Start listening to Wallsocket for the fascinating narratives, keep listening to Wallsocket for the extraordinary soundscapes.
If all music ever made started sounding like Mercurial World sounded like I wouldn’t be complaining.
Fishmonger is a fun slice of hyperpop infused with 90s-era Beck indie rock that improves definitively in the second half.
There’s a song on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY called SELF-SABOTAGE and indeed that seems to be something Waterparks are adept at. Pretty much every element of this album is in some way ruined by an overly cheesy lyric or insane production choice. Easily the best moments are when they aren’t overloading the songs with sound effects and lyrics about being baptised in spit. Unfortunately those moments are few and far between- making the sickly-sweet INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY a strikeout.
UK alt-country/indie quartet Divorce come through with the blissful Heady Metal, a marked improvement on 2022’s Get Mean and actually one of my favourite EPs of the year.
Coconuts has now been in my head for 3 days straight, and I guess that counts for something.
There’s nothing worthwhile to be found beyond For All The Dogs’ lame features and wallpaper production, it’s mostly just 1 hour and 25 minutes of Drake at his least tolerable.
Hak Baker pours his heart out over 16 tracks on the contemplative yet instantly likeable World’s End FM.
For my money Evil Friends is one of the most underrated indie albums of the 2010s. The occasional missteps and overly hipster-ish sentiments are drowned out by basically every other element on the album, such as Danger Mouse’s excellent production, taking the vibrant psychedelic sound of P.TM’s last record and turning it into something that sounds a little more of-the-time but nonetheless retains all of its charm. For the most part, the lyrics are very good too, particularly on the ... read more
Typically when an artist gets drastically worse in quality it’s over a long period of time and you can’t really pinpoint the exact release where they suddenly fell off. However, Oliver Tree & Little Big’s Welcome To The Internet EP is a rare case where you actually can, with regards to Oliver Tree anyway. The EP itself is Oliver’s worst and it’s not even close- a selection of four utterly pointless, crass and obnoxious tracks featuring tacky, extremely dated ... read more
The Silver Chord isn’t quite at the level of PetroDragonic Apocalypse, but it’s good fun nonetheless.
Pink Friday 2 is a prime example of how so many modern pop albums are so often ruined by ludicrous interpolations and unnecessarily bloated tracklists. Seriously, cut the album in half and you’d have a decent albeit underwhelming record but as is it’s a complete letdown just because of how much filler there is and how baffling and straight up terrible some of said filler songs are.
All of the engaging storytelling that made How To Be A Human Being is absent from Dreamland, replaced with some botched introspection and an attempt at a vapourwave aesthetic that is only vaguely realised. At least the production’s still nice.
Glass Animals hit their sweet spot with How To Be A Human Being. They take the parts of ZABA I enjoyed the most- the album’s refreshingly vibrant instrumentals- and combine that with some greatly improved storytelling abilities, creating a brilliant, focused, poignant indie pop record which draws you into its world and keeps you invested in it.
Pop Champagne by Jim Jones & Ron Browz featuring Juelz Santana is certainly a song called Pop Champagne, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t by Jim Jones & Ron Browz- and to claim it doesn’t feature Jeulz Santana would be straight-up misinformation!
The Ballad Of Darren has its moments- the first track is excellent- but there are pockets of the album which just don’t interest or capture me at all.
Christmas Unicorn is a 12-minute holiday epic; a beautifully fragile, ethereal kaleidoscopic and complex track which might be one of the greatest Christmas songs ever made.
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