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DommeDamian 
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This is a grower. At first it seems kind of substanceless, but it is actually really warm and nostalgic with its Kinks-esque summer pop and concept about an island and everything. Not every song is good, but there is enough solid material to come back to. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
This is a grower. At first it seems kind of substanceless, but it is actually really warm and nostalgic with its Kinks-esque summer pop and concept about an island and everything. Not every song is good, but there is enough solid material to come back to. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
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Now this feels like authtentic, both in the mathcore metal playing and the lyrical needs. Mirrors by Pupil Slicer is a metal album, very openly playing with time signatures (but not in a very forced way), and lyrically - what I can tell - is about unfair treatment of transgenderism. With the already uncommon subject matter, the music feels almost as wholesome. There are times where they are playing to their strengths like Martyrs (so far my favorite) the ethereal opening sound, the brutal dynamic playing around the end, the vocalist being sincere, it's a great song for sure (maybe a melody more would take it to an even higher class). Or on the possibly second favorite Save The Dream Kill Your Friends, with the drumming and guitar (especially) behaving even more violently. But, of course, we have a very few unignorably odd joints, where the high-level dynamic isn't as elegant (Wounds Upon My Skin) or the songs kind of limp through (Interlocutor). Those songs sounds like they were made by another weak band. The remaining tracks are a mixture of same-old metal approaches and good metal songs that have its moment (Panic Defence, for sure). But overall one of those new metalcore releases where the group actually hits intensity in a while. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
Now this feels like authtentic, both in the mathcore metal playing and the lyrical needs. Mirrors by Pupil Slicer is a metal album, very openly playing with time signatures (but not in a very forced way), and lyrically - what I can tell - is about unfair treatment of transgenderism. With the already uncommon subject matter, the music feels almost as wholesome. There are times where they are playing to their strengths like Martyrs (so far my favorite) the ethereal opening sound, the brutal dynamic playing around the end, the vocalist being sincere, it's a great song for sure (maybe a melody more would take it to an even higher class). Or on the possibly second favorite Save The Dream Kill Your Friends, with the drumming and guitar (especially) behaving even more violently. But, of course, we have a very few unignorably odd joints, where the high-level dynamic isn't as elegant (Wounds Upon My Skin) or the songs kind of limp through (Interlocutor). Those songs sounds like they were made by another weak band. The remaining tracks are a mixture of same-old metal approaches and good metal songs that have its moment (Panic Defence, for sure). But overall one of those new metalcore releases where the group actually hits intensity in a while. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
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ASSTSOABS had the potential to be a new monster of a singersongwriter record, if it wasn't for those complete filler tracks. I see what Misophone was trying to do on a track like Guillotine Walls, but the whole idea of it sounding like it's more gorgeous than it actually is, alternate with the vocalist not fitting the instrumentation, it becomes a mess. Sometimes the mixing seems off to like on The Year The Curtains Froze, where it's another voice but with less blood sweat and tears to its delivery, and the harmonica (I think) is too loudly engineered. But Quiet Lies is the worst offender, with the thinly distorted guitar over the super typical folk rhythm is both a song where none of those two elements were fully realized, and a failed experimentation. Luckily, the album has champs. I like the thematic yet lullaby-ish sphere on White Waves, and even more so Blue Bird's crystal nature (it should have been much longer). I saw that Swan's Road was (for the album's standards of having 8 votes on RateYourMusic and me being - as of writing - the only rater of it on BEA) more known with half a million streams. Quality-wise, it's slightly good; a gimmicky synth melody but it works, clichéd songwriting structure but I can forgive. Misophone's album has a handful of noticeable ones. Though the highpoints is, by all means, Goodbye. Just a greeat tune; Elliott Smith-inspired vocal charm, an damn captivating guitar melody. More instruments are being added as the song progresses, and none of them feel out of place. Some more in place than others but who cares. Probably the only one on ASSTSOABS, where there isn't a piece that stands out as much weaker. This is among my favorites. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
ASSTSOABS had the potential to be a new monster of a singersongwriter record, if it wasn't for those complete filler tracks. I see what Misophone was trying to do on a track like Guillotine Walls, but the whole idea of it sounding like it's more gorgeous than it actually is, alternate with the vocalist not fitting the instrumentation, it becomes a mess. Sometimes the mixing seems off to like on The Year The Curtains Froze, where it's another voice but with less blood sweat and tears to its delivery, and the harmonica (I think) is too loudly engineered. But Quiet Lies is the worst offender, with the thinly distorted guitar over the super typical folk rhythm is both a song where none of those two elements were fully realized, and a failed experimentation. Luckily, the album has champs. I like the thematic yet lullaby-ish sphere on White Waves, and even more so Blue Bird's crystal nature (it should have been much longer). I saw that Swan's Road was (for the album's standards of having 8 votes on RateYourMusic and me being - as of writing - the only rater of it on BEA) more known with half a million streams. Quality-wise, it's slightly good; a gimmicky synth melody but it works, clichéd songwriting structure but I can forgive. Misophone's album has a handful of noticeable ones. Though the highpoints is, by all means, Goodbye. Just a greeat tune; Elliott Smith-inspired vocal charm, an damn captivating guitar melody. More instruments are being added as the song progresses, and none of them feel out of place. Some more in place than others but who cares. Probably the only one on ASSTSOABS, where there isn't a piece that stands out as much weaker. This is among my favorites. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
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Okay so this is a metal album by a band who has structure/organized musicianship as their main strength. Normally it's a technically otherworldly guitar-player, or a smashing drummer or an exceptionally intense vocalist that makes a good metal record for me but here, it's the way they've planned the songs. Satuya, good example of that. Starting with a sombre guitar mood, then very solidly transfer into the big epic-playing, with almost no pauses for 7 minutes and then ending with a quiet distorting. Where it all gets more lackluster is that the song gets predictable and too typical, the vocalist is actually straight but there's something emotionally that he lacks, and it doesn't contain replay value since it's too long.
