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Incredible hidden gem from, I believe, Croatia—vaporwave sample and aesthetic, sharp and striking drill instrumental, and an utterly natural flow from all of our rappers here. Lavan's verse at the end is the weakest here, due to its shortened length and his autotune-inflected vocal style, but it's a very slight mark on an otherwise surprisingly fantastic piece. Try something new on for size, on me.
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Apr 30, 2025
i know some of the people in this band but i wouldn't rec it if i didn't think it was so an absolute banger, no idea what's going on musically sometimes but it's a VIBE and it feels FRESH
Feb 16, 2024
the instrumentality on this is something worth your attention. subtle enough to appreciate morally strengthening lyricism.
Apr 28, 2025
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Callie Nixon's debut album as flatroom is all it's cracked up to be and more. Not just content to be behind the boards as a talented producer with roots in the fledgling Dariacore scene, she's also an immensely affecting composer and singer-songwriter with influences from noughties-era country and folk. On I Don't Even Need, these two influences combine like headstrong bucks, relaxed and warm acoustic guitar-driven folk giving way to a rushing, soaring burst of happy hardcore arpeggios and energy. It's hands down the best song on the album, and it's really fighting for that spot between the album version of Blood sugar and the cover of When the Stars Go Blue.
Jun 22, 2025
Now here's a sound I wasn't expecting to hear again this year—that golden-era of pop-EDM crossover via Ke$ha and Taio Cruz. And, again, twisting the recipe harder, the song is advocating hard for pirating all your games and software—which somehow has double relevancy this week given I keep seeing posts on Twitter and Tumblr about somebody ironically named PirateSoftware shooting down campaigns to make piracy legal because it inconvenienced him. I wonder what that's about...
So, yes. Pop-EDM that's aping Dynamite pretty heavily while being nothing like it. More than any song she's made this decade so far, this one feels like it's having the most pure and distilled fun—something I'm aware is chalked up to my own nostalgia. It's very good music, anyway.
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From English math rock band Delta Sleep's 2018 full-length Ghost City comes a hell of an opening track, Sultans of Ping. The build-up is insane; emotionally evocative to a perfect T, a simple lyrical structure that keeps you hooked for its memorability, and the way its build seems to skitter off, filling in the extra details slowly and erratically like an oscilloscope drawing before blasting off. Devin Yüceil's voice is at a sweet low point that feels like an anchor in the ocean as it gets slowly buried under the layers of multi-tracking and instruments. It's worth every minute you give it, and sitting at just under five? That would be considered a steal if time was money.
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