The Batlord

Is it 50% Korean pop for no apparent reason?

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Paedantic Basterd

Iunno, I just skimmed it to find the ones Trolly missed.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

february was kind of a weak month imo

Strange U - #LP4080
The Courtneys - II
Pouya & Fat Nick - Drop Out Of School

two of these three are hip-hop. you might hate them but i'm trying to get a better grasp of what you actually like in the genre. in case you do indeed hate them i will apologize now.

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Hmm. Response has been better than last month.
Okay, tell you what: rather than wait to start March while I listen to all those albums (or as many as I can) I'm going to review them as I go through March, and will preface them with the "Not On The List" logo.

If you don't like that, you can suck a dick.

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Would it be an idea to listen to albums not on the list for the month in question when you got to the appropriate date? For example, let’s say everyone pitched in with their April recommendations before you started with the reviews for that month, and one of the albums suggested was released on April 13. Then you would simply listen to that album once you got to that date in the Wiki list. Or maybe you prefer carrying on the way you’ve done it thus far?

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Trollheart

Yeah, I prefer to get the month finished, then take recs for anything not on the list. Last month it was just Frown and Qwerty, so I could listen to them before heading into February, but now I have like twelve albums to listen to, and I don't want to delay getting into March, so I'm going to do it like this. I know it's not perfect, but then, what is?

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No, I respect that, and ultimately it’s your decision alone how you want to do this, I was just thinking it might be a good way to integrate the non-list albums into the general process. Though I realise it would be kind of awkward to have to listen to March and April suggestions in one month, since you’ve already established a pattern of listening to them at the end of each month.

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Album title: World Eater
Artist: Blanck Mass
Genre: IDM/Techno/Dark Ambient
Nationality: English
Release date: March 3
Position in Discography: Third
Fear Factor: Moderate
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No
Average RYM Score: 3.48
Some/most of you will know the band Fuck Buttons; I don't. But this guy is apparently one of their founders – Benjamin John Power? Anyway, is it impressive stuff! Starts off quite ambient and gentle, then builds up to a powerful hammering driving electronic heartbeat that just really hits the spot. I really like the way everything flows organically together, so not only are you never sure which track you're listening to, but it really doesn't matter. There's nothing on this I don't like. It's far from wallpaper music as some instrumental music can be; this is music that demands to be listened to. You just can't ignore it. A thrill ride and sheer quality from start to finish. Superb.

Check out more from this artist? Oh **** yes. And Fuck Buttons too, if they're like this.
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes


Expectation Index: 10

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Album title: Emerald Island
Artist: Caro Emerald
Genre: Exotica
Nationality: Dutch
Release date: March 3
Position in Discography: Third overall; first EP
Fear Factor: High
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Was not even aware it existed
Average RYM Score: 3.50
What the flipping flip is exotica, as a musical genre? To Wiki, post haste! Oh, I see: a sanitised, fantasy version of island music. Caribbean beats for white folks. Hmm. Sounds less than promising. Well this is only an EP so we'll see. Looks like she has Guy Chambers working on her material, he of Robbie Williams fame. Take that as you will. Yea, kinda sounds like maybe the stuff you'd hear play in bars in the fifties whose owners thought they were exotic (hence the genre tag, I suppose) or maybe on cruise ships. There's an attempt to reggae the third song up, but it's clearly white man's reggae and just laughable. Not sure why a Dutch woman is trying to recreate the fantasy music of the islands, but there you go. Pretty sanitised and annoying, to be honest. “Exotic Flu” is particularly so, just a few notes repeated on a piano. Sigh. And back to the reggae we go. Mon. Where's the lifebuoy? Let me off this ship! I'll take me chances with the sharks.

Check out more from this artist? Not while there's breath in my body
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Not while there's, you know...


Expectation Index: 0

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Album title: stuff i used to do
Artist: Deadmau5
Genre: Electronic/Progressive House/Breakbeat/IDM
Nationality: Canadian
Release date: March 3
Position in Discography: Fifteenth
Fear Factor: High
Familiar with this artist? Heard one album, didn't like it
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No
Average RYM Score: N/A
Pretty much as I expected. The simple melody behind “Screen Door” is appealing, but the mechanised voice recording that accompanies it is annoying. The thing about this is that the music is, generally, all right, but I'm not one of those who enjoys the use of recorded voices, effects, sounds etc run alongside or on top of the music, and so that leaves little for me here. That said, the current track I'm listening to, which is ten minutes long (“HaxPigMeow”) is pretty good. The next one's good too. See, when he sticks to the music I can take this, but while I can listen to it, I won't remember it, and compared to Blanck Mass previously, this is much lower grade in my opinion. It's made me hate Deadmau5 a little less, but I still don't like him.

Check out more from this artist? Unlikely
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes


Expectation Index: 4

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