2024 Music:
Too Close To Touch - For Keeps
Genre: Post-Hardcore
#GatewayTrack: Control
#SevenWordSummary: Soaring vocals, and a fitting send off
Listen to if you like: #Foxblood, #Normandie, #BadOmens
Rating: 8/10
The last ever 'Too Close To Touch' album, featuring a posthumous vocal performance from lead singer Keaton Pierce after he tragically passed away in March 2022. And an absolute showcase of his distinctive talents it is...
2024 Music:
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
Genre: Americana
#GatewayTrack: Crowbar
#SevenWordSummary: Competent, very listenable but maybe overly simple.
Listen to if you like: #SoccerMommy, #BoyGenius, #Haim
Rating: 6/10
#2024Music:
#Galleons - #ViolentDelights
Genre: Swancore
#GatewayTrack: Kismet
#SevenWordSummary: A pretty decent and fairly forgettable album
Listen to if you like: #Eidola, #Wolf&Bear, #Emarosa
Rating: 6/10
I've heard this album floated around as AOTY by several folks, and I've given it a good 6-7 listens, trying to figure out what I'm missing. Look, it's a decent album. But you can take any element of it and point to other bands doing it slightly better ...
2023 Music:
Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure - June 2023
Genre: Afrobeat, Pop, R&B
#GatewayTrack: Know Better
#SevenWordSummary: A confident, decadent album full of joy
Listen to if you like: #Amaarae, #JanetJackson, #StVincent
Rating: 9/10 - review below
New Music:
Avenged Sevenfold - Life is But a Dream... - June 2023
Genre: Avant-Garde Metal
#GatewayTrack: We Love You
#SevenWordSummary: Either musical genius, or a hot mess
Listen to if you like: #RoloTomasi, #SystemOfADown, #SleepToken
Rating: 8/10 ... or maybe 3/10 ... depends
[see review below in the replies]
New Music:
Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy - February 2023
Genre: Art-Pop, Neo-Soul
#GatewayTrack: Drum
#SevenWordSummary: Compelling beats with an eclectic soul
Listen to if you like: #YoLaTengo, #LittleSimz, #slowthai
Rating: 8/10
Possibly stretching the definition of 'new' music here. But any Young Fathers album is going to take a while to get into. This one is sounding a lot better the second time around.
A great album, but Young Fathers are victims of ...
New Music:
Romy - Mid Air - September 2023
Genre: Dance-Pop
#GatewayTrack: Loveher
#SevenWordSummary: Where catchy pop meets the dance floor.
Listen to if you like: #EverythingButTheGirl, #DaftPunk, #Georgia
Rating: 7/10
Romy sets her stall out early on track 1, Loveher, which is a simple but infectious as hell love song. And that's the album. Simple, dancey, often euphoric, sometimes poignant, very listenable.
