Yayes

This album makes me see vivid colours.

There is such a glorious sense of dread that this album communicates. A cat sitting calmly about to be mauled by a tiger on the cover of an album cynically titled "Nothing's About to Happen to Me" is the perfect visual and literary imagery for what this album gets across.

Mitski waltzes around her cottage of seclusion and weaves her freedom within the house with beautiful lyrical work conveying the twisting ribbon threads of her ... read more

Sleep Token clearly has so much more interest in making moody """"alt-""""pop, I don't understand why they so VEHEMENTLY insist on being a metal band too.

I feel pretty much the same about "Even in Arcadia" as I do about "Take Me Back to Eden." It's capital-B boring, it's elementary, it's robotically inhuman. Take with that what you will.

The metal portions of this album are so intensely removed in style and ... read more

After preliminary research, Sleep Token seems like a multimedia project that only occasionally dabbles in music.

For a band that seems to have a sort of vested interest in being "genre-defying," I had a very easy time classifying this album. It's like one half pop, one half metal. Of course, this on it's head isn't an issue, plenty of bands have blended sensibilities of pop music with the a metal palette with... varying degrees of success. What IS the issue is that ... read more

Chico Buarque sure as hell knows what to do with a rich instrumental palette.

Construção is a grand album. Theatrical, spectacular, colourful, harmonious, discordant, everything that makes music great. Buarque has a wonderful voice. It's smooth, rich, and powerful, even if he sings very quietly, it's forceful and dynamic, and it ties everything together. The lyrical cadences and vowel shapings are absolutely sublime, so even being someone who doesn't speak ... read more