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The New Sound
Igor
Blackstar
Ants From Up There
Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale
| Current average score: 5.84/10 | Artist, Name, Score, Cover | Comment |
|---|---|
| [Sabrina Carpenter] (Short n' Sweet) 4/10 | Welp, it's official, I've become too terminally online to listen to normal music. The push that finally got me to listen to this album was Dead Meat of all things, he did a killcount of the Taste music video, which while being a sick music video is also an unbelievably bland song. Not just Taste though, every song in this album is so bland that I forget them the moment I finish. Even Expresso which everyone seemed to like was so fucking boring that it had me wondering if maybe I just hate joy?? Even worse for me, the chorus to Expresso is so catchy that I've been endlessly torturing myself listening to a song I don't like. Why would you do this to me Sabrina? Very catchy, very good music videos but the music is like having plain white rice without any other dishes. Edit: Expresso has been stuck in my head for an actual month I think I might just end my life soon (think bout me oh isn't that sweet I guess so, say you can't sleep I know that's that me expresso). |
| [閔小芬 [Min Xiao-Fen]] (The Moon Rising) 3/10 | Never heard any classical Chinese music but this shit sucks 🤑 🤑 🤑 💯 |
| [underscores] (Wallsocket) 4/10 | Don't get this one at all, it's just kind of boring idk... Like it had some pretty great moments like 'Cops and robbers' and 'Johnny johnny johnny' but then the rest despite being loud and glitchy still just doesn't stick out at all. |
| [Fae Dads] (FaeDads) 4/10 | God bless Youtuber musicians for making the most bland and uninteresting music of all time. Still not absolutely terrible, probably on account of its length but whatever. |
| [Autumn's Grey Solace] (Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest) 4.5/10 | Not really my thing, I like the ethereal dreamy vibes but it just feels a little empty, like it is missing something or could be doing more. |
| [The Pharcyde] (Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde) 6/10 | Fun jazz-rap but just gets a little boring at points. The second half is a lot better though and kind of clutched up. |
| [black midi] (Cavalcade) 6.5/10 | Excellent at some points but what really brought it down was moments where the sound was so over the top and insane that my brain tapped out and stopped focusing on the music. |
| [Freddie Gibbs] (You Only Die 1nce) 4/10 | You're in your 40s dude you have to stop making gangsta rap 😭😭 |
| [Freddie Gibbs & Madlib] (Piñata) 5.5/10 | Loved Deeper, the rest was kind of hit or miss for me. Not bad by any measure though. |
| [Kendrick Lamar] (GMX) 7/10 | I'm pretty sure I'm holding Kendrick to a standard too high but I can't help myself. How can I not compare this to his masterpieces and while good, it's just kind of a let down? It felt empty in beats and raps. The title track also sucked ass and made me want to kill myself in a record breaking three minutes. God I hope my goat isn't washed but from where I'm standing this seems like the beginning of the end. |
| [Deltron 3030] (Deltron 3030) 5/10 | I know everyone loves this album but I can't for the love of me figure out why?? It's just kind of boring. All I have to say, not awful or even bad though. |
| [Black Country, New Road] (Ants From Up There) 10/10   | Idk what Billie Eilish style is but bars. I can seriously listen to this album over and over and not get tired of it, everything is booming and grand, it's like being hit with a wave of sound but the wave sick as hell and it's awesome and super cool I think I'm losing my mind but this album is sick as hell please listen to this shit I was hooked by the second song it's totally worth your time. |
| [Black Country, New Road] (Live at Bush Hall) 8/10  | Probably one of my favourite live albums of all time?? This album was effortlessly fire and is just a 3rd LP in my heart. My favourite song on here was predictably Turbines/Pigs, the building up into explosions of sound is just immaculate and the female singers cooks, she isn't a pig she's being too hard on herself :( . Very excited for these guys next work. |
| [Black Country, New Road] (For the first time) 7/10 | Some of the tracks felt a little lacklustre especially compared to their later works but it was still a very good album, lots of bangers especially 'Science Fair', 'Sunglasses' and 'Opus'. It was a bit weird to hear Mr Road talking about Kanye, I don't know what that was about but I wonder if he too is as disappointed at Vultures as me. |
