Not bad.

Martin Garrix's music, for many, is what comes to mind when they think of all the reasons they don't like EDM. Average vocals, if there are any at all. Repetitive melodies and simplistic four note drops. And in general, a gaping void wherever creativity might have flourished.

This isn't an EP that's going to steal the hearts and minds of people who have that perspective. But for people who can look past these flaws and allow themselves to enjoy Garrix-style electro house for what it ... read more

"Don't play with me bitch, play playstation, it's safer."

First, a foreword. As a general rule while using this website, I always try and back up any rating I give an album with a corresponding review. I think it's important when rating albums on their quality, to be able to articulate the thoughts and experiences of the listener that led to them producing a scaled number that they will use to compare any given artistic work against the work of others. But for a while, this was an ... read more

It amazes me to think that when I first listened to this three years ago, I detested it. I don't know how it could be the case but sure enough, I distinctly remember hoping I never heard a lot of these songs again.

I guess that's not strictly the case - I do know why, and it's the same flaw that I believe still holds this album back from the stratosphere. But this is an excellent album.

A total piece, the album is a fully-structured journey through Tyler's homosexual love affair, from its ... read more

So, time to review what many consider to be the greatest hip-hop album ever made. I hope I'll do it justice.

Firstly, the song-by-song.

The Illest Villains is a sick intro the the album and really sets the demeanour that the album intends to take. It's nothing too fancy, not too hot, not too cold, it's just in the right spot to start us off appropriately.

Accordion is Madvillain's most famous song, and understandably so. Without being necessarily a perfect song, as I'm sure such a thing ... read more

When I first saw the user score for this album, and read the reviews, I was already ready to defend Token. I've had a close eye on him since he was first making noise at 17, and as such I've gotten used to hearing most of the points that his detractors hold against him, unjustly in my opinion.

"Great, just what we need, another Eminem. A white boy who raps fast, that's like, super corny."

To which I was prepared to say: sure man, the last thing that hip hop needs is someone who ... read more

What is it about the insistence of music critics that they must give female pop-rap albums good reviews? I get the empowerment angle but man, can we please call out average music when it appears. There's plenty of worthy female pop rappers to go around without putting this sort of stuff on a pedestal.

First, let's address the 777 monstrosities (the songs), starting with Pt. 1. "Top two, and, bitch, I ain't number two"? You've got to be joking. Megan Thee Stallion would eat this ... read more

This was fun, but man there are some holes in this one. Firstly, the underperformers - @Louis13 may be on the money when he notes that JID and Cole are head and shoulders above the rest of Dreamville, but Lute, Earthgang and Bas are still capable of much more than we saw in this mixtape. Of those three, Bas was the worst offender.

Secondly, can someone please explain to me why, oh why, did they make the end of "Starting 5" so good (probably the best bit of the album), but the ... read more

Alright. Let's get straight to the elephant in the room - Rich Brian has absolute rubbish coming out of his mouth at all times. At all times! Without further ado, lets feature some of my favourite examples from this EP.

"Coochie got magic, I thought she was Hermion; Uh, I meant Hermione, uh"
"I'm a star from the start, they be callin' me Patrick; In a white girl mouth like a giant tarantula"
"Money been multiplyin' like a nympho"
"Mimosa with my old girl, ... read more

In The Last Dance, Pt 2, Emmit Fenn treats us to some groovy beats that are ultimately held back by their repetitiveness and incoherent lyrics. Fenn reminds me a lot of Lamorn in this respect - there's plenty of talent to be observed on the production side of things, but he'd really benefit from seeking out a songwriter to give his songs at least SOME coherent meaning. Perhaps he might also consider a vocalist that doesn't require having their voice constantly distorted to be palatable. ... read more

The great albums of our time are usually praised for, among other things, their direction, purpose, and for their songs to form a coherent, larger project that is of greater quality than the sum of their individual parts. They are more than just a collection of songs.

This? Well, this is the opposite. This, ladies and gentlemen, is just a collection of songs. Some of them are good! Some of them are bad... And some of them are average. Add them all together, and what do you get?

