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Ride Or Die- Foster The People and The Knocks Out Of My League- Fitz and the Tantrums Someone To You DJ Mike D Remix- BANNERS Spirit Driver- Bear Hands Lift Yourself- Kanye West (This song is just... TOO good) Better Off- Handsome Ghost You Get Me So High- The Neighbourhood I played Better Off accidentally, and it just captivated me. The DJ Mike D remix just makes the song better, I'm about to buy Out Of My League on vinyl and four words for Lift Yourself "BLOOP THERE GOES YEEZUS".

Foster The People have just come off the stretch of a very successful third album, so it was only natural they collided with The Knocks. The Knocks have constantly been collaborating with many successful artists from the alternative scene in the past couple years, like X Ambassadors, Walk The Moon and more recently the surprise smash Best Friends with Sofi Tukker and friends. The songs starts with a bright but pretty traditional keyboard, and the washy synths and guitars that characterized Foster The People's Sacred Hearts Club of last year. Then it drops into a thumping, modern RnB/dance rhythm that marks The Knocks. The song continues with an atmosphere that seems to float in the clouds but still be connected to the dance floor, and guitar placement reminiscent of Phoenix's smooth, filtered pop rock style. The lyrical content is okay, but Foster The People has been mostly about vibe than meaning recently. The song ends leaving you happy, but not really fulfilled. The structur...

CLOSE- Rae Stremmurd ft. Travis Scott 90210- Travis Scott Flying High- Travis Scott ft. Toro y Moi Goosebumps- Travis Scott Interlude- ISLAND Try- ISLAND 109- Toro y Moi The Way Things Change- Yellow Days The Beautiful Dream- George Ezra

I've been following ISLAND since I found them accidentally while perusing past Flying Vinyl releases on Discogs (they've done it twice), and decided to give them a listen. Their deceptively slow songs with very clean, arpeggiating and cascading guitars backed by casual drums and the raw voice of Rollo Doherty were infectious, and obviously many others feel the same and it was impossible to find one of their previous records at a good price. The album cycles between many types of slick guitar playing, with scales chords and everything in between, an efficient interplay between guitars and tempos, and multiple filters on the guitars. Rollo Doherty doesn't disappoint, his soulful vocals filling the songs with emotion. The bass and drums don't try to do anything fancy, but they effectively drive and hold together the songs. Try is a bit weird for its synth basis, but it does work and fits with the aesthetic of the album. The guitar work is pretty impressive and the mixing g...

Thirty Seconds To Mars has certainly been changing. They started off as a very heavy band, full of guitar riffs and muscle, and know they make songs that sometimes have almost no instruments in them, purely synths and loops and drums. They started off this album quite awhile ago, with the singles Walk On Water and Dangerous Night, which both became medium sized hits but didn't go a tremendous distance. Like always, this album is characterized by grandiose hard hitting tracks of a medium speed with all the trappings of 2010s arena rock, but this time without as much pure heavy guitar and more modern electronic drums and keyboards. It's interesting to see a classic 30 STM chorus break down to the frantic off kilter sampling of modern dance pop, and the stripping down of their sound works well sometimes. keyword sometimes- in some cases they just turn it back to their old style, putting so many tracks in your head hurts and you feel like the song's closing in on you, and somet...

King Charles- YUNGBLUD Shotgun- George Ezra Get Away- George Ezra Buster Cannon- AJ Tracey Champions League- AJ Tracey Caveman- The Burgeoning Rain- The Burgeoning

George Ezra exploded into the world's musical consciousness in 2014 with an international platinum hit in Budapest, a second top ten hit in the UK and a number one album across the world. He came back sometime last year with Don't Matter Now, a flop compared to the number two UK hit in the second single, Paradise, and the the number one UK album that I'm about to review. The album starts with a duo of familiar singles, showcasing the gently catchy style George Ezra is famous for. Pretty Shining People is a bit of a standout, talking about George Ezra's anxiety about the future, and being stuck in the past, which is mirrored in his music. It seems that throughout the album his lyrics could be from any time since 1930, with very little hint of the 21st century. The instrumentals also all seem like pop instrumentals from the postwar era, but with the occasional electronic beat and frill added in by the producer to try to turn George Ezra into more of a modern Chainsmokers ...