imm geeked as fuck but tihs song actually has me teary eyed like this is profound and beautiful

i know this is a site where people talk about music but can you guys shut the fuck up

chloe burbank but kinda not nearly as good

i was honestly looking forwards to this album, more than maybe any other joji album. even after the singles and short ass song lengths were announced, i was still excited, mostly because the singles had so many cool ideas. plus, the structure reminded me so much of his early SoundCloud days, which is easily my favorite era of his music. chloe burbank volume 1, despite not even being a real, official album, sounds strangely cohesive as this collection ... read more

i would write a more detailed review for this, but i’ve been depressed as shit lately and i don’t really have the energy for it. sorry. pretend i wrote like a novel here it would make me feel better

that being said, good ep. the first track is…kinda just fine, but the last two are fucking incredible. i do love some of the big crescendos and cinematic stuff in vanished and idmthy, but i’ve always thought quad worked best in the quieter moments. and the last two songs ... read more

sometimes i prop the cd of this up next to my bed and pretend he’s sleeping with me

needs more bass, i almost heard myself think

i like it, but i hope he does more with this sound because i honestly don’t think rage music was meant to handle this much distortion 😭 not that it’s like, impossible to make a rage album sound intense or anything, but a lot of these synths are so goddamn blown out and peaking so much that it sounds like the song is spazzing out and dying. maybe i’ll get used to that, but right now it makes this a hard listen in pockets. i think ... read more

(deep internet ranking #3)

genuinely just a bunch of bullshit. one of the secondaries for this album is "sound effects" and honestly i'm suprised that isn't a main descriptor because this shit is legitimately just a bunch of sounds happening

james ferraro is pretty beloved in certain music nerd circles, and i'm admittedly only familiar with a handful of his albums, so i am glad to get the opportunity to listen to more of his stuff. a lot more, considering him and his ... read more

(deep internet ranking #2)

three minutes into fire and earth i gained the ability to ascend beyond this plane of reality and i used it to go back in time and prevent myself from ever eating pork

yeah this album is fucking insane. everyone says that the backstory of mahmoud awad being a time traveler here to bestow upon us music made in the year 9000 is a joke but i trust this man with my fucking life and all the lives i will live beyond this mortal coil إن شاء الله يرزقنا 300 ... read more

(deep internet ranking #1 - original list linked after the review)

new little mini series thing (?) since i've wanted to go through the rate your music "deep internet chart" but i was kind of offput by the task of listening to 100 albums. but i guess that ends today! going to try and listen to 1-2 of these a day and write a little mini review for each. hopefully by the end of all this i can find a handful of obscure oddities that i can keep in regular rotation, especially ... read more

the only “comedy rap” album that hasn’t made me want to jump off a bridge

so many annoying ass white boys try way too hard to be funny with lyrical spiritual miracle ass rhymes and annoying autotune or whatever but none of them have been as effortlessly funny as the bbl drizzy flip he did where he just said “kendrick lamar drake :D” for 2 minutes straight

i’ve been depressive lately and after weeks of searching i’ve finally found an album that gives me the courage to take my own life

easily the coolest album of the year. not my favorite, or anything, but easily the most likeable. i know so many motherfuckers who had never heard a danny brown solo track squeal when they saw the announced feature list - for that alone, it kind of HAS to be good. i don’t even know if i would be allowed to dislike it, my biology wouldn’t let me.

some tracks are a bit underbaked or don’t go as abrasive/energetic as i feel like they should, but ehhhhhh minor complaints. ... read more

no fucking way there’s a song called “and then the chuds came” on here bro

obligatory “fuck alexis marshall” aside, this is quite good. it’s a little short and sporadic for my taste, but holy shit i’m such a sucker for these emo violence style dissonant ass riffs, they’re so deranged sounding and i love it. there’s so many pitch bends on them that they sound like they’re melting, like the songs are these shambling goop monsters ... read more

the two actual joji originals are solid - granted, both are just repurposed soundcloud/chloe burbank tracks, but I’m glad they have a home.

i don’t want to waste my time is pretty decent, and i like the weird scream near the end - it really breaks out of the repetitive melody and adds to the weird despairing tone it’s trying to go for. i miss when joji would do stuff like that. still, though, it loses points for repetition. i think he’s literally playing one chord the ... read more

i was talking to a friend of mine the other day who mentioned a book he had read about how people become mentally trapped in time after a traumatic event, like someone who lost a family member as a kid will always feel deep down like a lost child who just found out the people they love can die. i’ve been thinking about it a lot, because i see it in most of the people i know. they seem so afraid that they’re not able to grow up that they don’t even recognize how much ... read more

maybe i’m insane but this is wayyyy better than ambient 1, the shorter songs make this album sound more like a collection of vignettes which i like a lot more. sounds like sitting in a zen garden while enjoying a nice breeze, it’s been helping a lot getting me through midterms

it's good, but the albums that it inspired did a lot of what i enjoy about this album much better. for me at least, ambient music is often about the world that the album puts you in. some make me feel utterly alone, floating through space as the weight of the void crushes me, some make me feel warm and full of love, some make me feel like i'm wandering in a frozen landscape. it's a genre that's VERY dependent on the timbre and texture of whatever instruments are being used, ... read more

forgive my gushing, a lot of this review might be because of recency bias, but i’m absolutely obsessed with this album right now. this isone of the most bizarre, yet beautiful, yet unpleasant, yet gut-wrenchingly honest albums i’ve ever heard, and the fact that barely anyone knows about it is wild to me.

i hadn’t found out about zac pennington or his bizarre, depraved synth pop band parenthetical girls until i found a song of theirs by complete accident on a split with xiu ... read more

motherfucker writes melodies like a baroque era composer then sings about railing 7 girls over top

music discourse makes me feel like i’m going fucking insane man. this is what we’re making a fuss about?

the cover looks pretty good, i get that it’s not “ooohhhh spooky” like some people wanted, but it’s very immediately eye-catching and honest to sabrina’s vision. this is a dirty pop album about how having sex is fun, and the cover fits that. the music isn’t quite as immediately iconic for me, but like…idk man, i liked it well enough? is ... read more