| [U2] (The Joshua Tree) 5.5/10 | Was really enjoying the first few songs, kind of let down by the second half though which was nowhere near the level of the first and the last four songs lost this album a full two points from me. |
| [Steely Dan] (Aja) 8/10  | Very good album up until 'I Got the News' which really pulled it up to an eight for me, that song is perhaps too smooth, impossibly so. Was a little disappointed that this wasn't 'The New Sound but less horny' like it was advertised but I got over that pretty quickly and just enjoyed this album for for it's endlessly funky jazz rock. |
| [Geese] (3D Country) 8.5/10  | I thought I hated country because it was a bad genre, but it seems I hated country because nobody in the genre was doing it like Geese. This album is so fun and bullshit in the best ways possible. What I saw could make a dead man die is bars, ily Cameron Winter. The title track is my favourite off the album and a perfect song imho. |
| [glass beach] (plastic death) 7.5/10 | A pretty great album that kind of started collapsing in on itself midway through but then seemed to hold off the collapse just well enough. The whole first half banged but the second was a little hit or miss for me though 'the CIA', 'commatose' and 'abyss angel' really clutched up and held this together. Especially commatose that song bangs so hard. The first half was incredible though with not a single miss. |
| [Jack Harlow] (Jackman.) 5/10 | I preferred him a lot more on Industry Baby and I think I will continue to only listen to him in Industry Baby.That's not because it's bad it's just because Industry Baby is that good. The actual album is alright, I liked 'They Don't Love It' the most but I really felt like this entire project Jack was just getting carried by his beats. I also feel like it needed to be longer than 22 minutes as it's not really a full album?? More like an EP idk. |
| [Linkin Park] (From Zero) 3.5/10 | I'm sure people who love Linkin Park are loving this record, sadly I am not one of them and I just got bored out of my mind as this just felt like a rehash of older albums. |
| [Father John Misty] (Mahashmashana) 7.5/10 | Good album, very beautiful but didn't really gripped me, except for in 'Screamland' and 'She Cleans Up' which both go hard, but Screamland more in a going hard way and She Cleans Up more in a very pretty way. I can't explain anything, listen to the songs if you want to get it. |
| [Wu-Tang Clan] (Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)) 4.5/10 | Maybe I just don't get 90s hiphop but this stuff is so overrated and boring. Some guy told me to smoke while listening to it but I think if I was high I'd probably fall asleep by song two. |
| [Nas] (Illmatic) 4.5/10 | Just realised I forgot to rate it but this album put me to sleep Tyler was onto something. |
| [Mos Def] (Black on Both Sides) 8.5/10  | It's fun and an interesting listen both musically and lyrically. It's clearly a classic for a reason and I feel like it's aged much better than other 'classic' hiphop albums from the 90s like Illmatic or Enter The Wu-Tang. |
| [##femcel] (I like the way you slit (join my cult 2)) 1/10 | Thank god this was only 15 minutes because I think any more and I would have gone insane. The mixing is totally fucked and it felt like my ear drums were being blown out once a second. It must be a purposeful decision but I don't know what purpose giving me a headache serves. Dogshit cover too. |
| [half•alive] (Persona) 7/10 | A really fun album and automatic is an absolute banger. |
| [BROCKHAMPTON] (SATURATION) 7.5/10 | Great debut album, a few songs like HEAT, TRIP and SWIM brought it down for me and the last song wasn't super satisfying either. I also thought the skits didn't really add anything but apart from that it's full of bangers, my favourites were 2PAC and FACE. Will be sure to listen to 2 and 3. |
| [Shiro Sagisu] (The End of Evangelion) 4/10 | Alright for ambience but listening to it as an actual album is so boring zzzzz how is this so highly rated. |
| [Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra] (Promises) 2/10 | Perhaps too minimal? Like I know this thing is literally a post minimal album but holy shit I think I can feel that one harp string reverberating in my head and I'm going insane. |
| [Tay-K] (#SantanaWorld) 5.5/10 | It's alright but Tay K gonna rot in hell do not free this man. |
