Something I never thought I'd be saying going into Death Grips' second outing as a band was to call it "accessible". Obviously it's still an industrial hip hop album, there will be a lot of things about this album that would put your average pop listener off, but when I got this on vinyl and listened for the first time and even my mum, who is in much more of a mainstream to indie pop lane than I am, is able to sit down, listen and say she was actually enjoying it (albeit it's not ... read more

This is genuinely one of the worst things I've ever heard. The most generic possible pop-punk and metal instrumentals mixed like absolute garbage, lyrics are the so shallow and edgy they'd make Shadow the Hedgehog blush, and the vocals are so fucking bad. They're horrible in general and the melodic flow makes no fucking sense, but I didn't even know it was possible for autotune to be this out of tune until listening to this album. The screamo is absolutely horrible too, it sounds like he's ... read more

Overall, this album is a great listen but shakes out kind of rough. Playing on the intersection of k-pop and Australian rap, 1300 are in a really unique position to pioneer their sound. However, their debut mixtape shows they are still trying to figure out what their sound actually is. Overall more good than bad on this project, but it especially falls apart in the last few tracks, leaving the album off on an unfortunate lowpoint. I also want to say I don't know much Korean at all so I can't ... read more

I want to like it more than I did but it felt aimless towards the end. The instrumentals were good but there just wasn't a hook to it.

I just feel like I've heard everything on this record done before better. Not saying there's anything bad here but there's nothing I walk away from this album being like "Yes, that's what Circa Waves' sound is", just comparing them to other indie rock outfits like Death Cab for Cutie and Catfish and the Bottlemen.

Just an all around fun little drum and bass release, has a decent bit of personality, with a very spacey, dreamy feeling that probably is why the first thing of Memphis LK's that got attention being a drum and bass cover of The Less I Know The Better before she started dropping the tracks for this EP. Roses and Letters in Concrete are both nice jammy tracks, Green Light and Speak Honestly are pretty decent . The remix of Letters in Concrete is a bit too much padding for the EP.
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I feel like something is missing with this EP. Compared to her 2021 release, it feels like there's some bite or personality that this EP is lacking. I could at least point out something across most of the first EP that stuck with me across most of the tracks, whereas these songs all just feel like due to the recent explosion of indie Drum and Bass which has been especially led by artists like pinkpantheress, Memphis LK has almost tried to box herself into the same sound as them instead of ... read more

This album feels so eager to relive the past that it feels like it's just jumping through every trope it can think of of old rock and country without anything feeling like it makes sense.

Frenzy and Modern Day Ripoff both feel like they're an old man trying to act like he's still cool, and I swear there's his vocals or something crackling like it's been recorded wrong in a few of these tracks rather than sounding like any sort of distortion. Also he tries to make himself cool and edgy by ... read more

Classics Week 7/1/2023

Geez what a stellar album. I can definitely see this being bumped up to 100 once I get a chance to really sit down and digest it but it was just non-stop energy and charisma from start to finish. It started to trail off a tiny bit in the last track but also I had a long day and was tired as hell while listening so I was probably just gonna feel like that about nearly anything.

Classics Week 6/1/2023

I find it hard to get into more hectic metal because, while I love a technical piece of metal and can appreciate it, sometimes I find some heavy and death metal tend to just not stick with me for whatever reason. This, however, was absolutely not the case on Master of Puppets. Phrenetic and trashy while also making sure that the album is actually catchy and sticky. The title track is one of the best songs I've ever heard. The only thing holding this album back on first ... read more

Zach Fox at home

I think Yeah is the only song that actually got a chuckle from me which isn't a good thing from a joke album.

For how ecclectic the short little intro was, this album was super bog standard. Feels like it loses any and all sense of momentum after the third or so proper track. Honestly most of the album went in one ear and out the other.

Sounds like a RADWIMPS ripoff but at least Mega Shinnosuke doesn't support eugenics, I hope.

A great sad banger which is reminiscent of songs like Sad Machine from Porter Robinson's early discography. Feels like it actually has some weight behind the lyrics and singing. Sometimes it feels like the vocals and instrumentals clash a bit, and I feel like it cuts off just before some kind of little resolution, but other than that I adore this song.

I returned to this song with the feeling I might be underwhelmed on second listen, but instead I got a really sweet, sugary song about trying to smile even in the worst of times (I think). It's nothing mindblowing, but it's nice and bouncy and I enjoy it for what it is.

I feel like the vocals need a bit more punch for the braggadocio that the song is going for but there are absolutely moments on this song that just hit. The "Fire, Wind and Earth can't stop me" hook packs the exact kind of punch that the song really needs and makes it more than just background noise.

Nijisanji finally learnt what autotune was on this, but not even autotune can save Scarle and Kyo's vocals. Aia and Aster feel like they're at least nice and bubblegummy but they're not good. Ren Zotto is a competent singer, and he can actually deliver with some dynamics and inflection, but I really don't care for his best impression of Adam Young from Owl City. Maria Marionette is the only person whose vocals carry through this whole song, she's actually a good singer and she's extremely ... read more

There is a line in this song where Doppio and Meloco say "I had to bury all my demons like the mortuary" and I feel like that summarises everything wrong with this song. First of all I cannot pick a single good vocalist who saves this song. Secondly, the song, like that line, feels like it's clashing multiple competing ideas into one and it makes no fucking sense. Dead bodies go in the mortuary. I get you're saying you are killing your demons but holy fuck unless you're playing The ... read more

It's a wall of sound that makes no sense together, the vocals are painful save for Uki and Yugo, and it feels like the two of them are straight up throwing to not outshine the rest of the singers. The instrumental beat is horrendous too. I cannot with this song.

They sound like they are imitating a Japanese person trying to speak English in an anime and not actual English speakers. Even the people who are genuinely good singers sound like they're straight up forcing themselves to sing worse for some reason. The instrumentals are annoying, the rap is obnoxiously bad, the lyrics are fucking nothing, there is weird clipping at the end of every time they say jazz like the producers clearly just want to be working with a Vocaloid and not real human people. ... read more

This song starts extremely strong and then just falls into a lull for close to a whole minute of this 3 minute song. The breakdown portion just keeps going and going and going and it just feels like it didn't have any ideas outside of the main chorus line. Only about 30% of this is actually a fun song and there's only about 13% of that which is unique material.