What if Jack Black had 0 charm, charisma or sense of humour and made a 55 minute Metalluca rip off. Like, I ain't gonna rate this till I'm done but god this is awful. Shit sounds so mechanical at times with how it's placed. Vocals sometimes sound inorganic like they've been clipped poorly into place. Guitars sound unoriginal and like they were just ripped from somewhere else.

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We Love You is legitimately the worst song I've heard all year. Worse than that Falling in Reverse song, ... read more

IDK, I wanted to like this more. When DZ are at their best they're an extremely cathartic blend of punk, hard rock and metal, but this really doesn't feel like their best. When the intro track is the best song something's gone horribly wrong somewhere.

Also I noticed that the usual distorted double layer vocals they usually do felt really off at times on this record, especially on tracks like Hope for the Best and Love & Destruction.

IDK the magic's worn off. After loving the warm, summery vibes offered up on her debut Collapsed in Sunbeams, even if it wasn't the most groundbreaking bedroom pop ever, it felt so good to get lost in. That just doesn't feel like it's here. I don't want her to just recycle the same sounds over and over, but I feel like her attempts at experiments into glitchier or rockier sounds.

The short intro track seems to hint at this album tackling themes of abuse, innocence and healing, but it feels ... read more

I come into this as someone who tends to have a hard time with Black Metal and more enjoys genre-fusions with this, my first listen to this felt ethereal. God damn, I could feel genuine emotion and even sometimes horror in the instrumental passages at times, maybe could have turned up the creepier parts of the atmosphere in later stages cause this was so close to unsettling in a good way. I'm glad I picked Liturgy's backcatalogue back up after how disappointing Ark Work was.

Short enough that it doesn't overstay it's welcome while also having enough diversity in the music to never get old. Sick ass metalcore.

Better than I was expecting tbh. Feels like a mix between Sam Fender and Gang of Youths' kind of theatrical rock sound, but it def needs a bit more grandeur or story to really get me to sink my teeth into it.

It ain't bad, it's noisy and fun, but how do you make 4 songs where I'm double checking whether my Spotify has glitched and played back the same song every damn song?

It's good folk rock, not entirely my thing but it's definitely good. Usually I knock things for just sounding like The Beatles but honestly this actually feels like it's solid on its own, more using really crunchy mixes to give it a nostalgic feeling that reminds me of them, rather than being jangly britpop that sounds like the listened to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds one too many times before writing their album.

23/05/2023
Me and @stardustra came across Love Outside Andromeda while looking at songs for Triple J's Hottest 100 Like a Versions, and she saw their cover of Andy Warhol by David Bowie in the list. That send us down a rabbit hole of this band and god damn did their debut album not disappoint after that cover.

With some crazy good post-rock, Love Outside Andromeda only have two studio albums to their name due to the producer they hired for their second album fucking them over and leaving them ... read more

Sharp Aussie slacker punk that takes aim at some of the more foundational parts of racism in Australia, through the education system and media and other institutions refusing to engage with Australian history, giving reactionaries spots on breakfast tv and the habit of calling anyone, especially First Nations people, who start conversations about this leftist extremists.

A beautiful mix of metal and drum and bass. I've heard a few attempts at mixing metal and electronica lately, namely from Northlane and PhaseOne here in Australia, but my god, this is one of the best mixtures of electronic metalcore I've heard in ages. One of the biggest issues I usually find in the mix is that there's very little light and shade across a whoile album, but this self-titled fromjoy project really understands what it's doing, and it's never afraid of going full metalcore or full ... read more

I've been a huge Alex Lahey fan for ages, with a lot of singles off Love You Like a Brother ans Best of Luck Club still hitting for me to this day. However, I was mostly scared about how this record would turn out from the first two singles.

Congratulations was alright, had a lot of snark to it but it wasn't really a strong single IMO. It definitely fits well as a rocky ending of a relationship and that lingering resentment as your own life falls apart.

Good Time meanwhile felt like Alex ... read more

I was hoping for more mainly out of Amine. Might give it another listen but it's really just not hitting for me it almost feels too by the books. Kaytranada's production is a highlight though and I am definitely willing to go back just for that.

This came out before a lot of controversy about AI really broke into a wider conversation, and I feel like it actually kinda works in this album's context, so I'm not just going to shit on it for that. I feel like there's this feeling that things aren't quite right, like the systems themselves are glitching out, so the batshit weird lyrics don't bother me most of the time.

What I was really hoping for though was more of the first two songs that really felt robotic in the instrumentaks as well, ... read more

MUUUUM COME PICK ME UP THE MILQUETOAST WHITE BOYS ARE APPROPRIATING CITYPOP AND FUNK

My god is the headvoice on this album obnoxious and overdone. It's supposed to be used for emphasis not as the key feature of your songs. And why the fuck do so many songs use funk instrumentals over these personalitiless vocals.

Only song on here I actually liked was Celebrate, which while it's nothing spectacular it kind of is the only song where the instrumentals aren't clashing with the vocals and are ... read more

Honestly, Light Me Up is some of the biggest wasted potential I've seen in a hot minute. The Lazulight follow up to THE song of NijiEN, Diamond City Lights. All of Elira, Pomu and Finana have shown huge growth in their vocal abilities in their various covers since then, I can even hear how much Finana's improved on this track, but my god does none of it come to fruition on this track.

The vocals are the biggest issue, specifically on the mixing and the solo vocals from each of the three ... read more

I had hope for this project, I really did. Hell Down Here and Show Me Your God, despite having some issues were some of the best singles they'd dropped in nearly a decade. Those tracks have some strangely paced instrumental breaks and bloody strained screams that kill some of the ferocity, but my god does the album lose even that after the third or fouth track.

After some point all the ferocity in the instrumentals dies after track 4 I think, it just all blends together. It's just exhausting ... read more

IDK, I started off this album thinking "At least Conway asleep at the wheel still clears a lot of rappers" but as it went on, the braggadoccio got exhausting and there were surprisingly less and less memorable aspects of the record. Brooklyn Chop House and Tween Cross Tween were definitely late album highlights with some good bars, but honestly, this feels like a huge step down. Man's decided to rest on his laurels hard on this album...

Is it a hot take to say Bae out-Ados Ado on this song? Vocals feel rawer but also more controlled, the instrumental feels just as chaotic as the vocals compared to almost all of Kyougen. Blows her previous single out of the water she matches her new producer way more than she does Camellia.

I really wanted to like this, I discovered yakzyo 3 years ago when they were played for an Unearthed High competition Triple J played. They had a really silly, non-serious brand of hyperpop which I messed with that blended chiptune elements as well. I enjoyed their EP 14s in 2021 which appears to no longer be on streaming anymore.

Unfortunately, this EP feels really bland and poorly produced. Firstly, I know the vocals aren't the most important element of hyperpop, but my god is the vocal ... read more