| [Vylet Pony] (Monarch of Monsters) 6/10 | I think I'd like this more if I didn't have to fight Apple music to listen to it. My favourite song was easily Pest, the guitar and whatever brass instrumental was playing at the start went so hard, but it just went downhill from there and it really hit it's lowest point on Sludge where to be honest the name says everything. It was a boring 20 minute slog where I at multiple points considered just turning the album off and then once it finally ended Revenge Fantasy started playing and that song was ass too 😭 (not nearly as bad though). It seems like a lot of people got hit hard by this one but I just can't relate, perhaps I'm just a sheltered little whiteboy but this was far too hit or miss for me. By the way, was that a gmod sound effect on PLAY DEAD! PLAY DEAD!? I swear to god it was. When it comes out on Spotify I'll relisten to it and perhaps the pain of giving Tim Apple my credit card will have dissipated and I'll be able to enjoy it fully. Edit: Upon relisten I will not be changing my score, this album was just as mixed a bag for me as on first listen. |
| [Femtanyl] (REACTOR) 8/10  | Not as good as chaser, though chaser is one of my favourite albums of all time so that'd be pretty hard. Despite that, this album had a real kick to it. I've loved Weightless, dinner and M3 N MIN3 since their first release and songs like IT'S TIME go crazy hard. I'd really love to have heard M3 N MIN3 for the first time on this album because hearing the Danny check was so hype. I'd like for more variety in femtanyl's next release as the formula is getting a little repetitive though I'll keep listening to her music even if she just does this forever she my goat fr. I also had Chromokopia queued by accident and the transition from IT'S TIME and Darling, I is pretty good. |
| [The Postal Service] (Give Up) 6.5/10 | Lots of bangers but the second half really just faded into the background. |
| [The Roppl] (A Little Bit Of The Road or Something Like an Egg in the morning cracked over my head) 0.5/10 | 😭😭😭 |
| [Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band] (Trout Mask Replica) 5/10  | I spent like 10 straight minutes laughing at this shit how the fuck did this even happen. Did he not let anyone hear this?? How did Frank Zappa give this the thumbs up? Like who decided to put a fully spoken word 2 minute long section for the second song?? I literally felt like I was going insane listening to this shit, but I can't put an album that brought me so much joy below a 50, despite it deserving a 10. Would never listen to this again though. |
| [LCD Soundsystem] (american dream) 9/10 | No it's not the worst LCD Soundsystem album. It's a step down for sure but it still has the same LCD Soundsystem charm and oh baby is easily one of their best. The main issue with this album was some really disappointing last few songs, there did not need to be any 12 minute songs and the rest of the stuff was good but it just didnt blow me away like those on Sound Of Silver or This Is Happening. Edit: 7.5 -> 9, I can't explain myself and I won't apologise for my beliefs. |
| [Natalia Lafourcade] (De Todas las Flores) 8/10  | The first song didn't click but it was smooth sailing from there, this is honestly one of the 'smoothest' (probably the wrong word) albums I've ever listened to so I can imagine myself returning often especially with all the great songs on here like the title track and Maria La Cuarandera. My only issue is that some songs weren't particularly memorable but that might be a language barrier thing. |
| [LCD Soundsystem] (Sound of Silver) 9.5/10   | My favourite LCD Soundsystem record, it's consistent, fun and every track is near perfect (except for the title track but that still goes hard). The final track was a complete curveball in the best way possible and everything else was just classic LCD Soundsystem but at the highest level possible. You can tell just how hard this man laboured over every single song, they're layered but never have too much going on. All My Friends is one of my favourite songs of all time btw. Very excited to see what Mr Soundsystem has in store for me next. |
| [LCD Soundsystem] (LCD Soundsystem) 7/10 | Just too many misses for me to love. Songs like Thrills, Yeah and Tired fuck the flow up really badly and honestly the entire disk 2 is a step down except for the first few songs. This does not need to be almost two hours though it could have done with half. |
| [LCD Soundsystem] (This Is Happening) 8/10  | For some reason I kept trying to this listen to this record and then getting bored by Drunk Girls, perhaps I'm sexist idk, but after I broke my mental barrier I was able to fully enjoy this. I slowly think Mr System is becoming one of my favourite artists. Of course Dance Yrself Clean was the highlight but that's not to discredit all the other great songs on here, even somebody's calling me, which all the terminally online seem to hate was honestly great. It was very fun and if I was physically capable of dance I would've been throwing it back rn, alas I'm just a human soul trapped inside a computer. |
