Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
85

I plan to go back and listen again another time because I was initially put off a bit by the vocals. Once I got used to them and even before that, this was just one of the tightest metalcore records I've heard in a long time. Suffocate was def a highlight but first pass the album didn't properly click till Slaughterhouse 2 which is why I need to give it another listen soon.

Angus & Julia Stone - Cape Forestier
35

Man, this album just feels so barren. The title track just was doing so little for me when it dropped given the high expectations of some of their other big singles like Chateau off of Snow and the Hottest 100 winning Big Jet Plane. Their like a Version of Lewis Capaldi's Someone To Love dropped my expectations even more earlier in the year but I wasn't prepared for just how nothing of a record this was.

My biggest issue is that the majority of this album feels like Angus Stone's honestly ... read more

WILLOW - empathogen
70

So the album is weird. Willow is taking her sound and mostly shifting it towards jazz and funk whilst occassionally retaining some of her pop punk sensibilities. The tracjs when she goes full jazz like the opening track and no words 1 & 2 are the biggest surprises by just how good they are including her vocal performances and scatting on the tracks.

There are a few other tracks on here that go full acoustic guitar with this vibe I get from like, flamenco spanish guitar in the tone in ... read more

Macklemore - HIND'S HALL
90

WHAT THE FUCK YOU MEAN MACKLEMORE COOKED?
Like, every other time he's tried to make a concious hip hop song like this he's fallen flat on his face. Look at Same Love or that cringe song about white guilt. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE MANAGED TO FUCKING COOK ON A FREE PALESTINE SONG?

So when is he collabing with redveil for the remix.

Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
100

This is that image of Grant Guston posing next to Oliver Queen's grave in song form

Drake - Family Matters
70

Honestly, this beef is bringing out some of Drake's strongest material in years. He sound hungry and wounded in a way that he's not been for ages now that his image is being put through the shredder.

HOWEVER, my biggest thing with this whole thing is that this would have cut way deeper on the Kendrick parts if it had dropped before Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers. If he's been sitting on this since before then I think he's taken too long to fire and Kendrick. Mr. Morale was an album about ... read more

Sia - Reasonable Woman
NR

I don't give a shit if Sia is Australian she's a shit person and makes shit music I ain't listening to allat

Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
60

Honestly, IDK I feel like there's stuff on here that just isn't hitting as much as I was hoping. It just doesn't feel like it kind of falls off in energy the longer the album goes on and it made the back half of the album a chore to listen to.

LustSickPuppy - CAROUSEL FROM HELL
85

This goes absolutely stupid, EXES is probably the only bad track on here I think

Logan Priest - Lost In Translation
45

I remember seeing Logan live opening for Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers last year and just being kind of bored. He's trying to do this blend of Rex Orange County's lacksidasical energy, Chuck Berry rock energy and the sex appeal of Elvis Presley, but he just kind of lacks any of the aspects to properly pull it off. It's better than some crooner stuff in the Aus scene it's got some actual life to it but it's not really that sexy, memorable or cozy in ways that the aforementioned inspiration ... read more

Kendrick Lamar - euphoria
95

Drake called him short one too many times and got fuckin cooked

bbno$ - lil' freak
30

It's so fucking annoying even for him

Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - Total Reality
50

See, on one hand I can absolutely see the vision on this record, and the passion. The blends of bands like Sex Pistols, King Gizzard and BCNR creates an interesting experience that ABSOLUTELY goes off live. However, I feel like the actual execution in a recorded format just doesn't quite work as well. A lot of the material on here feels really scattershot in ways that sometime work but often feel messy. A lot of the singing especially feels way looser than it should and doesn't give the kind of ... read more

Shannen James - Patchwork
70

A really lovely back and forth blend of indie synthpop and pop country, it wasn't anything top tier but it was just over all solid

Chinozo - The Hollows
65

Chinozo is probably my favourite mainstream Vocaloid producer behind Inabakumori. From some of the more angular dance pop to the gamey production on the Kafu-centred cuts on the flower-centred cuts, it has a bunch of super fun cuts on here and doesn't always feel like it's trying to recycle Goodbye Declaration over and over again, FLYER is the closest track on here to that. There's a nice variety of stuff here. Plenty of driving dance stuff that isn't reinventing the wheel but always plenty of ... read more

vai5000 - eimi
80

Overall a great atmospheric electronic record, it feels like the experience of specifically Unfold off of Porter Robinson's Nurture drawn out into a full project. My biggest issue is at times it feels like distortion is laid on too thick for too long in a way that loses some of its impact, such as on tracks like human ego or parts of left turn. Otherwise it feels like I'm being enveloped by the ocean listening to this album it's great.

Mori Calliope - タイド [Tide]
60

It's fun but not a track I'd go out of my way to listen to more than once. It's got that similar theatrical quality of a Lin Manuel Miranda showtune and I mean that in a positive way, which isn't a sound I ever expected, however I feel like there isn't much of a core here that's hooking me in particular.

Porter Robinson - Knock Yourself Out XD
80

In 2013, Lorde release the hit single Royals, a song satirising the attempts of multimillionaire popstars trying to appear relateable while in reality being totally out of touch, fundamentally reshaping pop as we know it. In 2024 Porter Robinsin released Knock Yourself Out XD, a-

Ekko Astral - pink balloons
75

If you enjoy the song "would I get cancelled if I wrote a song called "if you were a man you would be so cancelled"" by Illuminati Hotties, you'll probably live this album. Strange lyrics, use of internet slang that feels ironic yet unironic at the same time and bizzare instrumental palettes at times. The mixing across the album is a bit hit or miss, I was noticing the vocals getting buried at times or needing to change the volume between songs, and it's very much YMMV with ... read more

Eunuchs - Harbour Century
40

If you enjoyed Harbour Century by Eunuchs, you should try:
Ripping a nang and walking down the inner west suburbs of Melbourne on a Saturday night. It's about as cohesive an experience.

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