Well, Etemen Ænka continues in that vein (though with most of them as succes). Before I mention the absolute best of the bunch, lemme just shame them for making those super mundane electronic song-interludes Weighing of The Heart and Adræden (especially), those songs killed a lot of the momentum and monumental quality the album went for.
Still, the three best tunes are worth hearing again and again. While we're talking about songs that aren't metal, the left turn Asphodel is absolutely needed here. Wow this song. Beautiful female voice, amazing subtle "drone", definitely gentle for the album's direction. In that field, Enuma Elis is a great thriving song (with well done pop punk inspired sections), that mixing-wise aims a lo-fi and it goes on solidly. But Etemen Ænka's most ambitious song comes in Mleccha, an 8 minute piece that has the best build up of (maaybe) all 2021 metal songs, a great structure that shines and a grand chorus near the end - and for one time's sake, some actual growling that aren't super cringe, but really fit the density. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
Okay so this is a metal album by a band who has structure/organized musicianship as their main strength. Normally it's a technically otherworldly guitar-player, or a smashing drummer or an exceptionally intense vocalist that makes a good metal record for me but here, it's the way they've planned the songs. Satuya, good example of that. Starting with a sombre guitar mood, then very solidly transfer into the big epic-playing, with almost no pauses for 7 minutes and then ending with a quiet distorting. Where it all gets more lackluster is that the song gets predictable and too typical, the vocalist is actually straight but there's something emotionally that he lacks, and it doesn't contain replay value since it's too long.
Well, Etemen Ænka continues in that vein (though with most of them as succes). Before I mention the absolute best of the bunch, lemme just shame them for making those super mundane electronic song-interludes Weighing of The Heart and Adræden (especially), those songs killed a lot of the momentum and monumental quality the album went for.
Still, the three best tunes are worth hearing again and again. While we're talking about songs that aren't metal, the left turn Asphodel is absolutely needed here. Wow this song. Beautiful female voice, amazing subtle "drone", definitely gentle for the album's direction. In that field, Enuma Elis is a great thriving song (with well done pop punk inspired sections), that mixing-wise aims a lo-fi and it goes on solidly. But Etemen Ænka's most ambitious song comes in Mleccha, an 8 minute piece that has the best build up of (maaybe) all 2021 metal songs, a great structure that shines and a grand chorus near the end - and for one time's sake, some actual growling that aren't super cringe, but really fit the density. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
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Almost bedroom modern Aaliyah. Never over the top, but awesome background music. Besides Hope, the album isn't really a drag to get through, nor amazing R&B (besides two songs). The voice is there and the music is somewhat soothing. Collapsed In Sunbeams ain't really an album I would sit down and listen to wit full attention, nor can I memorize any melodies off the top of my head. But the way the subtlety moves around the structure and harmonic atmosphere of the songs, still is a pretty pleasurable experience for, again, background music. And sometimes, you/we need music like this. But ONLY sometimes. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
Almost bedroom modern Aaliyah. Never over the top, but awesome background music. Besides Hope, the album isn't really a drag to get through, nor amazing R&B (besides two songs). The voice is there and the music is somewhat soothing. Collapsed In Sunbeams ain't really an album I would sit down and listen to wit full attention, nor can I memorize any melodies off the top of my head. But the way the subtlety moves around the structure and harmonic atmosphere of the songs, still is a pretty pleasurable experience for, again, background music. And sometimes, you/we need music like this. But ONLY sometimes. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
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Yet another 2021 album filled with shadily bad songs (the commercial-and-not-very-good-at-it Two, the boring BedStuy), nice arrangements that results to decency (the half-dramatic half-try hard Dead Pursuits) and nice arrangements that results to good-greatness (like A Steady Warmth's neo-psychedelic shakiness, One's well done combination of old soul poem and pop climaxing; and Hotel's visceral angelic form tripping through an endless ocean). Those electronic turns can damage the songwriting sphere that it mostly almost gets at. What makes Common Turn stand out though (a little bit) is that Anna's vocal presence is actually the album's high point; very very crystal. Not for everyone, she controls her emotions further into the songs.
