Damn this was trash. The singles were good but everything else in this album was worthless garbage. This album just feels completely lifeless. I get that Joji's sound is vibey and atmospheric and that's fine, but I don't think he succeeded in creating anything even remotely engaging.

Not quite as good as I remembered it. Even after BRAT released, I maintained that how i'm feeling now was my favourite Charli XCX album. Upon re-listening, however, I might need to reconsider that stance. The first few songs are brilliant, but the album lost me in the middle, then picked me back up towards the end. Tracks like detonate, enemy, c2.0, and party 4 u were pretty dead upon return, and prevent me from viewing the album as truly great overall. This album still has a bunch of ... read more

More tracks than minutes, Bad Brains’ self-titled level production, an average of 1 intelligible word per song… this is the ultimate 80’s hardcore punk album. Sometimes merely looking and playing the part is problematic within itself, though. “Legless Bull” flies by so fast there’s nothing to hold on to.

Controversial given the massive popularity of Not Like Us, but I don't think Kendrick is that good at doing a "traditional" banger. The snarl voice and repetitious choruses just don't do it for me. tv off is an exception to this, but every other attempted banger like wacced out murals, squabble up, and gnx I could probably have done without. Besides that there are some all-time-great Kendrick tracks here; reincarnated and heart pt. 6 in particular. Overall this was still ... read more

GROUPLOVE's "Never Trust A Happy Song" is like a musical waterpark; a collection of carefree Indie Pop/Rock designed for easy listening and feelgood vibes. After the first few tracks, however, the "dumb fun" gets a bit too dumb and crosses over from being irreverent to being nondescript. Still worth a listen as there are some genuinely great tracks here, just few and far between in a sea of mediocrity.

Wisp's 'Pandora' does a good job of fulfilling that dreary, yearnful contemporary aesthetic. The rather poetic lyrics are a clear enough indication of this, but unfortunately the instrumental side of this EP lags behind. The first 2-3 tracks have some cool moments, but after that all that's left is a fairly uneventful, albeit vibey trip that makes for some solid background music, but doesn't really offer anything notably creative or even exceptional.

The highest praise I can offer here is that there are some tracks that I probably wouldn't turn off if they came on the radio. However, the majority of this is generic, bloated, and boring.

While tracks like Blue Moth Cloud Shadow and Dandelions show the heights La Luz are capable of, the remainder of 'News of the Universe' just lacks any semblance of memorability or uniqueness.

This review was going to be a quip about how I would've chosen this album to soundtrack my cheesy 80's prom night; and then the song about a minor committing incest with their sibling twice their age started and well... that was the end of that.

The Murlocs exhume two dead genres -- Surf and 60's psych rock, only to find they should have left them dead and buried right where they found them.

Despite having made somewhat of a brand out of being more involved in their music's production, (G)I-DLE's 2nd full album is the most mass-produced, factory-made record i've heard in a while. Visions is the only good song here, with an actual interesting instrumental and a chorus that isn't just the same word/phrase repeated ad nauseam. The rest is the embodiment of every negative ascription people have of K-Pop; derivative sound, repetitious choruses, dull instrumentals, senseless genre ... read more

Quite possibly the most 80's album, ever. This album follows a very simple formula for all of its tracks: groovy guitar riff, upbeat/motivating lyrics, bombastic chorus, vocal harmonies, and throw some horns in there every so often. A decent margin of it has never left the year it was made in, but the ones that aren't incredibly dated are solid anthems and an easy listen.

Haru Nemuri's coming to town - and i've got tickets. Consequently I thought i'd do my due diligence as a concert-goer and check out all the parts of her discography that i've yet to listen to, beginning with this. There's something so dystopic about Haru Nemuri's early sound that I adore, the tracks here give me strong images of different media i've engaged with that carry that tone; Ghost in the Shell, Primordia, VA-11 Hall-A, Blade Runner and others. The machine-like trudging of the synths, ... read more

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I don't even mind some of the instrumentals on this, but Kevin just does absolutely nothing with them, boring us to tears with low energy, low effort snoozefests. The first 5 tracks or so are the only redeemable cuts on this whole thing, while just as confusing directionally as the rest of the album, at least Kevin was trying something different. From then on, Kevin becomes extremely lazy and just settles on making unimpressionable and dull "vibe" music that ... read more

Never listened to AJR prior to this album, and yeah... if this is their best record, I couldn't imagine their worst.

I can get behind this. While i'd say I prefer the darker and more sullen and introspective nature of "to hell with it," this feels like a celebration and confirmation of PinkPantheress' transition into the mainstream, and for that I can only applaud her meteoric rise. Adopting a more pop-centric sound to pair with her DnB roots, PinkPantheress continues to deliver on the promise of her potential.

Poppy's "Zig" is not bad by any means, but it's far from the transformative, genre-blending work that saw her rise to cult success in the past 3-5 years. There are some good jams here, but it's no mistake that the better tracks on this album tend to be the most experimental. Unfortunately, Poppy appears to make a concerted effort to reject that part of her sound in favour of making decent but unremarkable alt-pop. I'll still look out for new releases, but I would be lying if I said my ... read more

It's like 1989 but slightly worse. Much like the other (Taylor's Version)'s, the changes to each track are so miniscule to where if I played tracks from this and their original counterpart one after the other it'd take Daredevil's enhanced hearing abilities to differentiate them. What is noticeable is the flatness in Taylor's delivery, I just don't get the same energy from this as I do from the original, that could be for myriad reasons, rather with myself and my rose-tinted glasses or with the ... read more

Huh, who knew that sticking to what you're good at would yield positive results. If Emily Haines hadn't already solidified herself as one of the most underappreciated vocalists of our generation through Metric's previous work, then she certainly did here, single-handedly turning some tracks from catatonic to copacetic. Metric's Formentera II offers everything you'd expect from Metric and that is fine by me, high quality at-times dreamy indie rock... give it a listen it may surprise you.

Party at Troye’s house. This album is just packed to the brim with certified bangers, the production is top-notch, Troye offers a ton of personality and the energy is always high. It does tire itself out and becomes a bit too played out towards the end but overall “Something To Give Each Other” is a really fun time.