Niklas Pivic

What a nice album! As though The Byrds hung out with Teenage Fanclub and The Wannadies. Very melodic, jangly Rickenbacker-y guitar sounds. Also reminded me of Silver Sun. All of this while having written their own songs which aren't pastiche at all.

Guitars and the rest: old-school black metal kind of Darkthrone-ish.
Song: screeeeeeeam
Production: pushing every little speck of shrill noise at you, especially from the crash cymbals

These are good songs! As a previous reviewer said, there's nothing new to find, but this is good enough to make me need the next album that these guys are going to make.

Very nice neo-classical piano-led album. I really dig the inclusions of everyday items—coins jangling, walking sounds—and the composition of songs just...gel.

As though Teenage Fanclub had a baby with Alvvays, My Bloody Valentine, and Johnny Marr, this is a melodic and still down-low guitar-based rock album. Lovely to hear. Will re-listen.

Very nice mix that again proves that Garnier evolves as the years go by. This mix shows maturity, breadth, and fun. I've discovered quite a few artists and tracks due to Garnier.

I (probably erroneously) remember The Legendary Pink Dots as some kind of watered-down and less interesting version of Current 93. I'm glad to say my memory is damaged or, if it's right, the band is more interesting than ever!

Some of these songs are really lovely, for example, 'Darkest Knight', which is dreamy.

Altogether, the album just swept me into the band's own world. The production and sound of the album is really nice. Enveloping, nice, mature.

Hyperpop meets screamo and a lo-fi acoustic guitar! Plus melodies back and forth. And some noise.

This is a fairly interesting soundtrack; it's not your garden variety boring plucky-strings-and-Downton-Abbey stuff, but more interesting, Pierre Boulez-type of shit. One can tell that Chalmin has collaborated a lot with Thom York on a lot of orchestral stuff on Yorke's solo albums.

I really enjoy this old-school black-metal album! Nice melodies, dissonant chords, nearly a home-made feeling to it... While I enjoy the screams, the barytone vocal is like having AI write your wedding vows: it just shouldn't have happened, but fortunately, there's very little of that after the first two songs. Try this!

Another growing and visceral soundtrack from EITS, topped off with a brilliant cover of Woody Guthrie's song 'My Land' at the end. Works well as background music at work, even though I surmise it would be nice to consciously listen to.

I knew nothing of Klara Lewis before starting to listen to this album.

After a couple of songs, I wondered what the hell I'd gotten myself into.

The first part was nearly pop-ish; the end was something like Primal Scream mixed by Kevin Shields: noise, mayhem, oblivion, destruction, fast winds through broken metal sheets.

This is a very pleasant surprise!

This is quite a nice, Hollywood-but-not-plucky-strings-predictable type of Hollywoodesqueness that could have been the case. I like a lot of the 'aaaaaaaaAAAAH!' human-voice breathy things that come and go. Kind of reminded me of Diamanda Gàlas's vocals in the 'Dracula' film by Francis Ford Coppola.

The Quietus wrote nicely about this album.

This is a lovely and weird mix between oddness and pop. It's composed and constructed a bit like a...Tetris game. ProTools-ed out, but in a good way.

The album starts out like something by Alessandro Cortini: slow-building, electronic, analogue, and then, in the second track, going into pop.

That kind of set me up for the album.

OK, I've heard it once, but I have to hear it again. This is a lovely album that can sate an unruly soul. I dig the orchestral bits, by the way. Feels like this duo like to collaborate with others and are really playful. I dig this.

I dig the references to Einstürzende Neubauten, both in the lyrics for the first song, and then the music itself at the start of 'Norrut/Söderut'.

As a whole, I think this is Thåström's best album in roughly two decades, as a whole. I love the track 'Förälskad' and there's a lot to love in 'Det årets kallaste kväll', the album closer.

An album that successfully blends brutality with sophistication.

The Quietus have posted a nice review of the album.

Every time I listen to Melt-Banana, my mind feels trebucheted through the World. Intensity+high speed+very sharp turns=a lovely album.

A bit like a black-metal band playing covers of The Cure songs, tainted with a lot of Sonic Youth influence. Some tracks really got to me, I'll listen to this again.

This reminds me of Torres but on downers. Some of the songs on this album are lovely, for example, 'Petco'. I enjoyed a lot of the interludes and ideas that made their way into the album; sudden inspiration should find its way into albums far more often.

A really lovely and loving album by a band that has taken a lot of time to craft their sound.

Lovely, fuzzed-out, and distance-spaced reverby stoner rawk, ham-fisted and nice.