This is surely not the same person who made Adore right? Like, they're different people right? This woman unironically pronounced "ouija" as "weegee" on one of the songs on this album.

I'd been putting off listening to this album for ages because I've cared less and less about Amy Shark's music as time has gone on from her debut album Love Monster. Cry Forever wasn't bad it was pretty okay but my god this album is just bad.

A lot of the emotion ... read more

Imma be real, I expected more from this album. There's a decent amount of bangers on this, from Wacced Out Murals, Squabble Up, and Tv Off with that instantly iconic MUSTAAAAAAARD, but it also has some of the least interesting Kendrick songs I've ever heard on peekaboo and gnx, and a second half that just felt a little unmemorable in comparison, even if gloria was a fun collab and heart pt. 6 was an interesting ode to everyone who has been there with Kendrick from the start.
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I want to like this a lot more, this is a really solid and beautiful project but it's marred by some really weird ass production, like the two Alice Ivy produced tracks, High on Loving You and Kubona both cut off before the instruments finish ringing out, or the parallel compression's bleed being absurdly noticable where the cuts in the vocal comp are because you hear that little bit of extra fuzz before and after the vocal phrases on Try For Me.
Meanwhile, Free Fall, produced by ... read more

Would I call this album good?
God no, it's a mashup of edgy lyrical tropes and generic riffs with Emmy Mack's vocals occasionally just comes off as annoying or grating.
However, I can't help but feel drawn to Redhook's latest album despite that. Be it the over the top fast rapping of Bomb.com where Stand Atlantic gets a name drop, to the pop punk Tourist about a guy basically being a tourist to her love life to the intense metal of Cannibal which is just straight up a good ... read more

Pacific Highway Music was not an album I had any intentions of listening to given the absolute trainwreck that was the 2021 sophomore record from these bogan rock blokes REHERSAL, which saw them trying to evolve their sound and just failing miserably into really droney, boring pub rock numbers. However, something happened here. It became the feature album on Triple J instead of the new King Stingray album and something just, clicked finally getting exposed to a bit more of the album. It's ... read more

An album with an explosive start which, while having a few highlights here and there in great pop punk and glitch pop moments, never quite reaches the heights of its opening for me. Also there's a weird fall off in volume between tracks 1 and 2?

Overall a very solid j-rock record with some really strong standout moments in mermaid and NEO WABISHII, but otherwise feels like it doesn't stand out enough from the crowd to really push it much further over the edge.

How do I explain my mixed feelings about this project while still justifying my high rating of it. Because a lot of media I've been consuming lately has made me kind of exhausted and critical of the kind of weird culture we've developed about how we talk about the kinds of characters Geordie Greep has constructed across this album.

From a surface musical level, A New Sound feels similar to give enough solace to a grieving Black Midi fan that there will still be that kind of music in ... read more

I feel like I didn't quite get until now just how much I needed King Stingray's music until now. While it definitely doesn't have as many catchy moments as their debut record, this album still feels like an ephemeral warm hug, and I think that's kind of the point. The songs are all about taking in the beauty of fleeting moments, like Day Off which is about being able to just escape from everything for a day, or Best Bits which is just about embracing the best bits of life. ... read more

My god could they process those vocals any harder I think I still have some of my hearing left.

Like, yeah, it's well produced, but also I shockingly do not enjoy listening to a grown man singing about how he wants to have sex with a dead historical minor for 8 fucking minutes.

And experience like no other just, standing on Halloween, waiting for trick or treaters, standing in low friction slippers, getting pulled along the hardwood floorboards by your dog playing tug of war, as you start this trancelike dance to arsonist, this album feels genuinely like something I shouldn't be listening to, like I'm invading the privacy of Halsey themselves.

The Great Impersonator is not always an album that sounds amazing, there are moments where some of the most ... read more

Nothing but respect for Tyler's commitment to wanting to get his neck broken by someone with a fat ass.
Also the rest of the album is good too

Amyl and the Sniffers have found that perfect balance on this album between fun punk energy and calling out the absolute garbage who tend to both inhabit and criticise punk adjacent Aussie music. Be it making fun of her more conservative detractors on singles like Chewing Gum and You Should Not Be Doing That or the tracks about making her life what she wants despite the fuckwits on tracks like the opener Jerkin' or the closing track Me and the Girls. All with just a healthy serving of not ... read more

It's not easy to follow up a debut album as instantly iconic as Better in Blak, but unfortunately Thelma Plum's softmore release leaves something to be desired from the Gamilaraay artist.

I'm Sorry, Now Say It Back feels like an album whose main theme feels about growing up and encouraging the next generation of Blak folks on Australia. With songs like the opening track Wiseman about rejecting the advice of people who claim to know best, or Freckles about learning to love who ... read more

This does not fundamentally feel like the same band who made the absolute masterpiece that is Innerbloom. Both the singles leading up to this album were disappointing with Music is Better coming off as a dollar store version of Music Sound Better With You by Stardust. Meanwhile Lately just felt like it didn't have that spark that would make it shine like some of their best singles. The line "teach me hownto love, and teach me how to love again" in that felt so phoned in.

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Friend and Time Will Try just clear the rest of this EP, two hyper emotional rock ballads about wanting to still be close to an ex even after a breakup because those memories are still there. Physical Medicine is almost there as well but something about it just feels less impactful despite adding a string section and those CRJ throwback toms.

The Part is almost there too but the singing on the chorus is kinda shoddy and unmemorable in the way a lot of modern Coldplay ballads feel, which hurts ... read more

Geordie Greep? Godspeed You Black Emperor? Clarence Clarity? The Smile? Cunt, who gives a fuck. Australian satirical rock legends, This Is Serious Mum are back and here to say the word cunt enough that it would make your average American clutch their chest in horror. Being 20 years since their last album, TISM have gained almost this even more mythical status here in Australia since departing prior to the age of social media. With no word about the band with legendary songs such as ... read more

Yeah this fucking rules, a super diverse EP that combines their sounds in a super unique way. I can't get enough of it and I just wish it was longer.

I was curious what her solo output was like after rinsing Berlin Nightmare and while I enjoy it I feel like there's something that's not fully hitting on Evita Manji's debut record. A super ambient project that feels extremely akin to prime 070 Shake, there's a lot of interesting stuff here but nothing that feels properly sticky in itself. There are things that I want to deconstruct soundwise but yeah it's just not quite all there.