I feel like on first listen, this album really felt like I lost complete track of where I was sometime around Echolalia, and once I got to Purified by the Fire I was completely lost on my listening experience. I feel like I'm going to need another listen through that I'm never quite going to get around to...

Boys will literally drop a 14 minute 6 track pop punk EP called That's Life about how they don't need therapy instead of going to therapy

Oh my god the last track WHY ARE YOU SINGING ABOUT PEOPLE WANTING TO CANCEL YOU WHAT DID I MISS ABOUT FIDLAR DID I MISS SOMETHIBG HUH?!

Country Club is genuinely one of the most mean-spirited, entitled white boy crap songs I have ever heard. The entire song is essentially saying "you're more well off than I am so you don't actually have problems to complain about they're clearly just superficial problems" from two of the whitest, living on Byron Bay high off their ass surfer dudes ever. It's so slow and insipid, and the weird instrumentals sound like they're even more there to make fun of the song's subject even more. ... read more

The quality and interest I had for this album varies pretty wildly across its short runtime. There isn't a lot notable across this album, most of it is pretty by the numbers j-rock. There are also a lot of really predictable breakdowns throughout the album

I'd say the highlights for this album were Kanata's track Leech and Okayu's track End Role.
Leech was still a j-rock track, but the singing was an absolute highlight and the instrumental behind her was fast and phrenetic in a way I just ... read more

This album is a beatuifully melancholic lo-fi project. Super easy to get lost in the atmosphere of, with warm, soft saxophones and vocals that feel like a qarm fireplace on a cold winter. It feels beautiful and managed to keep me hooked for the entire runtime.

It's just pretty generic k-pop/fast rap styled energy without any major spark moments. Also relies way too much on one liners involving better artists.

This album feels like it mixes the flows of a Genesis Owusu song with the atmosphere of MOTM Kid Cudi, with queerness shaken all over the top of it. Some of the opening moments have sone slightly cringy deliveries, especially the song Ketamine does not work at all, but it really settles into something special in the second half.
The closer especially is amazing, tackling themes of dealing with racism while also dealing with being a gay trans man in the hip hop community and trying to figure out ... read more

It's really not that great to be quite honest. It starts out feeling like a rather poorly mixed Porter Robinson song with an electronica bedroom pop aesthetic on the first few tracks before slowly droning on into some generic non-descript bedroom pop that doesn't manage to leave much of an impression.

In a year where I feel like indie Jungle/DnB has started to stagnate, I feel like Nia Archives is managing to push her sounds even further as she releases her second EP

Buena Suerte's debut EP is my first introduction to the spanish ska scene, and while this EP ain't reinventing the wheel, it's 5 tracks of some damn solid pop punk infused ska.

Why are the drums mixed like that why are the drums mixed like that why are the drums mixed like that why are the drums mixed like that.

I started the album feeling like something was missing from the energy, Flowers is an alright reversal of Bruno Mars' when I was your man, but from there up until Handstand it's like, just kind of there I guess?

Handstand is such a bloody anomaly, it sounds like it could fit in a rhythm game, like, especially the section right in the middle sounds like it ... read more

While I wasn't sold on MM@TA's debut album at first, they come with a clear reverance for the genre, adapting the more recent sounds of 2010's pop punk seen on Paramore's self-titled and After Laughter era with a bit more punch not reinventing the wheel or anything by an absolutely enjoyable time.

Some of the noisiest, most abrasive hyperpop I've hear in ages as the genre slowly feels like it's being sanitised for popular audiences. Absolutely weird all the way through without sacrificing a good song in its process.

Unfortunately it became unrelateable at the song .sex because I don't have it.

This album felt like I was going insane while I was listening, not because of the quality of the songs, which all feel like knockoffs of better artists, but of what it's trying to represent. Macklemore has always been the modern butt of the joke about white rappers since 2023, and I feel like this album was his attempt at reinventing his image to try and be accepted by "the culture", while still trying to have his pop cake too.

The album starts out with a run of "we have X at ... read more

19/05/2023
Damn, I thought Slowthai had grown as a person since harassing a woman at one of his shows and then writing a song called Cancelled about the whole situation but nah fuck him.
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So, I have some hope that this album may grow on me over time, as my second impression of the album's first half was much mire posutive ... read more

Most of this album is some really groovy, bassy jazz rap which I'm sure will grow on me with another listen or two. The flows have this really distinctive feel like they aren't tryna bite from any artist in particular but feels like their own creation from a few different styles, notably, Eminem, Anderson .paak, and Kendrick. I live so much about this album.

What the fuck is that closing track. I'm sorry. Why does it close out on this weird cut with these high, wailing guitars as someone raos ... read more

This album genuinely has 0 redeeming qualities. The beats are dogshit and feel like they have 0 thought put into them. The lyrics have him so far up his own ass that he makes Demondice seem like a well adjusted human being. Vocally he has less charisma than a piece of cardboard. The sampling is erratic and mindless, I'm convinced he sampled Brad Taste in Music at one point on Who Wants Smoke and VTuber Shylily on Changed For The Worse, as well as him sampling Navi from Ocarina of Time on the ... read more

"metal cover" that literally amounts to her speaking the lyrics with less charisma than a parlimetary speaker over some slightly distorted guitars, it's not sexy it's just uncomfortable. CupcakKe doesn't deserve this shit done to her song.

This really has all the elements of a punk record I should love, but something feels like it's being held back. I originally wrote up a bunch of similar punk bands and superficial reasons why I loved them despite them sharing similar qualities to this self-titled Death Pill record, until I gave it a second listen and I think I figured it out. There is this lack of contrast on the early parts of the record that made it really hard to get into during the first leg. Dirty Rotten Youth, Miss ... read more

It's fine, I think Ruel's definitely starting to come into his own a bit more given his older music which wss scarily nice guy possessive love song, but yeah... enjoyed this more than Harry's House which Ruel is super taking influences from.

I just wish he'd use the sheer force of his voice in the same way he did on his Lenny Kravitz cover just once on his original material.