...Slightly ... read more

Could have been better, that's for sure. I feel like a lot of these songs were makeable shots that MGK has bricked at various points within them along the way. It's almost like each track features a new possible way of screwing itself up that you might not have considered. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit and he's just not capable of making this genre work, but I've heard him do similar pop punk styles and pull it off in a much better fashion than he has here.

Just inexplicable lyrics, ... read more

I've found this to be a tough one to assess. Firstly, my friends absolutely love and worhip the legend of Kavinsky, so I've had them in my ear a fair bit about just how good this album is. As peer pressure often does, whether we notice it or not, they've really made me WANT to love this album, and to be fair, I do like it.

But I don't love it. And I don't think this is the album of the year that they think it is, nor do I think it's the EDM album of the year.

Kavinsky deserves credit for ... read more

Behold, the long awaited hip hop album of the year for 2022.

When I commented on the Griselda boys' albums that I couldn't wait for Denzel Curry to blow them out of the water, this was not what I had expected. What I had expected was an album akin to ZUU; fire, pace and aggression, a collection of creative hits that would energise a sleepy crowd and generate gigantic mosh pits where none had existed moments earlier.

What we got instead was something totally different. Denzel has slowed ... read more

This is, without exception, the most disturbing collection of music I think I've ever listened to. Under no circumstances would I recommend someone listen to this while under the influence of hallucinogenic substances.- hypothetically, of course.

"너 땜에 맘이 맘이 맘이 맘이 괴로워요" is about as placid as the album gets, and there is something about this song that makes it extremely addictive. At this stage, the retro style video game noises are not sufficiently loud ... read more

First thing's first, I have absolutely got to call out my blatant bias on this one. SG Lewis is, and has been since I discovered him, my favourite edm artist in existence. I don't know what it is that he does, but his music has chemically bonded with me and the events throughout my life and consequently in some respects, his music is and will be a part of who I am, forever.

So as you can tell, my rating for this album is absolutely not to be trusted.

"Time", "Feed The ... read more

Assessing a bass house album like this one is always going to come down ultimately to one quality - does this album pump me up to dance, or rave, or work out?

Well, sort of. But I have to say, this is pretty disappointing work from Wax Motif, who is an artist capable of dropping excellent singles at any given time. Like most edm artists, it's just another story when they try to put it all together into an album. And Wax? Well he's tried to put it into a seventeen song album no less. If he'd ... read more

I can't review this properly due to the language barrier, but all I can say is that this album makes me wish I spoke Spanish. It is, without exception, the only album written in another language that has successfully made it into my playlist without my understanding of what is even being said.

Very, very impressive. I think I'm going to be studying up. My rating should be interpreted as what it is like to listen to this album without the lyrics.

*Edit: Amusingly, I've just noted that I'd ... read more

I'm not quite sure where to begin, after reading some of these reviews. "Earworm territory." Yeah, probably. "Fun". I think so. "One of Charli's better albums." Possibly.

But what I can say for sure, is that there's no fucking way that this album should be synonymous with "diamond experimentation", "pop trailblazer" or "a more experimental chapter." If there's one thing I would never accuse this album of, it is being creative. And ... read more

This is a tough one to come back to try and assess. Much like "Bucket List", "CARE FOR ME" was an album in which I listened to multiple songs on repeat during the year of its release, but failed to listen to the whole thing in one go. I'll never get to know how this album might have impacted me, and whether things might have been different if I had gone into the second half of 2018 having listened to this first.

On one hand, there's no doubt that this album finds Saba in a ... read more

ATTLAS has definitely tried to do something interesting with this album - whether he has succeeded however, is another matter entirely. (Spoilers: he hasn't).

Waterbug kicks off this process with a drum and vocoder mix that do not operate in 4x4, which is extremely unusual for edm, and successfully creates an unusual song. Last Walk is indeed also, a song, and you could even listen to it without feeling unpleasant - given that you're unlikely to feel anything while listening to it at all. ... read more