| [Zhnoi] (webcore friends) 4/10 | Brain tumor music. I don't think I can see colours anymore after watching that music video either. Aside from the loss of 10 years of my life this is just some pretty generic sounding modern breakcore, or maybe digital hardcore idk but its surely not hardcore sounding enough and if I'm being honest at this point all the breakcore I hear this days forms some kind of homogeneous glob in my head and asking me to name a single song would be quite a challenge. It bores me to death and every song sounds like bright colours and autism. |
| [The Caretaker] (Everywhere at the End of Time) 1/10 | Just sounds like low quality old music to me and even if it didnt and I'm too Tiktok brained to get through this long ass album. probably some life changing experience, too bad it's too boring for me to listen to. |
| [Kali Uchis] (ORQUÍDEAS) 4/10 | I don't know enough Spanish to listen to this. Straight up. I know a bit of Spanish, I could probably hold a conversation with a second grader but thats about my extent, so when she switches between Spanish and English I feel like I'm having whiplash trying to figure out what she's saying because I'm not smart enough to understand the Spanish sections without a lot of thought. I think I'll relisten to this once I'm more literate and I imagine it will be better. |
| [Justice] (Cross) 6/10 | Had some real bangers like DVNO and D.A.N.C.E but most of the time it just blends into the background. Stress (the song but also the concept) was also just bad so that didn't help either. Yeah I'm sure this was ahead of its time and groundbreaking but listening to it now I just don't think it holds up. |
| [Pink Floyd] (The Wall) 7/10 | The last Pink Floyd record in their legendary 70s run and its... underwhelming?? This album isn't bad, I actually like it but it's just a bit overhyped. It has too many songs and has spread itself thin creatively which you can definitely notice in the second disk where songs start being really hit or miss. Of course Another Brick in the Wall (all parts) and Comfortably Numb are classics though. This is the Donda of the Pink Floyd discography (I cant go a single minute without a Kanye reference sorry). |
| [Mount Eerie] (Night Palace) 7.5/10  | This album took me like 5 tries to get into and I think it was worth it, some of this stuff is mystical, like straight up I felt like I went into a trance like state listening to Co-Owner of Trees. Might need to relisten with a focus on the lyrics as I have no idea why Demolition turned into a podcast at the end but it was cool either way. The range of sounds on this album is quite honestly insane and the fact that they seem to work together is even more crazy. My main complaint was that yeah it just took me a while to get into, that's probably because of my inexperience with Mr Eerie but still gonna hold it against him idk. Also the album cover looks like dogshit literally every single cover looked better than this sorry Phil. Very rewarding album to listen to and i imagine my rating can only grow. Sidenote Spotify queued Scary Monsters and Super Creeps (the song not the album) after this album and the transition from I Need New Eyes to Scary Monsters and Super Creeps is scarily good. Edit: I Spoke With a Fish is great, love it a lot. |
| [The Cure] (Songs of a Lost World) 7.5/10  | Listened with my Dad and him being pissed off that the songs were all like 6 minutes honestly made the experience way better. I was already impressed with 'Alone', but when 'And Nothing Is Forever' went on, holy shit I was going crazy. One of the best songs I've heard this year. The only low point on this one for me was Warsong and it was barely a low point. We are back team. Edit: 8.8 -> 8.4 This album has grown off me a little. I still think it's great but it's not hitting as hard. Edit 2: 8.4 -> 7.5, find myself not wanting to return to this album as often as an 8 should have me. |
| [Daft Punk] (Random Access Memories) 6/10 | Lots of great stuff especially Giorgio by Moroder, Giving Life Back to Music, Instant Crush, Touch and Get Lucky. A nice and very thematically satisfying send off for Daft Punk, but it just never really clicked for me, I've listened to this about three times now and its still just really hit or miss imo. I think this would be better if I was a bigger Daft Punk fan. |
| [Tyler the Creator] (CHROMAKOPIA) 9.5/10  | Just finished this shit and WHAT THE FUCK WAS THE SECOND HALF. IM ACTUALLY TWEAKING SO MUCH WHATTTT. 'Like Him' had me floating and Balloon sent me fucking intersetellar. 'Take Your Mask Off' was also straight beautiful. Not much more to say but my goat is still alive and I'm so happy right now. Edit: 9.4 -> 9.5 This album has grown on me since release and I can't stop listening to it. The songs hit hard and go hard. |
