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KIES – “You’re Golden” review
Final verdict: 6/10 ★★★☆☆ There are two types of “space music” out there: Louis Armstrong (space age), and Guernica (alien transmissions). Then there is KIES’ new single “You’re Golden,” which is rather preposterously queering the binary. Listen, I cannot understand what the guy is saying. His singing style can most aptly be described as “slurred mumbling”… Read more
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Brei Carter – “Country Lives In Me” review
Final verdict: 7/10 ★★★⋆˙⟡☆ I thought I was a country girl for having grown up in the country, and I thought I was a country girl for maladaptively daydreaming about fleeing the city on a bicycle and settling somewhere in the sunny meadows of rural Greece… But alas, here we have a country girl who not… Read more
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Dusty Edinger – “Welcome to Our Demise” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ Dusty… Dusty, Dusty, Dusty. I love your stuff, man, I really do. This was a great song (as I will briefly attempt to demonstrate, though it really does speak for itself), but why does the cover have to be AI-generated? AI will be our demise, so isn’t this all a little ironic?… Read more
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Black Astronaut Records – “China Shop” review
This review was paid for by Black Astronaut Records. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ On this gloomy, gloomy Tuesday morning, I humbly bring to you Black Astronaut Records’ 2023 single “China Shop” – a ballad swingin’ with… Read more
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Fried Fred – “Nonchalant” review
This review was paid for by Fried Fred. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Another fortnight long elapsed, another hip-hop record in the bag. I think that through my perusing this terrain, I am starting to grow fond… Read more
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Darrell Kelley – “Sick of This” review
This review was paid for by miamindmusic. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Between the hip-hop/R&B hybrid stylings (peep the synth strings, the heavily autotuned vocals, and the generously syncopated rap flow, all of which vaguely remind me… Read more
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Zachary Chacon – “Protest Song” review
This review was paid for by Zachary Chacon. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ A man of famously many names, Zachary Chacon is back with yet another banger under yet another name (this time his own!). “Protest Song”… Read more
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Eigh8t the Chosen One – “Inner Conflict” review
This review was paid for by ellg87. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ To quote a dead guy, “people can’t articulate a complete thought without quoting someone else,” or something to that effect. So, to introduce Eigh8t the… Read more
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The Heard Eye – “Point of You” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ Now this right here, this is funky, alright. I previously tackled The Heard Eye in a review of their “Plenty Love,” and one thing about their – objectively pretty groovy – work that I found plenty disappointing was the relative lack of funk. Sobriety in sound is a-okay, but it is not… Read more
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Logan Metz – “Sunrise/Overrated” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ By now, it would be no stretch of imagination to call me a person easily amused. Everything is interesting (and oftentimes fascinating) to me, and that can be taken to mean one of two things; either everything is indeed so peculiar as to warrant fancy, and I am right to recognize that… Read more
