Category Album Review

Album Review – Humble Quest by Maren Morris

It’s impossible to dislike Maren Morris. Not only is she one of the few women in country who’s been able to build a sustained charting presence, but she’s done so with some pretty damn great songs. Minus a few pop…

Album Review – I NEVER DIE by (G)I-dle

When people ask me who my favourite K-pop band are, I finally have an answer that isn’t just “uhhh… idk BTS I guess?” (G)-Idle won me over in a big way in January 2021 with I Burn, a remarkably eclectic…

Album Review – Dawn FM by The Weeknd

The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ was the biggest pop song of 2020. That fact will never fail to amaze me. Not just because the song is indeed amazing and deserved to break all the records that it did, but also because…

Album Review – FIRST IMPACT by Kep1er

It’s difficult to know how to feel about Kep1er. Something about a ten-piece girl group where the youngest is sixteen and the oldest is twenty-five that was artificially formed out of a reality show just doesn’t sit well with me.…

Album Review – Novella by Up10tion

I’m not sure the whole ‘mini-album’ thing a lot of K-pop bands do works for me a whole lot. Don’t get me wrong, I like a good breakup album (which is where a lot of these projects tend to fall…

Album Review – Kidney Failure

On some level I get the appeal of an album like this… the appeal is that there is no appeal, and you listen to it entirely ironically because everything about it flat-out sucks. If this was going for parody of…

Album Review – Son Tzu & The Wav.God

Kicking off 2022 with some scrumptiously produced hip-hop out of Toronto. The latest collaboration between rapper Daniel Son and producer Futurewave gives us an abbreviated albeit likable album that will win some folks over on the vibes alone. Although some…