| [Cosmo Sheldrake] (Eye To the Ear) 7/10 | Some of the stuff like 'Marvellous Clouds', 'I Did And I Don't And I Do', 'By Being With You' and 'Interdimensional' had me floating but I thought the majority of the middle had very little to it and I ended up zoning out a bit. This was certainly interesting though, not sure if I've ever heard something quite like this before and I imagine it requires a certain mood to enjoy fully. |
| [AZALI] (Voices From the True World VII) 3.5/10 | I feel like I've heard this same kind of sound too many times and it bores me at this point. It sounds like one of those credit songs but im the final boss videos. At some points it almost just fades into the background but then randomly increases its intensity and reminds me of its existence which I didnt appreciate. crystal ice caves was a nice change of pace though, I enjoyed that one. |
| [Venetian Snares] (Rossz Csillag Alatt Született) 6/10 | Read hated Szerencestlen but it was smooth sailing from there. Maybe it's because right before I listened to a song from the genre harsh noise wall and needed to cool off idk. I liked the classical moments a fair bit more than I expected and I enjoyed Ongyikos Vasanap and Hajnal (especially Hajnal that was fire) quite a lot and I thought the ending song was very pretty but a fair few of the songs just felt a bit redundant and I'd probably have enjoyed it more if it was a bit shorter but that might just be a skill issue, maybe I'll need a relisten. Some of this album kind of reminded me of Maigre by Igorrr and Ruby My Dear which was cool. |
| [Mike Krol] (I Hate Jazz) 5.5/10 | Somebody buy this guy a working microphone please holy shit why does this sound like it was recorded on a microphone from the 1940s. Aside from the awful recording I think this is usually a pretty fun album. |
| [Sprain] (The Lamb as Effigy) 2.5/10  | I like the slendermen on the cover but this album just hurts my ears. I like the first song 'Man Proposes, God Disposes' but it just goes downhill from there until my ears are bleeding by the end. I literally had to take a break after Margin For Error because it was too much for me. |
| [IDLES] (Joy as an Act of Resistance) 8.5/10  | This is just one of those albums that you listen to because the name gets caught in your mind. Unironically one of the most fire album titles of all time right behind Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! sadly the album doesn't match its titles coolness, in the second half at least. The first half is absolutely incredible which is the main reason for my score, the second half loses its steam a bit though, it's by no means bad but it just doesn't go quite as hard. Edit: 7.9 -> 8.5, the whole album has grown on me a lot and the second half doesn't seem that bad anymore, I was overreacting a bit in my first review. |
| [Will Wood & The Tapeworms] (Everything Is a Lot) 6/10 | Music for people who try to pretend that they are unwell in the head. I won't believe youre truly insane until you do something actually off the rails, kick a baby or sit outside a supermarket yelling slurs at strangers and then maybe I'll believe you. |
| [They Might Be Giants] (Flood) 8/10  | One of the OG geek rock albums with not a single song thats bad and even has a couple classics like Birdhouse in Your Soul and Istanbul (Not Constantinople). Umbrella Academy actually got me onto this one (fun fact). Your Racist Friend is a great song name too. |
| [JPEGMAFIA] (Black Ben Carson) 6.5/10 | The first JPEGMAFIA album and its... alright? It has some songs like ALL CAPS NO SPACES, Drake Era, The 27 Club and the extremely disturbing I Just Killed A Cop Now I'm Horny that show off Peggy's talents but most of this stuff ranges from average to alright. |
| [Slash] (Orgy of the Damned) 3.5/10 | Blue rock was a mistake and should never have existed and this album is proof. Just a boring draining album to sit through until you tune it out. |
| [Berlinist] (Gris Original Soundtrack) 8/10  | Absolutely incredible OST that really makes Gris. Unagi and Gris, pt. 1 are some of my most listened to songs of all time on Spotify and the rest are some very nice songs to just chill and listen to. |
| [My Chemical Romance] (Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge) 8/10  | My favourite MCR album and one of the last truly great pop punk albums. Just a good time overall. |
| [my bloody valentine] (loveless) 8/10  | I know everyone says it but this sounds like the cover, this is the kind of music you have to listen to with headphones because it's just too layered to listen to on a shitty phone speaker or something. I honestly couldn't imagine hearing this in 1991, I would be losing my mind. Could barely believe it myself and I was hearing it in the 2020s. |