Update July 2022: I just went to see her at the (Roskilde) Festival and she was really good. Her voice is even more unbelievably excellent live than on album. Though some of the songs blended into each other, it was still really nice to experience her voice and those weary guitars live. She is also one of those musicians where your talking voice is different from her singing voice, though not to the extreme levels of Shaggy or Cigarettes After Sex. She said that last time she performed in Denmark, someone gave her a hash muffin and it "blew her fucking mind". A stunning woman she is, but the show could have been more focused and layered. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
Yet another 2021 album filled with shadily bad songs (the commercial-and-not-very-good-at-it Two, the boring BedStuy), nice arrangements that results to decency (the half-dramatic half-try hard Dead Pursuits) and nice arrangements that results to good-greatness (like A Steady Warmth's neo-psychedelic shakiness, One's well done combination of old soul poem and pop climaxing; and Hotel's visceral angelic form tripping through an endless ocean). Those electronic turns can damage the songwriting sphere that it mostly almost gets at. What makes Common Turn stand out though (a little bit) is that Anna's vocal presence is actually the album's high point; very very crystal. Not for everyone, she controls her emotions further into the songs.
Update July 2022: I just went to see her at the (Roskilde) Festival and she was really good. Her voice is even more unbelievably excellent live than on album. Though some of the songs blended into each other, it was still really nice to experience her voice and those weary guitars live. She is also one of those musicians where your talking voice is different from her singing voice, though not to the extreme levels of Shaggy or Cigarettes After Sex. She said that last time she performed in Denmark, someone gave her a hash muffin and it "blew her fucking mind". A stunning woman she is, but the show could have been more focused and layered. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
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Dave has higher highs but also lower lows on this new album as opposed to Psychodrama. His pen-game of telling emotional personal stories has improved, but some of the cuts here feels misplaced. The worst offender being the crazy awful and super commercial System. But when Dave comes with a precisely written line in an outstanding verse, it hits you in the feelings. Heart Attack is an avalanche of those (also being one of the best songs of the year), and there is musically also something to dig on the closer Survivor's Guilt. We're All Alone has one of my personal favorite moments in
"I got a message from a kid on Sunday mornin'
Said he don't know what to do and that he's thinkin' of killin' himself
Me and him got more in common than he thinks
But I tell him to see a shrink so I can go on and live with myself
I knew that my life was a film
From when I had to share a bed with my mum and I was pissin' myself
I just want my flowers while I'm here
So I can put them at the front of the grave that I've been diggin' myself" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
Dave has higher highs but also lower lows on this new album as opposed to Psychodrama. His pen-game of telling emotional personal stories has improved, but some of the cuts here feels misplaced. The worst offender being the crazy awful and super commercial System. But when Dave comes with a precisely written line in an outstanding verse, it hits you in the feelings. Heart Attack is an avalanche of those (also being one of the best songs of the year), and there is musically also something to dig on the closer Survivor's Guilt. We're All Alone has one of my personal favorite moments in
"I got a message from a kid on Sunday mornin'
Said he don't know what to do and that he's thinkin' of killin' himself
Me and him got more in common than he thinks
But I tell him to see a shrink so I can go on and live with myself
I knew that my life was a film
From when I had to share a bed with my mum and I was pissin' myself
I just want my flowers while I'm here
So I can put them at the front of the grave that I've been diggin' myself" [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
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A modern piano-heavy jazz record? In the bigger picture, not so bad. Too long though, they could've cut half of the album (please get North, An Old Friend and Cliffside out of here - no matter the technique, it doesn't really help that much). Their best accomplishment is doubtlessly Jig, piano playing rarely achieved this fine, with a fun rhythm that backs it up. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
A modern piano-heavy jazz record? In the bigger picture, not so bad. Too long though, they could've cut half of the album (please get North, An Old Friend and Cliffside out of here - no matter the technique, it doesn't really help that much). Their best accomplishment is doubtlessly Jig, piano playing rarely achieved this fine, with a fun rhythm that backs it up. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
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Celeste's voice is technically good (like an R&B singer should be), but it can sometimes be so clean that it slips between its own aesthetic (case in point, Strange). Luckily it ain't always like that. Besides Beloved - which embodies what Not Your Muse (or Celeste in general, artistically speaking) is about; airy R&B that drives back to older times, and contains melodramatic factors to give it a greater emotion - this album is not really in vein with my type of R&B. It's not crisp at all, and the melodies are virtually hard to find. However, I cannot hate on it; it's doing its thing. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
Celeste's voice is technically good (like an R&B singer should be), but it can sometimes be so clean that it slips between its own aesthetic (case in point, Strange). Luckily it ain't always like that. Besides Beloved - which embodies what Not Your Muse (or Celeste in general, artistically speaking) is about; airy R&B that drives back to older times, and contains melodramatic factors to give it a greater emotion - this album is not really in vein with my type of R&B. It's not crisp at all, and the melodies are virtually hard to find. However, I cannot hate on it; it's doing its thing. [First added to this chart: 05/26/2025]
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