C418 - Minecraft - Volume Alpha
45

Hey, to any reader: this little review turned more into a mini think piece than a review of this soundtrack - if you want the tl;dr, i think it's fine. Inoffensive ambient music that slightly annoys me from how I've heard the music

Okay thanks

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The review:

Alpha is decent, nothing amazing but neither terrible for the ambient genre. Imo, it does it's job fine enough as a soundtrack music for minecraft, but imo, in either context as a standalone ambient album ... read more

Céline Dion - Falling Into You
NR

No rating yet as I have not given this album enough time to sit with me - but I write this to pour a little love onto "because you loved me"

I'm not sure what exactly this genre of 80s and 90s pop pseudo rnb ballads are called, but this song is the apex of that sound

One of the first song's I've ever heard, and my own fathers favourite song which I would hear often as a child, which; now that I grow up, I always listen to whenever I want to remember how much I love my ... read more

The Cure - Faith
55

Unfortunately, even as a massive the cure d rider - I think this album just kinda did nothing for me :c

While I was a fan of seventeen sounds, for some reason, this album just doesn't click with me at all and I found myself almost feeling like I wanted to just get a move on with the songs. I never felt the atmsophere and I never got lost - instead, it felt as if the songs themselves were lost, and I think that was in some ways intentional

This album is by far imo, the cure's most ... read more

Childish Gambino - Because the Internet
30

edit: re-reviewing this while reading the screenplay

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
100

Art like this makes the world worth living, one day, I hope i'll create my own to pimp a butterfly too. Inspirational, relatable, beautiful, just pure art, one of the best stories, music, and endings to art ever

Literature in music form,

The closest I have felt genuine love within sound form

Ryota Koduka, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Toshiki Konishi, Shoji Meguro, & Hidehito Aoki - Shin Megami Tensei IV Original Soundtrack
100

The best atlus game soundtrack imo.

My playthrough of SMT IV had been largely carried by it's soundtrack if I am to be honest, but this ain't fucking backloggd so I won't speak on the games actual quality (ITS MIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD)

There was a time when I once thought this game had a kinda mediorce soundtrack, largely due to the fact that I was dropped as a baby. Now that I have time travelled back in time and prevented that - I can see, oops- I mean hear how amazing this ... read more

Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
100

This album is like a sequel to music, like music 2

masterpiece :)

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
76

It's good, I just personally felt a little insane as the production got a little montonous in a full album listen. I enjoy the verses and chemistry, but none of the subject matter was particularly interesting and didn't grab me super hard. A good calm fun listen though, and even if the production wasn't the most diverse thing, it didn't need to be as it set off to do what it wanted to do: Make a funky chill beats to spit some to. The fat ass bass lime as well, love the lines ... read more

2Pac - Me Against The World
100

This album spoke to my soul, really fucking hard

Quickly, very quickly, becoming one of my favourite albums - Thank you 2pac. I'll give this album some real proper love when am not tired.

JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
100

His best album and its not even cl- okay, it's pretty close. Peggy just doesn't miss

This album is the most defining "JPEGMAFIA" album. This album has some of his best and strangest instrumentals, with imo, some of his best overall rapping and vocal performance as well

This album came out a little before Peggy became the well reowned chronically online music fan's favourite nerdy loser rapper, so this has some of hungriest, catchiest, and just incredibly angry and ... read more

Pixelbee - 素晴らしき日々の主題歌CDその2『ナグルファルの船上にて』 [Subarashiki Hibi Theme Song CD Part 2 "Naglfar no Senjou nite"]
100

naglfar no senjou nite is my favourite song of all time - the rest of the songs here are great or good, but just naglfar alone is enough to make this beyond gold.

Various Artists - 素晴らしき日々 サウンドトラックCD (Subarashiki Hibi Saundotorakku CD)
100

A peak soundtrack for a pretty alright visual novel imo. More a fan of the OST than the game itself at this rate haha...

I have probably logged infinite hours listening to this soundtrack, its basically become the soundtrack to my life recently. How wonderul!

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
95

Sounds like little big planet music to me, in a good way. I adore little big planet

Edit: Okay holy shit, so i'm not a fucking schizo. Jeff Mangum played in apple in the stereo who was apart of the little big planet soundtrack, Robert Schneider (the lead of the band) is also the producer of this album?? Neutral milk hotel is now LBP music to me. 85 > 95

JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
95

Don't feel like writing a super serious review, so some brief thoughts.

As a huge JPEGMAFIA fan with him being one of my most listened to artists ever, it was really strange for me to feel so personally unferwhelmed by his previous solo work LP!/OFFLINE! which is widely regarded as his best album lol. Not that I didn't enjoy it or hated it, but I just thought the album lacked much of the bite and weird fuck ass production finesse like BBC, veteran and AMHRC. Peg's weird ass ... read more

The Cure - Disintegration
100

It defeats me, it does everything for me that I would ever need in the most important piece of art I have ever heard, seen, and ever sensed

Maybe one day I could do some loving analysis, some love letter or whatever pretentioush tosh that I may conjure up for such an important work that somehow hasn't been said before

But, for now. I want to just lay some sentimentality for my favourite, THING ever. I love disintergration

David Bowie - Low
99

Mfw i love the popular critically acclaimed album instead of some obscure 100 follower bandcamp toiletcore 😞😞

Fuck Bowie for being such a talented musician and for making such good music... Cause now my basic taste is even more basic! Being real now, some real masterful stuff

月ノ美兎 [Mito Tsukino] - 月の兎はヴァーチュアルな夢をみる (Moon Rabbits Dream About Virtual)
93

A great album. extremely fun to listen to

Unlike most vtuber music which hinges hard on the gimmick of being vtubers, this album goes beyond just being the typical over produced garbage to something actually special

There are so many great tracks all from different musicians and producers, my favourite being mito radio galatica by IOSY and Hikaru Chizu by the insane and legendary fucking Hakushi Hasegawa, one of my favourite musicians so im a little biased, lol. So many different styles, ... read more

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