| [Twenty Øne Piløts] (Trench 10 Inch Triplet EP) 5.5/10 | I don't get why people love this one so much. I thought Nico and the Niners was good but the other two were medicore. |
| [Will Wood] (The New Normal!) 5.7/10 | Will is the gayest straight man alive. The production was there but it just felt like Will Wood was screaming at me to look at him showing me how wacky he is and shit and it came off as a little corny, though Laplace's Angel was pretty good and so was I / Me / Myself. |
| [椎名もた [Siinamota]] (Ikiru) 4/10 | I used to pretend to like this one because it had young girl a on it which I thought was a banger, but most of this is boring and if I'm being real I'm not even if sure if I like young girl a that much anymore. This is like Youtube music but not from the actual Youtube music app, this is the kind of shit actual video Youtube tries to get you to listen to if you get what I'm on. |
| [Little Simz] (NO THANK YOU) 6/10 | A pretty massive letdown from Little Simz. The entire last quarter was just straight bad and it felt like I could take or leave most of the stuff on here. |
| [Travis Scott] (UTOPIA) 6/10 | I got this one recommended to me by a friend and I think its worn off me. I originally thought it was maybe a 7.5 but the more times I hear the songs the less interesting they sound. Circus Maximus, My Eyes, Looove and Modern Jam are really good but the rest is kind of weak at least for Travis Scott standards. This could have done without a fair few of the songs. |
| [Queens of the Stone Age] (...Like Clockwork) 5/10 | Rock without any bonus flavours or over the top zesty production has never been a genre I really enjoyed, despite that I think I had a good time with this record. I Appear Missing is really great and my favourite on this by far. Edit: 7 -> 5, what did I mean by zesty production? Anyways this albums songs feel bland on relisten. |
| [Kill Bill: The Rapper] (RAMONA) 6.5/10  | Firstly, fire ass cover. like this was literally the only reason I listened. Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Time levels of eye catching. This mixtape is such a strange amalgam of styles and the fact that they all actually sound good is quite the accomplishment. My favourite songs are the ones that lean more into a jazzy sound but the more lofi songs don't bore me like I often find they do. Some of these songs even give me Luv(sic) vibes which was pretty awesome, especially backwoods. Good Luck Chuck was actually pretty disturbing too and a crazy curveball. Edit: 8.3 -> 6.5, really grown off me to be honest, whether it just being a little heavy for casual listening or something else I find mysef skipping songs I have saved to my mix from this. |
| [Laura Marling] (Patterns in Repeat) 6/10  | Hmmm, auspicious. This might need a few more listens for me to get it fully and probably some more focus on the lyrics as I definitely felt like I wasn't getting the full picture at some points, though with its relatively short 36 minute length I imagine I'll be listening to it again sooner rather than later. Even without a deep understanding of the album during my first listen it was still kind of great?? I'm not really one for chamber music or folk so I don't really know how this weighs up in comparison to any other albums but this album certainly had me almost transfixed at some points, only being broken out of the immersion by track five and six which while not bad at all just seem to have a different vibe or something? I don't know, cant explain it. Overall some great stuff and I think I'll need to listen to some more Laura Marling in the future. Edit: 8.1 -> 6, really grew off me for some reason, just bores me a little now. |
| [Amyl and The Sniffers] (Cartoon Darkness) 3.5/10 | Not that much to say about this one as I basically tuned it out after a point. It just kind of bored me and punk as a genre really does nothing for me atp. |
| [Cacola] (The Angel, The Demon,) 7/10  | A very impressive synthpop project, why is the cover undertale fanart though? I think my main problem with this one is that its just too long, everything but The Demon, Lit Fuse, [...] and The Angel could have been cut out. Not to say those songs are bad, in fact I really like all of them (except for Redeyes that song really is bad) but [...] and The Angel alone are an hour 15 minutes and I generally prefer shorter albums. Maybe they could have been put in an extra EP or something. The thing that ruined Redeyes for me was its really piercing noise playing over the like whole second half that of ruined the flow after a very good start with The Demon. I know I really only said bad things about this album I actually did have a good time with this one and it deserves to be more popular than it is. Go listen to this or at least listen to The Angel Pt. 1, that was majestic. |
