I come into this review with a rough understanding of Bocchi the Rock from being around anime circles, but not having watched the show and without any attachment to Kessoku Band as a fictional entity.

I feel like the Kessoku Band self titled LP can be divided into two halves for me, the OP/ED cuts and the "Bocchi cuts". I feel like tracks like Seisyun complex, Distortion!! and What is Wrong With aren't *bad* in any sense, they feel more like they are more on the lines of the higher ... read more

I feel like this song is one of the two songs that kind of exemplify my problem with Lime Cordiale, they come across as kind of gimmicky with how much the hammer the *ding* check please joke is done, it becomes painful towards the end of the song. Also the vocals are way too washed out.
The are we just crustaceans who can read and write line is a banger though.

Avril Lavigne feels like she's regressed as an artist from where she started and the singer who most of us grew up with. Rather than coming in with the perspective of someone who has been in this lane for ages to try and show what the new wave of artists trying to ride the coattails of Blink-182 are doing wrong, she doubles down, writing the an album whose songlist feels like they can be easily interchanged save for some features that do absolutely nothing to add to the track list other than ... read more

W was the album that helped me get into Boris and drone metal in the first place. However, unfortunately after diving further into Boris' backcatalogue of albums, especially their other works in drone metal, this album just feels unfocused. So many songs on this thing feel like they're meandering in some way, shape or form, like they aren't sure where they want to go. The highlight is probably the song Beyond Good and Evil, but even that just feels kind of okay at best. It's just kind of ... read more

This was easily in my top 3 albums of 2021 when it came out and returning to it now with where I'm at working in a creative field of video editing, there are parts of this album I relate to way more to the point that this album made me cry returning to it during Wind Tempos and Musician. The sound of this album is a perfect distillation of comfort and chaos that perfectly sums up the overall themeing of the album and individual track themes and emotions.

The album's intro is a mostly ... read more

Literally cannot stop laughing at this thing, like, it could be tightened up, it's not a perfect song by any means, but then cleaning up the song would lose so much of the charm.

Short version of this review, a man in his late 30s writes an album where he yells at the internet.

Instrumentally, The Wombats are doing the bare minimum at evolving their sound, adding some drums that sonically differentiate this album from previous albums, but overall most of the songs tend to blend into themselves over time. Songs like This Car Drives All By Itself causes itself to drag because Matt's vocals can't keep up with the energy the instruments are going for. The horns in Ready ... read more

Why did this go hard? No for real, Mic the Snare went into so much effort to make this project sound good. While I think this mashup album starts out a bit slow, She Will Wake Up and Moves Like a Tokyo Payphone were kinda chill and This Surprise kinda just went in one ear and out the other, the entire stretch of The Days When My Mother Was Cold to Phantoms Like You was just an absolute jamfest. I think it lost steam towards the end, with the last two tracks not really hitting all that well, but ... read more

Edit: at the time of this review, I had written off Internet Brain Rot as a song that is her just talking about her haters for the 50th time and moved on with my life. However after someone brought up the lyrics on this, I can't even justify the 35 I get this album, not only did she do a scarily dogwhistly song about cancel culture, but its message and existence has lead to actual, direct harrassment towards producer umru. Anyone involved in this harrassment should be ashamed of ... read more

I'm sorry, I tried to get past the lyrics on this album, I really did, but oh my god they really just broke me at some point.

The sound of the album is obviously the best part of the album. It's extremely ambitious and the moment I tune out anything the vocalist is saying, the album is like, an 8-9/10. I love how so much of this album sounds, the sampling is creative and interesting across the whole thing.

Lyrically though, it can get so unbearably self-important and contradictory that it ... read more

I feel like about 90% of this EP goes hard, but for a 6 minute EP, I feel like it doesn't have the room to do something like the absolute mess of an ending of Torture Me. I don't inherently hate the sudden switchup, I've heard Gecs' music plenty to know that's what they do, but it needed more time to breathe or do anything instead of coming in like a horror movie jumpscare and ruin all flow it had going for it.
Hey Big Man goes hard though, Runaway was good too, hope the album is as good as ... read more

Something that I've noticed the most about Inabakumori the more I've listened to their work is that they feel like they use the robotic nature of Vocaloid to their advantage a lot more than other Vocaloid artists. Using the Kaai Yuki voicebank, which often comes across as much less human than some other Vocaloid packs, Inabakumori embraces that for songs that have a more odd, dance rock flavour to them.
4th track Lagtrain became as popular in the West as it did for just how bouncy the song is ... read more

I don't go into a Dune Rats album expecting something grand, epic or thought provoking, but my god this album is just not it. It feels like they just, didn't try.
Up was a fun tune about the simple joy of getting your tax returns and a nice teaser single. What a Memorable Night was a fun one too, joking about alcohol related memory loss on "memorable nights". However, they can't save this trash fire of a record.
The other singles, dumb tv and Pamela Aniston feel blokey in the worst ... read more

So I fully understand the idea behind this record, Ben Lee looking back on his younger years and reflecting on how his perspectives on the world have changed since them. It feels like he's trying to package all of this into something to give to his kids, who are mentioned a few times throughout this record. Specifically tracks like Like This Like That, Arsehole and Cowards, all of which he looks back on the way he used to think about the world and how he used to be, and saying it's normal to be ... read more

I definitely enjoyed this album while it was on. I think its ideas are pretty well formed and played through. However, nothing on this album really felt like it stuck with me, it just kinda hit and then left in a way that I don't really remember it even a few minutes after finishing it. Good while it's on, good to scratch a hyperpop itch, but not something I'm itching to return to immediately.

I'm sorry, I've enjoyed a lot of Stormzy's work in the past, Heavy is the Head was a standout album to me, and I really don't blame him for trying to make a more introspective album. I just think he took a lot of the bite out of his music to do it.

I feel like in his quest to make a softer album, he thought that he needed to take out the passion from his delivery, but his songs like Crown on his previous records show exactly how you can create the emotional moments he clearly wants. Instead, ... read more

Turns out when Ado has a team of producers that can actually match her energy, the album that results from it is a huge banger. Plenty of songs on here clear even her biggest hit Usseewa out of the corner, with the climax of Backlight hitting so much harder, and The World's Continuation being an extremely beautiful ballad. Hiroyuki Sawano's addition to Tot Musica is an amazing ride, and BINKUSUNO SAKE is honestly a really good novelty track given the fact it is all in character of the pirates. ... read more

When this song works, it really works, but there are a bunch of times where the flow of the lyrics just feels like they're a complete afterthought, cramming phrasing that does not fit in the space they need and just causing the most bizarre clashing between the instrumental and the vocals. The bridge also just kills all momentum the song has.

Went in not knowing what to expect, but the album slowly showed more and more diversity as it went on, just a absolute ripping time.

With songwriting that feels much more contemplative than the sharp snark of her debut, Stella Donnelly manages to prevent herself from being pidgeonholed on this record from just the sharp-wittedness of her breakthrough record Beware of the Dogs. However, the transition feels like it's missing something, as it's not like maturity was exactly missing on her previous release, and I wish there was more of that personality shining through on this album as well.