On “ANXIETY” Almondmilkhunni’s sparkling potion of pop and R&B and Kailee Morgue’s bubbly mixture of soft pop and indie-rock wrap around each other to create a single that is equal parts cyberpunk and fairy-core.
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Madisenxoxo has retained that initial vulnerability when it comes to song-writing, but the latter
boast much denser and ornately textured soundscapes. Professionally trained in the Jazz genre,
and debuting with a contemporary sound of bedroom pop in the frenetically innovative vein of
beabadoobee, Clairo and Billie Eilish’s debut studio-release, Don’t Smile at Me, Madisenxoxo
has a cosmos of aural possibilities at her fingertips.
While collapsing an artist with two decades’ worth of music, eight diegetically-unique albums and such a number of production-phases that bringing up how many times the band has broken up and gotten back together is one of the Emo scene’s most cited in-jokes, is arguably an indiscriminate judgement call, I would describe “Hold Me Like a Grudge” as quintessentially Fall Out Boy.
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The cranked amps, rougher edges and harder crashes of the band’s sophomore album are just as central and explosive, but the albums’ dispositions are markedly distinct: if Who Am I? was a journal chronicling the falling in of love, Unwanted is the falling out of love.
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