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Amazing sound design, ethereal and rhythmic and a great sonic story from start to finish. Very immersive in how it moves you through the journey. Exceeded my expectations completely, one of my lowkey favs for 2024 so far.

It's good - overwhelmingly satisfactory. A decent pop-punk album that doesn't do anything special. I can see myself revisiting a few of the stand-out songs when I'm in a pop-punk mood, but overall the album isn't overly memorable. And to be honest, met my expectations pretty spot-on.

This album goes absolutely bonkers. It's incredibly consistent, and each track flows into the next, creating a cohesive atmosphere and story to the album. Even with such consistency and cohesion, there's still enough variation between trap, dnb, and bass genre switching to be a really engaging listen.

Considering this is Juelz' debut album, I'm so excited to see how his career progresses. This dude's gonna be a star no doubt.

Highlights: pretty much everything, but especially - Stacks, Rewind ... read more

Ninajirachi is good at experimenting with different genres while remaining consistent to her distinctive sound. A real gem of the Australian EDM scene right now.

Favs: Undo U, Kota on the Plane

I want this album to step on me.

Violent, dark, gnarly and full of attitude. Great music to be beaten up to.

Some tracks (esp. Do It So Good, Sonic Dog Tag), remind me of the kind of music you might find on a mid 2000s racing game - and I mean that in the best way.

Highlights: Bang Ya Head, Venom, Sonic Dog Tag, Do It So Good, Minigun, Death Rattle
Lowlights: Feral, Modern Love & S.A.D don't hold up to the strong start of the album, but are still really decent

Definitely the best RTJ project, and currently in my top five favourite albums of all time. It's intense, emotional, political, and epic. Few do political hiphop the way RTJ do. Killer Mike's tone and delivery is relentless, and El-P's production throughout the entire record is masterful. Their chemistry is unmatched and the way they bounce off each other is contagious. The start of this album is particularly powerful, from the opener, Jeopardy, all the way to All Due Respect. While the final ... read more

I listened to this immediately after Illusory Tracks but I had to take a break since I genuinely didn't have enough energy to listen to them back-to-back. It's an experience.

Using Illusory Tracks as a reference, this is darker, more ambitious, and feels... illegal, but that doesn't mean it's better. Sound design is absolutely bonkers, particularly on Eprom's tracks, which I think I prefer overall.

I love the mess, don't get me wrong, and I get that the mess is the point aesthetically, but I ... read more

Fun, chaotic, experimental, energetic. Sound design on another plane of existence. Record is likely best enjoyed in a dark room full of flashing lights and sweaty strangers.

The opener, Operator, is legitimately one of the most banging high-energy experimental EDM tracks I've heard for a long time. Brilliant use of bass and breakbeat.

This has slowly but surely become one of my favourite projects of 2023.

It's grown on me, particularly over the past couple of weeks, as I find myself constantly returning to it. It's the perfect balance of static and dynamic; feeling consistent enough to be thematic but with has ample peaks and valleys to feel exciting and varied. Brilliant production and a seamless melding of drum and bass with soulful pop vocals. It's emotional, dealing with themes of love, rejection and feeling inadequate. ... read more

Flow, bars, lyricism, storytelling, beats, production, killer features, catchy hooks; The Forever Story is a complete package. In my mind, this cements JID as one of the best of the current era, and at the top of his game.

This record has so much replayability and is an instant timeless classic. It's one of the top albums of 2022 and a contender for hiphop album of the young decade.

Highlights: Money, Raydar, Dance Now, Stars, Bruddanem, Sistanem, Can't Punk Me
Lowlights: None

I can see why so many people absolutely adore Taylor Swift, and why she's arguably the most popular pop star on the planet at the time of writing this review. It's also worth noting how respected she is within the industry itself.

I've always been skeptical, partly because I've associated her with either radio-friendly pop songs or very 'singer-songwriter' vibes, neither of which suit my tastes. Midnights was recommended to me as a T-Swift record that is more aligned to my tastes, and I think ... read more

A fun pop album with great lyricism and fun, simplistic production. I will say, while it's understandable given Lorde was like 15 when she wrote it, the themes are dated when reviewing the album as an adult. However, remembering those themes with retrospective nostalgia can help make the album thematically relevant at any age.

Iconic: Team, Royals
Other favs: Glory and Gore, White Teeth Teens, A World Alone
Lowlights: Still Sane

Definitely of it's era but shows a clear trajectory for Lorde's ... read more

Look, it's not a bad album, but too many songs sound way too similar for it to be engaging in any meaningful way. It has some great moments, and very good songwriting and lyricism, but most tracks are instantly forgettable. Feels very formulaic. Arctic Monkeys found a sound that sells well and churned out enough tracks to make an album.

Exception is 505, which is a masterpiece with a very unique feel and energy.

The best OST of all time. IFYKYK

Whyte Fang is the dark, gritty alter ego of Australian EDM producer and DJ Alex Sholler, better known as Alison Wonderland. The Whyte Fang project technically pre-dates Alison Wonderland, but was put on the backburner after the latter's international success. Whyte Fang is a separate creative outlet. Free from the established polish of Alison Wonderland, Alex is free to explore a darker side of her creativity.

Most of GENESIS was written over the course of a year during Alex's pregnancy, and ... read more

Even without the nostalgia as a bonus, this is an amazing synthpop record. Lauren Mayberry's soft voice is lifted up by layers and layers of ascending synths, creating epic crescendos that explode with infectious energy.

Catchy lyrical earworms and simple-but-effective synth riffs make a perfect recipe for a classic pop-indietronica record. Highlights on the record are The Mother We Share, Gun, Lies, Recover, Night Sky, and Lungs. But nearly every song on the record has its moment that ... read more

A fun, sonically interesting pop album. I enjoyed some of the house-inspired instrumentals but did feel like few risks were taken on this record. More aesthetic differentiation from track to track would have been well received. Although I did enjoy the regular use of a vocoder in some tracks.

Highlights were Constant Repeat, Move Me, and Yuck. The two tracks with features, New Shapes (feat. Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek), and Beg For You (Rina Sawayama), were also bops. Some ... read more

It's a truly fantastic pop album. It's different, it's abstract. Caroline's voice is angelic and floaty but also pierces through you when she wants it to. It's well produced and takes lots of sonic and aesthetic risks that largely pay off.

It starts off strong, and I love three of the first four tracks. I also love the drum and bass elements of I Believe and Fly To You, which are paired back-to-back in the middle of the album. To close, it finishes strong with Smoke and Billions. Both have ... read more

Maybe it's that this album didn't live up to my incredibly high expectations as an old school Paramore fan, but it just didn't grab me. The song writing is good, the instrumentals are good, the lyrics are good, it's a good album. But it's not a great album, and while there are fleeting moments of the sound I love about past Paramore (see: The News, Running Out Of Time, Figure 8), it's not consistent enough. I'm glad they have developed a contemporary sound, but it's not the direction I was ... read more