rolling twenty-something RYM/internet stuff like hyperpop, hypnagogic pop, hexD, vaporwave, dungeon synth, cloud rap, nightcore, black midi, future funk, dariacore, seapunk, blown out anime voices, br

Toxicity tends to meet with resistance on RYM

oh when i was in my peak music binge era, circa 2018, i lived off rym's charts and lists. the lists are a great resource - i find an obscure weird album, see what lists it's on, and go see what else is on those lists. i just literally haven't had time for music. there was _one_ message board, too, where people just posted new albums that had very few reviews - that was my go-to thread. the rest of the boards, though, them i didn't click with.

and yeah the mods there, they're good mods, they don't put up with any 4chan shit there. you can still see it in the way that the hyped transfem records... like, folks there don't dig on 100 gecs or tami t or nothing like that. it's all dysphoria gang over there as far as i can tell.

Oh of course, you do all those reviews lol. When nobody else rode for that Dissociatives album, one alone stood to represent

most of my rym reviews are from my/rym's shitpost era, one of the things i _really_ love is that they've gone through the effort to unpublish my crappy meme reviews that don't meet their current review standards so that nobody has to see that crap anymore. writing shitty record reviews in the late '00s definitely helped me a lot as far as becoming a better writer.

i do love the dissociatives record, but then again i'm a sucker for anything with mellotron on it :)

Oh I love it too lol, it has some of the greatest cod-psych excess ever recorded. Second and second-last tracks especially never leave my head.

RYM DOES unpublish pretty readily, doesn't it? I've had a few of my own one-liners zapped. The fact they have any standards at all is a great positive, even if they let some fairly dubious stuff survive (probably because people don't care enough to flag it up)

lol those are my best reviews

Always curious about their unpublishing policy. Still far too many joke one-line reviews with +35 likes at the top for my liking :((

that wu-lu is quite something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2T963FYU0

announce the album already!

so excited for this album

this is so good!

https://www.100percentelectronica.com/collections/deaths-dynamic-shroud-darklife/products/deaths-dynamic-shroud-darklife-cd-pre-order

it is announced

it gives me a sense of ENORMOUS well-being

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FX--cgEWQAAlE3r?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

It’s been a while since I’ve had that surefire “this’ll be AOTY” feeling

yeah i’m with map, really don’t get the enthusiasm for this.

ftr i wasn't commenting on any music specifically, it was just a badly considered general meme shitpost

honestly "Neon Memories" is the first thing I've heard that sounds like what I imagined pop in 2022 would have sounded like back in 1997

Okay I listened to Neon Memories on my studio monitors and it’s pretty great, not exactly my cuppa but I was into it! sorry for doubting, I just didn’t remember liking any of the stuff from the new one

just sounds like "Life in a Northern Town" with glitch to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xlUgAalQ7I

loving this album

Oh, that's cool! She seems to be getting more bonkers every time I dip into her stuff.

the whole 4s4ki album (killer in neverland) is great, i think it's her best yet

oooh, this opening track is supremely promising

gr8 album

new fievel is glaque ("go down softly" is new, i'm pretty sure i've heard "the river" already). more like fievel is yacht, amirite?

https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/go-down-softly-the-river

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPNcSUqM9Cw

Math rock/YouTube shred guys collab w Asian-American pop/R&B singer - bizarro-world Autotuned English-Japanese shred-pop. Over 2M views in 12 days. Imago not a fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtd24QIBJ5Y

dds album is pretty good but definitely longer than it needs to be & not every track really works

counterpoint: this is an overwhelming but fantastic first listen, suspect it will only deepen with more. clearly a major achievement

it's almost there but "fade persona" is a dud for one

noooooooo

i will have my kitsch glitch-goth

RYM going gaga over this at the moment. glad to hear it's living up to expectations but I'm gonna be a doofus and wait until the record arrives

counterpoint: this is an overwhelming but fantastic first listen, suspect it will only deepen with more. clearly a major achievement

― imago, Friday, September 23, 2022 6:39 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

My thoughts as well. Though most of it is ultra-maximalist and hyperactive, after one listen the more ballad-like songs made the deepest impression on me ("Missing Person", "Before I Cool Off", "Where Does It Come From?"). Tech and James are both fantastic singers

a bit shorter and aoty contender for me

love this

https://xquisitereleasess.bandcamp.com/album/the-fertile-crescent-strategy-of-two-heavens-xqu022

did imago start a black dresses thread or does this go here? anyway they got a new tune. i still don't like their music but the video is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR7XG15XIzg

this is great

and there is OUT OF FLUX WITH THE UNIVERSE: the canada trans electropop scene

that's the one i was thinking of, well i'm not gonna repost it here anwyay

Darklife is fantastic. Thank you all for talking up Neon Memories, without which I never would have checked out the album. AOTY contender for me. I even like Fade Persona!

honestly "Neon Memories" is the first thing I've heard that sounds like what I imagined pop in 2022 would have sounded like back in 1997

So otm.

Yes. Messe de E-102 is the one for me though, it is just the most spectacular thing

Messe is a real highlight.

I've been stimming on Light Left the Garden a lot today too. The second verse where it drops down to pretty much just the synth slap bass and vocals is soooo good.

weekend highlight was this reissue

https://foamonawave.bandcamp.com/album/trance-balance

Will have a listen! New Fire-Toolz is occupying me for the moment. It's sounding absolutely wonderful 3 tracks in. Soda Lake With Game Genie especially really quite something

https://fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-not-use-the-bodys-eyes-today

yep this has been my morning too, delightful stuff

I really love the dds record, and while it's obviously doing different things than the Fire-Toolz record, one of the things that appeals about dds and some Orange Milk associated products is that the vocals are heavily processed but pleasant to listen to. Once the black metal vocals come in with Fire-Toolz, I nope out— totally ruins it for me.

p sure Fire-Toolz knows her vocals are an aesthetic choice that will alienate a lot of otherwise receptive listeners, but I can only commend her boldness in not compromising the vision. glad to have you on one of the shipboards at least!

oh i know, and at first with FT i sort of liked it, but there's a reason i don't listen to a lot of black metal— i just don't like the scratchy incomprehensible vocals. if FT utilized the low, cookie-monter demon growl, I might be more receptive.