Chat, Mayhem is the first full Gaga record I've ever listened to, am I cooked?

Gaga reels us in with her usual rock-influenced party-girl style but turns the industrial dial all the way up with bangers like 'Abracadabra' that are just quintessence of her being while adding something very fresh to the mix. The sheer amount of influence she draws from across the board with artists like Michael Jackson (Shadow of a man), Madonna (Don't call tonight), Taylor Swift (How bad do U ... read more

..i kinda see why people call his earlier stuff 'incel rap'.

I like the brutal honesty and heart-ripped-out personality of this mixtape, his vocal inflections are comfortable to sit through and although the production is unbelievably unpolished I kinda mess with the rawness of it, even though I wish it was even more listenable.

A lot of things he says have aged horrifically just like with Camp - like ew some of the ways he talks about women on here is awful. But I'd say the ... read more

Choruses so sloppy it makes Eminem look like Ed Sheeran. Production starts off promising and cinematic, making a great combination with garage before absolutely tanking. Nothing is on time, samples that are lobotomising and the syncopation isn't even fucking charming.

I see the vision for a lot of stories this album is trying to tell, and some of them are funny, deserving better delivery than what they were given but it just fails to tell them properly each and every time, falling on ... read more

Mostly well mixed, catchy as hell and it's definitely one of those albums where other people's bullshit is a big focus lyrically. Supposedly, it's structured as a therapy session, where the tone moves from cynical to positive and self-accepting.

It definitely does a great job of expressing itself sonically, using a variety of rock flavours to convey what the particular song wants to and there were a few times where this change is daunting, it very quickly grows welcome as the ... read more

Hey, hey!! Improvement, babyyy!

Production is 1000% better, the lyrics (mostly) feel like they walk the bridge between emo dramaticism and seriousness in a much more tasteful and mature manner than in their previous album - and you would hope so considering they had four years of hindsight to figure that out.

Songwriting is also super improved with whole songs being able to grab attention, instrumentation feels much more intentional and effective, the better mixing also helps with this for ... read more

Particularly cliche and subpar lyricism in a lot of places, but Struble does a great job of making songs that people are made to sing along to, even if they all kiinda sound like something you've heard before, the sunny optimistic presence of Sloan's voice save it from coming off almost robotic in its rhythmically consistent nature. It does make it that bit weaker than what other projects Dayglow has put out to date, but one way or another I can sing along to it all happily and as the ... read more

We did it joe we got Dayglow quintessence!

This is the least ambitious Dayglow album and I cannot overstate how much of a good thing this is! The Dayglow project was started to make music a 5-piece band could play live. Sloan's scope for the project definitely changed along the way after Fuzzybrain but he's locked back into the sound this project was born for, escaping the indie-bedroom-retro-faux nostalgia of his past records to deliver something in the moment.. and that's ... read more

Inconsistent, derivative and lazy songwriting. Not even trying very hard to stand out from nu metal as a base.

Still, good times were had and they can write a good chorus.. when they want to

Yet another album that was screaming at me advice I should've been listening to when it came out lmao

At least it tried to make memorable moments. Maybe It's time to move the sound forward a little bit.

I thought I was going to hate this.

I like it but for none of the reasons that I used to like Kanye, it truly stands as its own against all of his other projects.

It's genuinely dark and saddening - for a man as psychologically destroyed as Kanye fucking West any type of personal expression is a cry for help and this... whew.

For once, I can actually hear the inside of his mind and I hate him as a human a little less, even if some of the things I'm hearing I don't like/agree ... read more

"hey dude you always have the weirdest shit on your spotify. like what the fuck even is a gizzard, and is the Lizard Wizard part of the duo?" - me to a..friend, about 20 minutes before playing 'Nonagon Infinity' in some shitass science lesson years back

You have about 9 seconds to make peace with the calm before "nonagon infinity opens the door", at which point we go balls-to-the-walls, pedal-to-the-floor, bottoms-up, tits-out straight up fucking bonkers into the ... read more

Funny number for a funny album
(also what i think it should be rated)

You could put 'laser-shooting dinosaur' on the tracklist and it would not stand out even slightly so there is deadass no point taking this seriously, suspend your disbelief, go along with it and have fun!!

Completely redeems Korn's grating attempt at an electro-influenced music and gives this 'genre' a second lease to life.

Detest 'fuckboi' tho

Utterly forgettable sadly despite the mixed bag of genre

Very fun and cleanly produced dancey album with a futuristic vibe

Maybe when I was a heavily pubescent, melodramatic eleven year old this would have rocked my world..

Today, it's a bit annoying and overly whiny. It still is fun at points and I have a solid appreciation for the summery melodic instrumentation of the period, there's too much noise and drama for anything to come through. Not even a dolby atmos mix could fix this. I guess it just isn't for me.

Too much millennial nostalgia glazing though it really ain't that good

Maybe ska is what I've been missing all along

This was really fun to listen to, it doesn't take itself all that seriously and as such it makes the 58 minutes this runs for pretty easy to sit through. Only thing is it goes so easy sometimes that I didn't take heavy notice to when something would happen. Still, good fun. at least the hate for this band feels much better directed and constructive than that towards AJR

<3

The only album I have listened to since "The Normal Album" that can blow the roof off in utter drama, emotion, character investment, humour and wrap it all up in a package of Brazilian-Jazz-Rock fusion. If this is to be my introduction to Black Midi then holy shit I have some listening to do.

69th :3
It was a cold Monday morning on the bus to school some years ago when "Suburbia Overture" washed up onto my autoplay and rocked my world.

I was enamoured by the oversaturated maximalist buzz of the instrumentation with the shocking vocals of Will Wood and the way it swung between moods for the crazed character it portrays - so theatrical, so ridiculously showy and yet still really catchy. The lyrics are clever to the point of coming across as pretentious - I've spoken ... read more

It's a pop record that is unapologetically melodramatic! Super indulgent and very impressively produced given the low budget they had to work with. They proved themselves to be skilled songwriters, while using this album as the base for their sound which in from 2005 up until then in 2017 they didn't even have:

Unique vocals and bombastic mixing whether you love or hate it (which I can totally understand tbh) and it's got a mixed bag of topics, albeit, a lot of them are kinda ... read more