Jesus at the Gay Bar, released on Good Friday like the cheeky boys Cub Sport are, sees Cub Sport transition further into a clubbier electonic sound, with elements of drum and bas permeating a lot of the album. In the lead up to this record, Cub Sport said they wanted to focus much more of songs focused on queer joy cause they felt like they'd reached a point in their lives where they'd written enough about their pain over the course of their career they wanted to focus on a more positive ... read more

Nakhane is a musician I only heard about recently and is someone I've very much interested in listening to. They are a non-binary art-pop musician from South Africa who recently moving to London. First randomly stumbled across their music in a list of up and coming queer artists and was super interested to check out more after chucking their album You Will Not Die a listen.

I feel like this album starts off a little hit or miss, I don't remember the 3rd or 4th track that much at all, but it ... read more

Don't take this as my final review because I fully expect this album to grow on me more and more as time goes on. I really love this album as a collection of songs, but I can't help but feel something is missing. It feels like I can pigeonhole each song into one of the three members rather than songs really feeling like something each of them wrote collectively, and it's kind of making me feel disappointed after my second listen, despite loving most of the material on here.

Alright, I think I've finally listened to this enough times to actually analyse this album in some way shape or form.

10,000 Gecs is the long anticipated next stage of exponential expansion of the petri dish in which scientists Dylan Brady and Laura Les originally placed 100 bacteria known as Strepptococcus Gecsicus, which are widely known to produce sounds that resemble music, to determine their growth rate. They also produce hyperpop albums but that's not the important thing here ... read more

So on top of having one of the most horrid covers in recent memory, this album is just bland and pointless. It has no life or ambition to it and feels like they saw Criminals blow up from being an ad to one Aussie tv drama and are hoping to make bank off of more commercials. The whole album blends into itself that makes it feel more like an hour and a half than 40 minutes.

It ain't reinventing the wheel by any means, but it's a decent indie-folk/indie-rock EP.

Four of the songest singers in NijiEN, the first collab song that crosses between units, and it's just not good.

I'm sure the lyrics have some meaning in the context of the game's narrative, I'm not gonna go too deep on those even if they are wack as hell.
The biggest issue is whatever they did with the vocals. Everyone's vocals for some reason sounds like they were asked to be super screechy for some reason. Like, no one's singing sounds natural for some reason. Elira, Pomu and Maria's vocals ... read more

How do the managers of one of the biggest boy bands in the world let him release something this bad. I woulda been fine if it was like, bland sanitised k-pop but no there are some baffling choices on this album that put Smithereens by Joji to shame. Why is the first song mixed to be so much quieter than the rest of the EP, why is there a shitty interlude on a not even 20 minute long EP, why are the vocal falls on Alone a thing they're so jarring. WHAT IS SET ME FREE PT. 2 THIS SONG IS ... read more

Some stuff on here feels like interesting gnere fusions of ska, meanwhile there's tracks like "What Is This Techno Stuff?" that feel really underbaked and passionless.

My biggest problem with this record is that Bakar doesn't have the confidence to make a topical track about his mental health without making it really obvious that it's a song about his mental health and kind of resisting putting any effort into crafting a song around it. He seemingly doesn't want to make a tune that might take away from the lyrics at all instead of creating a melancholic track that surrounds it. Cause he can create a good sad banger when he tries like the track Hell and Back ... read more

WHY DOES THIS GO SO HARD? LIKE, THIS IS BETTER THAN THEIR ENTIRE CATALOGUE, THEY RELEASED THE BLAND ASS SCALED AND ICY AFTER THIS, I DON'T UNDERSTAND!

It's not horrible but this really feels like it's dated musically by 20 years tryna live their own glory days alongside Panic at the Disco and Maroon 5 and I'm just not carimg about it much. It's leagues better than their 2010s output though.

It's definitely more got the vibes of a summer playlist than a thematic album or anything but I don't think that's a bad thing. There's unfortunately a pretty decent mix of quality with some of the artists having not done much outside of covers or having much of a singing repitoire at all, but I wouldn't call anything on here bad.

Here We Go with Ky0resu/Riro Ron on vocals is a pretty decent trap pop banger, with Ky0's vocals that definitely feels much more "digital". Her chipmunky ... read more

God that was long geez. There was good stuff on here but I can't help but feel the grandiosity isn't something that will hold up to repeat listens very well. And this album is an hour and 17 minutes long?

Lana Del Rey is an artist who I've never been crazy about. If I could call any artist distinctly "American", I'd say it's her, in a waythat it feels like she's calling back to a kind of culture and era I have no era for as an Australian. It means as an Australian it can feel like ... read more

It's a really pretty song but I feel like it kind of loses steam for being a 5 and a half minute song. Much more divorced from just being about Uki's lore and being a really beautiful love song though.

Holy shit, Stevie Knight actually got to produce an emo-trap song for Ren instead of having to do Owl City type pop and it turned out to be Ren's best song. I think there's something about this song that's holding it back, and Ren's vocals kind of miss in a few spots, but the production is on fucking point given this guy is mainly the producer for Australian emo-trap/pop punk bands like Stand Atlantic and Yours Truly, and I can hear the Stand Atlantic flourishes especially on this track.

This feels like a perfect evolution from where Matt Corby was at on Rainbow Valley, incorperating more jazz and funk elements into his very ethereal indie-rock sound. There are a few moments that drag and I really feel like Mainies should have been the closer because the Title Track just doesn't feel like it ends off the album in the same way.

Bro I swear I wash my ass bro you gotta believe me bro
Sorry for the 85 yall my neck hurts from a Sampa the Great concert I wasn't able to fully enjoy this album on first listen.

It's a fun enough record but I can't help but feel nothing on this quite stands up to the track that introduced me to them, Reverie, in just the sheer warmth that track gave off.

You know what's frustrating? When most of an album is mediocre to bad but then there are one or two songs that just click. That's how it felt listening to this project.

Most of this EP is spent trying to shove the aesthetics of Cloud Rap into a glam pop Lady Gaga-esque song and it just creates this really weird vibe of xofilo just trying way too hard to sound glamourous in that throw designer shit at a wallkind of way that makes it feel like they're putting on way too much of a front, but at ... read more