| [DC The Don] (REBIRTH) 7/10 | After listening to FLY ENOUGH TO BE VIRGIL I was pretty excited and I think this met my expectations. I hope gets more attention because 15 ratings just makes me sad. My main issue with this though is that it seems to be a little all over the place but I imagine the new Tyler album is gonna be all over the place too and I'm gonna meatride that like crazy so this could grow on me. A lot of songs also just feel like nothing, like this would have been a much better 40 minute album. My favourite songs were SPOTLIGHTS and FLY ENOUGH TO BE VIRGIL. |
| [Yeat] (LYFESTYLE) 6.5/10 | I was talking to a friend about favourite musicians (because music is the only thing I'm capable of talking about ig). But they told me their favourite underground artist was Yeat and I've been fuming ever since for no reason because I'm just a hater ig. Anyways despite me coming in really wanting to hate this one I actually ended up liking it and it's kind of insane that Yeat made two albums that people liked in one year, very impressive output. Edit: 7.4 -> 6.5 I mean it's alright. |
| [Various Artists] (Moana) 7/10 | The people that don't like this are just mad they'll never be as glam as Tamatoa. |
| [ian] (Goodbye Horses) 3/10 | I'd love to rate this lower but I cant deny the fact that the song Goodbye Horses was so good. like this entire album bored me into a coma and then Goodbye Horses started playing and that shit saved my life fr. Can't believe its sitting on a 64 user score. I don't know how he pulled it off but somehow for those three minutes this mf surpassed all his idols he was trying to imitate during this entire album it was insane trust. |
| [Tim Hecker] (Virgins) 5.5/10 | Aside from Live Room, this album was just background sounds that I'm kind of impartial to, Live Room did catch me off guard though. |
| [M83] (Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts) 7.5/10  | Went in knowing nothing, did not expect shoegaze but it was a pretty welcome surprise. I thought this one was really good especially On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain where I could feel myself ascending to a higher plane or something. I might relisten at some point when my head doesn't hurt like hell though and see if my opinion has changed. |
| [Lorde] (Melodrama) 8.5/10   | People in New Zealand often try to pretend that the only good NZ artist isnt Lorde, claiming that 1814 or SIX60 are somehow on the same level as her. I've listened to SIX60, I've listened to 1814 (because Spotify is shoving them down my throat) and they don't stand a chance, Lorde could make don't forget your roots any day of the week but SIX60 could never make Liability. This is easily one of the best synthpop albums of all time. I'm never going to listen to solar power they cant make me. |
| [Bon Iver] (SABLE,) 6.5/10 | randomly realized this dropped, wasnt even waiting for it and I still get to listen to it before all you guys who are waiting, I love living in New Zealand so much. Anyway this is actually pretty fine. Not much going on but it's an EP I guess. |
| [Machine Girl] (MG Ultra) 5.5/10 | this album is like a really long stride in the right direction after uvoid which was dogshit. like its still in the same vein as uvoid creatively but way more refined. still doesn't have the same level of autistic energy as because I'm young and arrogant. hot lizard is absolutely a banger though. this album felt a little more accessible too? like your grandad would probably still die if you played this for him but it would be only one stroke instead of three. Edit: 7.8 -> 5.5, not quite sure hwat happened but this album sounds a little annoying to me now. |
| [The Lampshades] (The Machinist - Demo 1) 2/10 | Ehhh, the vocals are really quiet for some reason (maybe bad recording tools) and the yelling sounded forced. Sorry Mr Shade. |
| [The Irrepressibles] (From the Circus to the Sea) 6/10 | Some of the best TikTok music you can find. |
| [Little Simz] (Sometimes I Might Be Introvert) 9/10   | This ablum sounds grand. Idk music terms or anything but this felt like it was towering over me and just kept rising somehow. |
| [Little Simz] (GREY Area) 6/10  | a bit of a let down to hear this right after Sometimes I Might Be Introvert but its still a great album with some especially great moments like Selfish and Venom. Edit: 7.5 -> 6, felt like dud after dud on relisten to be honest. |
