The song transitions, the vocal effects, and the Björk outro on Wipe Yo Nose—this album is a love letter to digicore, rage, and the larger underground.

It takes all the things that are great about Digicore and Rage and polishes them beautifully.

I love to see an underground project with this level of care put into it; every single song feels like it got an equal amount of attention and mastering.

The only thing that I can truly complain about is that I didn’t have a Digicore ... read more

In the future, I hope to take a look at the entire project, but for now, I'm content with listening to how he gives those fat pigs their facials.

Ethereal music with edgy lyrics—how could I not love it?

This is a great album because it is the longest Lil Shine album, not because it contains the best Lil Shine songs (that would be Lovesick in my opinion), though it does contain some.

With an artist like Shine, who does not have a very large discography and who is also facing various federal charges that could risk his ability to release music entirely, a thirty-four-minute project of his work means something entirely different to his career than other artists.

In his career, he has two other ... read more

It's certainly a Shine release.

It's fine, not as good as his previous two albums, but this one still starts interesting, withering off slowly.

A bit disappointed with how, with more producers, it sounds more flat than his last two LPs.

Not much to say, 70.

Some of the best of the Pluggnb genre, certainly one of Shine's most solid works.

The producer lineup in this album "shines" in a way that gives Shine a lot to work off of.

My only real main complaint is how short it is, but I understand that not every release is going to fit the conventional standards of music.

My favorite song has to be Mistakes; it sounds like something straight out of an early 2010s pop song but remixed to fit the Pluggnb style and Shine charm.

The charm of breakbeat and chillout music is that it could have the most simple structure and musical progression and still beat out most musical endeavors.

It's rare that I hear a song that I am deeply infatuated with yet I don't have the words to describe the feelings it gives me.

Frou Frou has given me the will to open up a thesaurus and seek this emotion and attain a PhD in English.
(Jk!)

Cloud rap incarnate as a music video.

Too addicting to listen to and watch.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy—even the title of the album is alluring!

This album is a bit dated, with it being around sixteen years old now. However, despite it being dated, I don't think it makes it a bad thing, especially when it can remind us when Kanye West was at the height of his hip-hop career and his drama with Taylor Swift at the VMAs. Some good pop-culture nostalgia never hurt anybody!

This album is a very artistic endeavor set off by Kanye West that pays off, with ... read more

I would write a review on Life Is Strange's OST, but I would get way too nostalgic and sad.

So, my thoughts of this album in only twenty two words to match the twenty two songs in the OST:

The best indie folk and rock video game soundtrack of all time. I love this game and all the songs so much.

"... Video game OSTs, that is what brings healing into my soul..." -Buzz Lightyear

In all seriousness though, this OST is really great.

I remember playing this game back in the day and loving every single level due to how well-made each of the tracks sounded.

Nowadays, I'm not even that big of a synthwave head, but this stuff is still gold as hell.

You can't tell me, if you've played this game, you never sat on the menu screen and just listened to The Green ... read more

I like this Kanye a lot; I'm still sad about how he turned out.

The College Dropout is a very funny, catchy, and conscious album.

Last Call might be the best Kanye West song of all time.

Kanye West's fursuit is also pretty cool, I guess.

The Velvet Underground & Nico is so queer. (In a good way)

This album has a lot of roots in the queer art world of New York, especially with Andy Warhol as one of the leading producers on this album.

Andy Warhol was a gay individual and large figurehead of the downtown avant-garde art movement, a movement that platformed many queer artists.

Lou Reed, one of the lead singers on this record, is a bisexual, and Nico has had rumors in the past of being a bisexual too.

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I think that a lot of the charm was lost somewhere in the two years between Who Really Cares and Death of a Party Girl.

The instrumentals and singing got downgraded; that's it.

The singing and instrumentals feel disconnected at times, like the singer doesn't know how to sing over the song.

Nothing overtly terrible, just a clear downgrade; wouldn't listen to this a second time.

A lot of the things I said about French Exit apply to this album, so I won't repeat myself too much.

Misogynistic songwriting (presumably as a character or satirically), pretty alright instrumentation, not bad but not A-tier for sure.

It's a fine record, but there's not much to say, and I was expecting more of a progression between his last album and this one; they sound basically the same, barring stepping away from bedroom pop a little more.

Good.

French Exit is a very good-sounding record but lacks a little in substance.

Of course, not everything needs to be a profession of something larger than itself or overtly boundary pushing, but this just sounds like a misogynist singing over B-tier neo-psychedelia pop beats.

I'll admit, it's interesting to listen to regardless. I know TV Girl isn't actually misogynistic and that the singer is simply playing a character for the song, and it works out, I think.

French Exit is ... read more

At the mere mention of Illinois, my heart swells; this album feels like old wisdom through a young heart.

The historical content of the album is very interesting to listen to and actually prompted me into searching about Illinois' history despite it not even being my state.

This album is just so truthful, so emotionally open, and instrumentally interesting that I can't help but fall in love with it.

Sufjan Stevens does an amazing job at painting the image of Illinois, from ... read more

I think Mellon Collie is a wonderful album with many great characteristics but that suffers from a crucial issue.

It really wants to be a double album really, really badly.

This gives a boatload of musical content, some of which is much better than others.

Having Tales of a Scorched Earth come right after one of the best songs in the album is also just jarring and is very dissonant.

In this, I suppose Mellon Collie is like a gem mine; you're more than likely to find valuables, but ... read more

Kid A provides a very unique turn from what Radiohead had offered in the past.

While Radiohead was riding the success of the rock genre, they combined it with electronic and ambient elements and made it something greater than their previous projects.

Thom Yorke's voice adapts surprisingly well to the electronic instrumentals; it's as if he was always naturalized to them.
(I only cringed on Morning Bell; that song itself took off a whole point for me.)

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I only like OK Computer when it’s Airbag, Paranoid Android, when Subterranean Homesick Alien and Exit Music (For a Film) go rlly fast, and Let Down.

In all seriousness though, the first half is great, but the latter half of this album feels kind of lackluster compared to the beginning six.

It's OK Computer; obviously I'm going to like it. I just wish I could like the final six songs as much as I like the first six.

(Still goated though)

Frank Ocean cooked, unfortunately not everyone came for this meal.

In my opinion, channel ORANGE is only a tad bit worse than Blonde; it's a shame how people seem to only care about "Thinkin Bout You" when there are so many bangers on here.

I also feel like channel ORANGE is a better concept album than Blonde; it truly feels like Frank is some rich, spoiled little shit from Africa, referencing Sierra Leone and the Pyramids, painting Africa through his words.

People seem to ... read more