Category: 13/30

• taylor swift – midnights

  

  Midnights is centred around late-night contemplation. It ends up with the lucidity of Taylor bolting up at night to frantically scribe her thoughts, only to realise in the morning that she had actually written “sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby”. Yes, that line made the cut—it is one of the many strained […]

  Oliver M

  October 28, 2022

  13/30, pop, singer-songwriter

  album review, new music, pop, taylor swift

• drake – honestly, nevermind

  

  A pop artist exploring beyond their sound and weaving through expectation is a good set up. Just this year, an emboldened ROSALÍA gave us the brilliant ‘MOTAMAMI’. The trouble with ‘Honestly, Nevermind’, is that it is not experimental to anyone but Drake himself. The beats pass by like an artificial water park river, occasionally pumping […]

  Seth Rice

  June 24, 2022

  13/30, dance, house

  album review, drake, new album

• arms and sleepers – former kingdoms

  

  Arms and Sleepers’ early records were abundant in personality, despite not pushing many boundaries. The music moved with unpredictable and astral rhythms, out of which industrial sounds shot up sprightly. But that engaging quality has generally eroded and ‘former kingdoms’ marks a sharp decline. It is an album of inevitabilities: never less than tolerable, never […]

  Seth Rice

  May 11, 2022

  13/30, ambient, electronic

  album review, ambient, new music