Album Rating: 4.8

Ironic

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

Lol

got his ass

Ironicen

Album Rating: 4.8

illicit affairs here is slowly starting to become my favorite... exile though, that still hits hard

Album Rating: 4.5

A few grammatical suggestions:

"one that resorts back to her older style with a revitalized folk, atmospheric-tinge to it"

the last part of that reads weird to me - I might restructure the sentence to read "with a revitalized, atmospherically-tinged folk..."

"cohesively connects each track seamlessly together"

might just be me but this seems redundant; if something was cohesively connected, my assumption is that it will be relatively seamless...also watch overuse of adjectives across the board - they're good for describing the music but when used in excess can make the piece read clunky

"Acoustics, orchestration, piano, dreamy atmosphere, lofty vocals, all of which culminate into this amalgamation of melody and beauty."

this is a fragment

"The contribution of Bon Iver on “exile,” the mastery of Aaron Dessner’s songwriting and composition accompanied by Jack Antonoff, they all elicit this stunning presence of beauty within the folklore."

Saw you do this a few times elsewhere too. These kinds of sentences where you list attributes first and then put a comma between that and what you want to say about them reads strange to me. I would have written this sentence as: "folklore's stunning beauty can be found in Bon Iver's contributions, Aaron Dessner's masterful songwriting and composition, and Jack Antonoff's production contributions..." or something like that I dunno. Unless I'm misunderstanding the point of the sentence!

"With these new created characters"

*newly

"bare and exposed filled with grand discovery."

within the context of this sentence, this really needs a comma between "exposed" and "filled"

Album Rating: 4.5

TL;DR - This is actually a very lovely review in terms of your main points, but at times there's a rambly, over-explaining nature to the writing that makes it a bit hard to follow. A few times I had to go back and re-read a sentence because I lost track of what it was you were trying to say. My advice would be to aim for brevity more often, and make sure each sentence is working towards making a specific point. There were a handful of moments in this review where I found myself impressed with the eloquence of your writing, but it left me unmoved one way or the other because it didn't really make a specific point or convince me that this is worthy of a perfect 5/5 score. A lot of it was just pleasant, generalized remarks about how nice this sounds but, IMO, what separates a good reviewer from a contributor or staff member is the ability to grab the reader by the neck and convince them of something - anything. I thought this was a good review but if I disliked the album on first listen, I don't think this piece would have been the one to convince me otherwise. (I'm being harsh because I see you as on the precipice of becoming an even better writer - so please take this as tough love, not an outright dismissal of your writing, which is quite good!). Anyway, hope that helps!

you might need a TL;DR for your TL;DR

but nah actually I agree with SS, this is obv a positive review but the 5/5 justification is lacking a bit

Album Rating: 4.8

haha thanks Sowing! Means a lot that you take the time to critique it and I appreciate the tough love, pushes me to work on it even more. I've definitely always had an issue with brevity in my writing (heck, even me talking with people I have a tough time keeping it concise haha), but it's definitely something I wanna work on more. And I'll definitely be working on making my review reflect the opinion of the score itself, give it that "attention-grabbing" effect rather than a simple explanation taken at a rather surface level

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Sowing retired from album reviews and moved on to review reviews

Album Rating: 4.8

what's your review review rating sowing

Album Rating: 4.5

3.5/5

Soundoff: tyman128 delivers another solid review to his ever growing repertoire. This won't be his artistic breakthrough, which I think he has somewhere hidden in him, but it's still better than 70 percent of the reviews floating around the internet these days. Would pos, but not get it tattooed on my back.

Album Rating: 4.8

a Sowing 3.5?? I'll take it haha. Hopefully my artistic breakthrough will come someday soon

3.5 is the score ppl give to friends’ albums that we give a cursory listen to and then never spin again. it’s a worse score than a 3 and a lowkey diss tbh, I’d be very very chapped if I were you

Album Rating: 4.8

oh... nevermind screw you Sowing

😈

Album Rating: 4.5

There are a lot of my own reviews I'd give less than a 3.5

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

We are our own biggest critic



Well.... I guess sach is probably your biggest critic actually

Album Rating: 4.8

We are all second to sach when it comes to critiquing our own work

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

Hahaha