A cheerful, upbeat cheesiness reminiscent of all the late 80s comedy opening songs. Pretty nostalgic, 3/5.
Spiral out, keep going.
This was a weird listen, to say the least. 7/10.
Atlas
I sense a kind of modernised Daft Punk in here, perhaps because of the sliced-up combination of samples and electronic melodies and the robot vocals. It's interesting enough to hold my attention for 5&1/2 minutes, but it lacks the spark of true greatness and I can't quite put my finger on why I feel that way. Ah, well. 7/10
Tastes better on the way back down.
Good song. I'm not into Vince Staples but this was nice. The lyrics were pretty dope. The beat could've been better, though. 7/10.
Clipping.- Killer
A harsh beat that compliments harsh lyrics, sounds like noncommercial experimental hip-hop that I like. 8/10.
Linkin Park ft. Cody B. Ware & Ryu - Skin to Bone (Nick Catchdubs Remix)
I like noises.
The DJ didn't do such a great job, I think. The beat gets repetitive pretty fast, and a good portion of it sounds like undercooked 2012 dubstep. The hook isn't all that great either, seemingly performed by someone on Quaaludes. Both rappers' skills deserve respect, but the instrumental still manages to pull this track onto the negative side. (4/10)
Nonsense is better than no sense at all.
8/10. One of my favorites from Outkast. The beat is amazing, the chorus is catchy as fuck, and both Andre 3000 and Big Boi delivers great lyrics with smooth flows.
Foo Fighters-February Stars
I never could get why the Foo Fighters were so popular other than Dave Grohl being in Nirvana. They're decent, but I find their music, like this song, to be a little generic. It at least gets heavier as it goes, which is nice. 6.5/10.
Atlas
Say, weren't these guys part of the brostep bandwagon once upon a time? Seems they've realised a poppier flavour of dancefloor filler is the flavour of the month now. This honestly just sounds like every other track from the style people seem to have unilaterally slapped with the once-broad "EDM" label, and I care as little for it as the rest of the genre. 5/10
Tastes better on the way back down.
Nice, slow and wistful, 3/5.
The Avener feat. Kadebostany - Castle in the Snow
It's a pretty good deep house piece, and I like the vocals. 8/10.
I like noises.
Probably the most soothing dubstep track I've heard so far, save for Burial's work, but he's more melancholic with his samples. Here, meanwhile, the hook reminds me of those uplifting dance compositions of the early 00's where the video would show someone taking a train or something. It's like a landscape in that not much changes with time, but that's just fine, because it's about reveling in the moment. Thanks for this one, I'll check out more of this guy's stuff. (8/10)
edited 27th Jun '17 1:12:38 PM by Small_Mess
Nonsense is better than no sense at all.
7/10: Cryptic, almost shoegazy indie rock that nevertheless feels urgent and immediate.
It's decent, but I'm not really big in the whole '80s new wave music. 6/10.
Atlas
This sounds straight out of the classic Chicago house scene of the late 80s and early 90s, which makes it frankly head-tilting that it came out in the 2010s. This isn't a bad thing - the melody gets repetitive after a while, I'll admit, but there's a warmth to that old Chicago sound most modern EDM sorely lacks. 6/10
Tastes better on the way back down.
This feels like it was made for closing credits of a movie, as it has strong post-climactic, "denouement" vibes to it, 3/5.
Spiral out, keep going.
Weird. That's all I can say on this song, other than that I can't really appreciate this kind of weirdness because it's not pleasant on my ears. 5/10.
Granted, I can appreciate weird songs, like this one:
50/100 - I feel YMMV here based on how well you can tolerate precision high speed rigidly ordered rapping, like the vocal equivalent of frenetic metal riffing.
A pleasant, melancholic Mediterranean motif, 4/5.
Jesper Kyd - Main Title Extended (Hitman: Codename 47 OST)
6/10: Mysterious, vaguely d&b video game music. It certainly sounds like a product of its time, though.
Soft electronic soul music. It's pleasing to the ears, but also pretty forgettable. 6/10.
Musical equivalent of a jackhammer: repetitive, unsophisticated yet surprisingly effective. Once you get used to it it sends you in some kind of meditative trance, 4/5.
Disturbed - The Sound of Silence
edited 28th Jun '17 9:03:15 AM by Millership
Spiral out, keep going.
5/10: A weird song to reach the Top 40 in this day and age. Never a Disturbed fan, though.
Eh, this is okay. I guess since it's like a techno/IDM piece that it's supposed to sound like a weird trip. 6.5/10.
O.K. rock song, but the lyrics are dumb. Then again, it is a theme song for a kid's show, so what do you expect? 6/10.
Centerfold - J. Geils Band