| [Starmoon & PIKARO] (open til midnight) 2.5/10 | Pretty classic starmoon, lots of random annoying and often painful sounds that are not needed at all and the actual substance sounds pretty awful too. |
| [Pent Up Pup] (Pent Up Pup - Live @ The Sex Room @ AC '24) 4/10 | Banished from the sex room. |
| [Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds] (Wild God) 7/10  | Guys can we stop making great albums for like a couple days I'm having trouble keeping up here. Edit: This was written during August when Imaginal Disk, Romance, Sky Hundred, Ultra 85, I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU and shadowbox dropped |
| [Playboi Carti] (Die Lit) 5.5/10 | I guess I just don't get Carti, this is his highest rated project and it still only bordered on being good for me. There were some great moments like Choppa Won't Miss but a lot just felt like bloat to me. Edit: 6.6 -> 5, fuck you Carti drop I AM MUSIC soon or I'm going to keep relistening to this and realising I don't like it as much as I did before. |
| [Kamasi Washington] (Fearless Movement) 7/10  | Imagine getting an Andre 3000 feature and its completely instrumental but still goes hard. That's just the kind of album this is and prologue is competing for my favourite song of this year, I wish this was a little shorter though because an hour 30 of jazz was a bit much for me on most days. |
| [Mac Miller] (Swimming) 6/10 | Mmmm, I'd like to rate this one higher but there are just a lot of songs that I don't really vibe with but also Jet Fuel and Come Back to Earth are some of my favourite songs in hiphop, if this only had those two it would probably be an 100 (I mean probably not because that would fuck up the flow but still you get what I'm saying). Edit: 7.7 -> 6, I just don't really find myself super interested in this album atp, lots of a duds tbh. |
| [Dave Rowntree] (Radio Songs) 3.5/10 | An almost offensively boring set of songs, I listened to this because it was from a member of Blur but this is just sad. |
| [Kid Cudi] (Man On The Moon: The End Of Day) 8.5/10  | I fear that I'm becoming a kid cudi fan. This album is just so catchy and fun and different from a lot of the hiphop I hear usually. |
| [Mingus] (The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady) 7/10 | Surely one of my favourite jazz albums of all time, it has a great flow and is just really full. My major problem with this though is the mixing is so fucked like a lot of the 1960s stuff. Edit: 8.2 -> 7, the mixing thoughhh. |
| [Rabbit on the Moon] (The Magic Show) 1.5/10 | I don't know why people who are bad at making music default to ambient but I'm sorry an ambient album is not as easily as you think it is. |
| [John Coltrane] (A Love Supreme) 2/10 | This album is an overrated piece of shit that forced me to switch to mono because its got that annoying ass half in one ear half in the other thing going that gives me a headache. I read a bunch of reviews talking about how cinematic the album was and I just didn't feel that, it felt empty and bored me to death. The 20 points were mercy points. |
| [Depeche Mode] (Violator) 8.5/10  | I was sceptical at the start of World In My Eyes, I was like 30 seconds in and felt like this album was gonna be dogshit but I was throwing it back by the end of it so I guess I know nothing. This was one of the best synthpop albums I've ever heard in my life, behind maybe just Spirit Phone, Imaginal Disk and Melodrama (and maybe Currents too but I'm still figuring out how I feel about that one). It's like the old ass men in Depeche Mode were seducing me or something. The best song was either Personal Jesus or Policy of Truth and it was crazy when I realised I've heard Enjoy the Silence a bunch of times and just didnt know it was by these guys. Blue Dress was by far the worst song and kind of brought this album down a lot. That shit was way too long for its own good and so boring. For sure a skip on relistens. |
| [Crazy Frog] (Crazy Hits) 1/10 | Mind bending horrors beyond human comprehension. |
| [Gustavo Cerati] (Bocanada) 7.5/10  | Very fun pop?? Dance?? Rock?? album. My favourite songs were Puente, Verbo Carne and Raiz (especially Raiz) and the worst song was Y Si El Muno Esta En Foco... by far. I think it had a bit of a weak second half though, could've benfitted from a shorter length. |
| [DANGERDOOM] (The Mouse and the Mask) 7/10  | A great project that I somehow didnt know existed until today, this album is great but I feel like if anything Doom actually brought it down, the beats were great but Doom didn't seem to be on his A game. Luckily Doom's B game is better than most rappers A game. Sofa King and Old School rules were my favourite songs, especially Sofa King that beat was fire. Edit: 8 -> 7, too many weak links. |