Welcome to the Conversation and Scumbag especially has a really strong rhythm section, and the Vampire Weekend ... read more

This album is objectively a better record than Tortured Poets Department and yet I can't help but feel like this entire album feels like someone imitating a Taylor Swift album. There's something missing from the atmosphere of this album that persists through even the worst of Taylor's output, even TTPD, that this album feels like it doesn't have. This album feels utterly unremarkable, painfully safe and bland. When it does feel like it's trying something it feels like ... read more

NGL, I didn't have the highest expectations going into this from the singles. I think Disco Cowgirl was a rather abrasive first introduction to this record, with Big Ol' Hammer feeling like it was leaning really hard into that really wack part of their catalogue in GAY4ME. But I think In Another Life gave me a bit more of hope for this as the last single.

While I don't think this is G's best work, I think Dream Ride came out way better than I was expecting, showing out to ... read more

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with this record, but I feel like Ocean Alley just aren't quite shooting as hard as they could be at times. I felt like going into this record I was worried about being really bored because the singles were honestly quite forgettable, but deep cuts like Sweet Boy and Drenched felt like Ocean Alley trying something a bit new in sound and pushing themselves. Left of the Dealer was probably the strongest single but I also felt that was very much ... read more

This is an extremey solid record even iv a lot of tge production feels like a strange amalgamation of a lot of different artists. But jesus fucking christ does this man have an unhealthy view of the world. There is at least one moment on each song that feels like I'm reading an incel post on 4chan in a way that I hope no women ever go near him. This album has a really sweet front that leaves an overall bitter aftertaste that taints the whole dish.

This lower rating is due to a few songs where the mixing is just, objectively shit ass dookie. Cool Math Games is a really obvious example where it feels like everything has been thrown together at the same volume and not really mixed to let anything stand out. A few other tracks have this issue, especially tracks that weren't singles like the title track and Harold.

What this does is create this feeling where you'll have fucking peak songs like Station Rat right between songs that ... read more

TRACY GRIMSHAW?

UPDATE: IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT LEROY, THE FUCKER WHO HAS HIS HAIR COVERED ALL THE TIME, IS A FUCKING PEDOPHILE, AND I HAVE ACTUALLY CHECKED WITH MATES IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY THIS IS NOT JUST A RUMOUR AND OURNESS BURIED THAT SHIT?
FUCK ROYEL OTIS. You don't even get a 3/10 anymore for this trash.

So Aussies, we all agree car is making the top 2 of the Hottest 100 this year right? With how much Spacey Jane clogs up our top 10 every yearit's perfect for it.

After the sudden ... read more

Sing Good being the lowest rated track, common AOTY L

The more I listen to this album the less I feel like it succeeds at its mission statement of just being an album to dance to. I think Tyler's laid back affectations and his tendancy towards subtler instrumentation leads the album to feel stilted.
Like, I would much rather mosh to Dogtooth off CMIYGL Estate Sale. Or a good chunk of Outkast's catalogue. It's nit a horrible record or anything, it's solid but unremarkable and gets less enjoyable when you attempt to meet it at ... read more

Man, this album is so overproduced and Suffa and Pressure are so mid-40s. I think their songs with Nyassa are the standouts of the album and the song This Year could be really good without the sheer amount of stuff happening in the instrumental. However so, so much of the rest has shitty choruses, cringy bars and two blokes trying to recapture former glory. They tackle a lot of social issues with the nuance of a Macklemore song (actually that's an insult to Hind's Hall, but I ... read more

I love this album, it's a beautiful album, but why is it that I always struggle to connect with Quadeca's music.

The album is like, a 10/10 though from I DREAM ABOUT SINKING onwards.

This album really makes you feel like it could smell like Gwenyth Paltrow's vagina on special limited edition vinyls

To be quite honest, I've just kind of held off from engaging with Sleep Token's music for ages
I've avoided the discourse and the whole joke about Fantano being their biggest hater, and their surprise entry into the Hottest 100 in 2023 with The Summoning was just kind of a muted "oh that's aight" before not thinking about them much again.

Then they just felt like they became too big to ignore. To the point they managed to knock an easy number 1 ARIA chart ... read more

Please someone help me understand Spacey Jane's hype. They've been the biggest band in Australia since 2019 and at this point their music sounds like amorphous noise to me. I can tell there's emotion in here, it's definitely trying to feel vulnerable, they always had, but I feel like I've had an issue since Booster Seat that trying to unpack what they're trying to say either ends up being kind of uninteresting or is tied in too many knots of allusion that it feels ... read more

I hope the American empire one day falls and trans people will one day be safe to be themselves without fear of persecution or having their visas rejected by a fascistic government.

That being said, while this is a strong record at times, being especially emotionally potent when Bells duets his pre-transition voice, I think there are a lot of times where it can feel a little too undercooked. A bit more interplay between his two vocal parts on some tracks or just something else to add a little ... read more

The debut EP from Naarm/Melbourne post-punk/Naarmcore outfit Sleepazoid is a blisteringly exhilarating run of 5 tracks. Alice is the clear standout off the EP just having these insanely crunchy guitar chunks, lyrics that feel playful without feeling childish (which can sometimes feel like a common issue with the Aussie indie rock scene), a few lesbian undertones, a weird bridge that shifts entirely in tone, and... puppygirl kink? I think?
But that isn't to say the rest of the EP ... read more

Oh. My. God.
The mixing on this album is just... what? Ball Park Music are one of the biggest bands in the Australian indie scene. This album managed to break another dry streak of Aussies in the ARIA charts.
WHY DO HALF THE SONGS HAVE COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS ON THE GUITARS BLARING IN MY RIGHT EAR SPECIFICALLY? THERE'S ALSO JUST A 10 SECOND GAP IN SOUND BETWEEN NORK AND BELLS IN BLOOM INTERRUPTED BY A RANDOM NOISE THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN ACCIDENT IN THE STUDIO THEY FORGOT TO CUT OUT??? AM I ... read more