It’s an edit or two away from being a great pop album, but Mariel Loveland’s newest is still her strongest body of work under the Best Ex moniker yet, to a considerable degree.
Tag: alt-pop
In this Review Round-Up, Annisokay and Samurai Pizza Cats respectively hit heavy and fall short in metalcore; Guilt Trip deliver a strong metallic hardcore debut; and Rocket Pengwin establishes some decent contemporary pop-punk.
The good qualities of NOT A TOY’s debut full-length are far outweighed by how bland and uninteresting this angle in alt-trap-pop has become
In the process of reinvention and redefinition yet again, PVRIS instead fall into the worst impulses of 2010s alt-pop with very rare success in rectifying them.
After a handful of false starts and shaky landings, Halflives’ newest EP represents a clear high-point in their alt-pop swings, with some of their most successful material to date.
Loaded with difficult-to-parse decisions that weigh it down more than lift it up, Meg Myers’ newest alt-pop foray proves hard to find a lot of light in.
In this Review Round-Up, Clean Cut Kid and Young Culture prove decent (but little more) in indie-folk and pop-rock respectively, while Pryti’s new album struggles to catch much fire.
In this Review Round-Up, there’s a much-improved shake-up from Unprocessed and some engaging new alt-rock from WAAX, filled in by Heart Of Gold’s expected fare.
Mothica’s new album might have more conceptual detail than many of its alt-pop contemporaries, but under-delivers in other areas to average out as rather middling.