reviews
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Playing with ballad clichés, the Californian concocted one of the wittiest pop tunes of the late 2000s.
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Bocchi the Rock, K-On!, and Girls Band Cry are among the most popular shows of their season to the point where their albums sell. How do they click?
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Just before a short break, a new post to celebrate 2025 is out with some end-of-year lists!
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Capsule Reviews (December – Part 2) – Jim Ghedi, kinoue64, acloudyskye…
2025, Abstract Hip Hop, album-review, Alternative Rock, art pop, Art Rock, Baroque/Chamber Pop, Conscious Hip Hop, Danny Brown, emo, experimental, Experimental Rap, Experimental Rock, Hard Rock, indie, indie folk, indie pop, indie rock, music, Neo-psychedelia, new-music, Pop Rap, post-punk, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Pop, review, reviews, Rock, Screamo, Singer-Songwriter, Slacker Rock
Just before New Year’s Day and the Capping Off entry, the second half of the Capsule Reviews closes nearly all of the albums that are due for a review!
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Choi Yeon-soo, once an earnest K-pop aspirant called D:elta, peers through with one of the most stunning art pop works in this decade.
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The Christmas classic is not only honest about the holiday season, but it also examines the American Dream as being just a dream.
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Capsule Reviews (December 2025 – Part 1) – Panda Bear, Danny Brown, Candelabro…
2025, Abstract Hip Hop, art pop, Art Rock, Baroque/Chamber Pop, Conscious Hip Hop, Danny Brown, experimental, Experimental Rap, Experimental Rock, Hard Rock, indie, indie folk, indie pop, indie rock, Lady Gaga, music, Neo-psychedelia, new-music, Political Hip Hop, Pop Rap, post-punk, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Pop, review, reviews, Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Slacker Rock
The first part of this month’s Capsule Reviews is filled with comments on a wide variety of albums!
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Capsule Review (November 2025) – Richard Sallis, Cheap Trick, Mateus Aleluia…
2025, Abstract Hip Hop, American Primitivism, art pop, Art Rock, Baroque/Chamber Pop, Complextro, Conscious Hip Hop, EDM, experimental, Experimental Rap, Experimental Rock, Hard Rock, House Music, indie, indie folk, indie pop, indie rock, Jazz Rap, music, Neo-psychedelia, New Wave, new-music, Noise Rock, Pop Rap, post-rock, Progressive Pop, review, reviews, Rock, Slacker Rock
As a prelude to the upcoming month, this edition of Capsule Review looks into rock, pop, and rap!
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Short, straightforward, and subtly showy sums the amethyst in the rough that is British singer-songwriter Arthur Elliot’s 7th self-recorded album.
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Charles Manson is one of the most notorious figures in pop culture history. His avant-psych style folk debut album is utter feces. This isn’t going to be a long retrospective album review that I would occasionally do with something like the Dismemberment Plan or Okkervil River. This is going to be more of a smaller…
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