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Okay jokes aside, I saw Wisp X's name while scrolling a while ago when just way too much stuff dropped in a week and it took me a while to get back to this project. The comparisons to Porter Robinson are not unwarranted, his first two records feel like huge inspiration to this, especially with how the vocal manipulations sound very similar to the stuff he was doing on Nurture. However Wisp X definitely feels like its own thing despite ... read more

It's overall solid bubblegum bass and hyperpop but it doesn't really do much more to really stick with you over this 6 track EP. I'm comparing it to other Aussie artists like NINAJIRACHI who are doing similar work and there's nothing that really feels distinct or catchy with this project in comparison.

Overall a really solid debut collaboration from two artists from Australia who have their hands on so much of the most international exports in our psych rock scene. It doesn't feel like it's really pushing the envelope in any way but that doesn't stop it from feeling super fresh and enjoyable.

I vibe with this a lot, I was just vibing along with most of this and can definitely see myself coming back to it given how short a listen it is.

God I feel so disappointed with this album. It's not bad but it feels lacking. It should feel like this big collaborative celebration but it feels homogenous instead, like people are more focused on fitting into the project neatly rather than really letting themselves shine. There are a few highlights here, SKED is a fuckin banger and Cole Pimp is the smoothest track here by far.
But at the end I'm left asking what this album does to fit into a catalogue as stacked as Denzel's. ... read more

Gimuy/Cairns artist Eves Karydas' newest album comes after ditching her label and rebranding her whole image and relationship with music following her breakout success with single Complicated in 2020. However, I don't think she quite sticks the landing on her transition away from pop and into a more neo-soul/neo-psych angle similar to Aussie juggernauts.
However, I can't help but feel Eves Karydas is still in the process of learning and fine tuning her new sound. A lot of this ... read more

First of all, I can't even call yall prudes at this point, Cupcakke's latest album has an average score of 77 on here yall just hate furries IS2G.

Realistically, this is pretty bland bedroom pop which some of yall are absolutely losing your minds over cause it's about furries and rope play instead of vanilla sex. I've seen more fucked up things talked about on my Twitter feed than what's going on here fucking grow up. My biggest issue about this album is honestly the ... read more

Okay, now that I'm not rushing out of the house and have some time to actually write stuff down, I can give some actual thoughts on this album.

Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is one of those albums that shows up everywhere in music circles as a classic album. Countless best albums of all time lists and the opening track is basically iconic at this point. From that same era as the Beatles, it's one of those albums that's influencial to the point it runs the risk of almost feeling ... read more

Girl$ by Dom Dolla clears
Also Girl$ by Stand Atlantic and PVRIS
Also Girls by Girl in Red

The few decent moments on this sophomore record by Boorloo/Perth producer Kučka absolutely fail to make up for how grating and unfinished the majority of the project.
Opening track Wasting Time alongside Messed Up see Kučka straining her voice to an unappealing extreme alongside absolutely blown out production. Meanwhile most of the opening run of tracks feel blatantly unfinished, just not put together or like they're presets meant to be removed later. There are shades of better ... read more

I want to like this album more but man, it feels like it's lacking something overall. It's a great vibe, Clairo's voice is lush and beautiful, the instrumentation is stellar. However, it feels like if I try to dig much further into this album it ends up being not much more for me. Maybe there's more to unpack like lead single Sexy to Someone being about tying your self worth to having someone find you attractive and how that all crashes down when that person leaves yoyr ... read more

Overall, this is a solid indie rock album with small smatterings of pop punk, pulling from 2000s pop rock like Avril Lavigne (Those tracks like Unwanted and Ordinary off Let Go, not Sk8tr Boi or Girlfriend) or The Veronicas. Tracks like Ahead Of Myself and Guard My Heart feel like those long, soft, nostalgic ballads that Eliza and the Delusional have also made their brand in the last half-decade, while tracks like Subject A and Settle Petal are snarkier pop punk tracks that they blasted onto ... read more

I'm sorry Speed.
I wasn't familiar with your game.
You dropped the least interesting song of the album as the single Triple J would spin.
Instead this is some of the most exhilirating hardcore I've heard since last year's Soul Glo record.
Eora/Sydney artist hardcore group Speed have dropped possibly the best Australian record of the year so far. Starting off at a blistering pace, the band only lets their foot off the gass towards the end for the sake of delivering some of ... read more

Out of respect to someone who was clearly thrust into the spotlight who wasn't quite ready for it and is now having to navigate having to deal with predatory music industry bullshit as well as an ever growing mountain of detractors, I can't give this an outright 0.

However holy fuck this song is nearly unlistenable. Ado's vocals are at their worst at points on this single, it feels like it's written by an edgy teen because well, that's who she is but still, it's ... read more

It's peak, it's the most Australian thing you've ever heard, two mates probably in a cramped room with no talent with the unmatched charisma of a blackout drunk white bloke. It's so fucking bogan. It's beautiful. It's so poorly mixed it would make Camellia blush. It's both genuine and yet insincere at the same time. There's the most Australian cover of Edamame by bbno$ and Rich Brian on here. I think one of them are trans but the two of them have no ... read more

So I'm definitely biased on this album. It was produced by Jonothan Tooke from Cry Club, I've seen her perform live and her sound is very similar to an Australian artist I grew up listening to, Missy Higgins. Missy Higgins' early work shaped my childhood, her early work still includes some of my favourite music of all time, and there are songs on here that absolutely feel up there with some of those. Tracks like Ikea, a song about the emptiness of a house after a breakup as your ... read more

Naarm/Melbourne artist Uboa is someone whose works I know about, but have never dived into. I did start Origin of my Depression at the start of the year, but I felt I wasn't quite in the right mindstate to engage with it without it damaging me at the time. I was debating whether I should hold off on listening to this and listening to her previous critical darling of an album before this one, however, I'm glad I didn't wait.

Albums like this, ones which viscerally display ... read more

Raw, phrenetic and charged punk music from Boorloo/Perth group Sooks's debut album. With clear vocal inspiration from other Aussie punk icons like Amyl and the Sniffers, the album only really lets up during an awkward drop in volume at the beginning of Tabula Rasa.
Meanwhile the songs are short and sharp like the best songs by acts like The Chats or Otoboke Beaver, while covering topics like how annoying and dogwhistly crypto bros are, living with endometriosis is a medical system that ... read more

So I need to give this another listen because I decided to listen while sick while walking my dog and now my shoulder hurts and I want to do nothing but lie down and I don't remember most of how the start of this album went other than there was nothing that grabbed my like Get Sun or Red Room off of Mood Valiant.
Cinnamon Temple goes stupid.

One of the best Australian albums ever made