An album drenched in hyper-sentimentality and Hyperpop influences, 'Frailty' on paper feels like an album that should have grown off of me a long time ago. Like I alluded to in my review of Teen Week, the hyperpop scene was fascinating to me a few years ago but ultimately ended up having a short shelf life for me. Jane Remover's output pre-'Census' is the sole exception to this and their debut LP is to this day one of my favorite albums and possibly THE most formative ... read more

After spending the last half-year almost exclusively listening to Autechre and the same 3 Lapfox albums, I decided to start a discog dive on Orbital as a palette cleanser because I like everything else I've heard from them (Orbital 2 & In Sides) and also because I watch The Wonky Angle.
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It's the album with "Belfast" on it!

I'll say this upfront, I think having heard (and loved to bits) "Belfast" before listening to the Green Album killed any chance of ... read more

I really want to love this album.

I've heard a lot of people say that out of Ae's 2000s work, Untilted is hands down their most inviting and welcoming album. I have never once seen the vision on that statement. Hell, Draft 7.30 and even Confield at their weirdest are so much easier for me to make heads or tails of than anything in this album's second half.

The first 4 tracks aren't perfect at all, but they're the strongest this album has to offer. The second half of ... read more

One of Autechre's most hard-hitting bangers in its title track + two other tracks which aren't worth giving a shit about.

Every Autechre fan and their mom knows this EP for its title track. Despite this EP coming out in 2002, the title track would feel right at home on one of the first two 'elseq' volumes; some of the sounds in it remind me a lot of "elyc6 0Nset" and the noisiness of it reminds me of "C7b2" a lot as well. It's a super fun listen. ... read more

I was originally going to skip out on listening to this simply because most artists I listen to who have had two decades of music under their belt honestly aren’t making good music in the big 2025. This was fucking *different*.

I’m far from cultured when it comes to OPN’s discography, but this is the most vibey thing I’ve heard from him. I can just put this on and drown in how enveloping the sounds are. Also, none of these samples realistically should work together, but ... read more

This is lowkey the bare minimum for Aphex Twin. The opening track is one of his most vibey and I like it, but the rest of the EP sounds so damn phoned in. If I’m in the mood for music that sounds like this, I’m putting on ‘Garbage’ by Autechre or something, not this nondescript slop.

[80 pages of glazing here]

This has many of my favorite tracks ever, and I’d love to give it a 100 like everyone else. Sadly, “Door”, “Death”, and “Thirteen” break the atmosphere the album’s trying to build. I get “Thirteen”’s inclusion as that’s actually part of the soundtrack, but “Door” and “Death” were not needed. I find Volume Beta to be so much more consistent personally.

The only project birthed from the 2021 hyperpop boom that I can still stand to listen to, and it’s actually one of my favorite EPs maybe ever.

Jane had her reasons for taking some of the songs off streaming and I understand that but this project just ain’t the same to me without “cartridge” and “beast friend”.

Not as crazy about this album as I used to be but this album was super formative to my music taste when I heard it sophomore year of high school. All these years later I can still think of very little electronic music that evokes nature like this does.