Album Rating: 3.0

about halfway through and i'm not seeing either the intense praise or intense hatred really. this feels like music that you'd throw on in the background because it's unintrusive when you want to work and not be distracted and i don't think that's a bad thing to be really, but i think it's probably worth a 3 at least

Album Rating: 1.5

"this feels like music that you'd throw on in the background because it's unintrusive when you want to work and not be distracted"



Personally I really value my non-active-listening music and have a long list of albums I'd choose over this for that purpose. Also hatred is a strange emotion for me and one I wouldn't really say I actually have for music of any sort? Beyond rhetorical hyperbole of course. I intended to posture this much more as being a 'Very Poor' album instead of something I passionately hate, yunno? Ratings are something I'm pretty postmodern about

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah i usually reserve anything below like...2? for stuff that I have some level of active disdain for (e.g: appetite for destruction), or find so hard to get through that anything higher feels wrong (e.g: trout mask replica, i know it has love in outsider circles but that was really hard for me to enjoy)

yeah always found this guys stuff to be pretty mind-numbingly predictable

i do think that hearing this now maybe is not quite as fair as it was when it was released considering how dated the chillstep sound has been for basically a decade at this point, and it def had a little appeal then when the style was still finding it's legs, but without any investment in that style there is very little enticing here, and personally i thought it was always one of the lamest excuses for 'dubstep' in any case, at least the brostep stuff had energy and interesting sound design

Album Rating: 1.0

Yeah what Fowl said is spot on. I also have a fairly significant selection of low-input, ambient or ‘background-like’ music that’s just way more pleasant. The crudeness of the sound design is actually off-putting, yet it simultaneously feels basic and undercooked

I don’t “hate” this (overly strong) but that doesn’t prevent me from thinking this represents something that’s ‘completely devoid of musical value’ about as well as anything I’ve heard recently. The last time I awarded the lowest score was when I battled through despite wanting to turn it off after 3 minutes. This made me feel similarly.

Wish I could pos this review so hard.

woah that's a squirrel

brostep. lmao

Album Rating: 3.5

Putting Brostep and Djent on the same wavelengths seems like an egregious misnomer.

It's more like Brostep and Metalcore are parallels with Riddim & Djent being their respective bastard children.



Brostep = Oversaturated, but with the potential for interesting synths, drops, sound dynamics, etc.

Metalcore = Oversaturated, but with the potential for interesting riffs, breakdowns, atmosphere, etc.



Riddim = Oversaturated to an absurd degree with no justification. Completely outbred and effectively killed its parent genre after 2015. Every single song consists of an incompetent tard going back and forth between the same 2 synth notes. 95% of it has no interesting qualities whatsoever and sounds like shit. The remaining 5% would still be better if it used cooler synthesizers.

Djent = Oversaturated to an absurd degree with no justification. Completely outbred and effectively killed its parent genre after 2015. Every single song consists of an incompetent tard going back and forth between the same 2 guitar notes. 95% of it has no interesting qualities whatsoever and sounds like shit. The remaining 5% would still be better if it used a good guitar tone.

Album Rating: 5.0

Can we stop talking about traditional brostep. Its terrible, please stop tainting this thread with traditional brostep and the utter dogshit that is riddim. This album recontextualizes brostep into a much more somber and meditative approach. The host of different instruments on display. For example, the bridge of "Oh Miah" is transcendent. That string instrument segment is utterly heavenly, filled with pure tranquility and serenity.

Album Rating: 3.5

But I want to talk about brostep, because brostep is the peak of electronic music.

Album Rating: 5.0

I understand that brostep is forever tainted by the traditional kind, but artists have been taking that genre and improving upon it for years now. Incorporating a lot more dramatic and cinematic elements into the music, and making the drops far less obnoxious.

Lmao shut the hell up Tundra.