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A beautiful yet twisted new sound from the Swans.

This may be the best album Swans has done since To Be Kind. This album sounds like a journey through a beautiful yet somehow twisted world. Reminds me of the movie Midsummer. These beautiful Gothic-Folk soundscapes are only helped by Michael Gira's twisted and sometimes even scary vocals. I really love this album because (unlike TBK) doesn't have any blatant ear rape, (bring the sun, Title track) and it understands that it is a double album. ... read more

Futuristic Songs About Out Troubling Present

Civilisation I is the first release from the multi-pop band Kero Kero Bonito since their breakthrough 2018 record Time 'n' Place, an album which saw the trio make a departure from the glittery, J-pop infused sounds of their debut Bonito Generation, taking a turn into the realms of glitch and noise pop with dashes of indie rock, while the song-writing departed from the sugary carefreeness into a more mature, complex and conflicted tone.

This short, ... read more

Overhated

An album which might be his riskiest one yet pays off. Jesus Is King is a look into the mind of a recent convert and his journey to peace, happiness and most importantly his resurrection.

One of Ye's best produced albums this decade with a wide array of diverse instrumentals. Kanye sticks to the theme throughout with bars relating to Christianinty without being to preachy (even though this is a genre built on literal preachers) and the addition of his Sunday Service Choir. Sure, ... read more

Don't write him off.

First, to address the elephant in the room...MAVI does sound like Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE. He wears these influences brazenly on his sleeve, even getting a track produced by Thebe. However, MAVI paves his own way through this album.

A 19 year-old neuroscience major at Howard University in North Carolina, MAVI manages to write some gorgeous, introspective, "conscious" bars on Let the Sun Talk. I use the label "conscious rap" with quotations because I ... read more