[REVIEW] Aries - BELIEVE IN ME, WHO BELIEVES IN YOU
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/241374
Guitar heavy production punctuated nearly every track by a face-punch bass on the chorus. Honestly, I vibe with it.
There's a decent amount of synths, the percussion is a bit deaf but it does its job.
Everything is a bit blown-out, which is definitely not for everyone, but I'm a huge hyperpop fan so this is really not an issue for me in the slightest.
Here's what is an issue: every track is the same. What I said applies to every track, everything sounds the same. I appreciate cohesion in an album, I do, but COME THE FUCK ON MAN, EVERY TRACK?!
Not to mention, every song is so short that this project really just feels like 30 minutes of Aries' vaguely whiny voice talking about some hypothetical lover and his success in the industry over blown out pop guitars. There you go, that's the album. It's a sludge of mediocrity... I felt like I was drowning the whole way through.
His flows are OK, I guess. His singing is OK, I guess.
But really, the production and the performance aren't the worst... The lyrics, god. A couple of highlights follow.
Song: ETA
Prada shades I can't see through
Hello, mamacita
How long can I breathe for, under
So sentimental, zoom, zoomSong: ONE PUNCH
You took a shot for the magazines, yeah
Another shot, John Kennedy
It feels to me like Aries wrote a bunch of cool (?) choruses, produced the same beat 12 times, and just put them together, filling them out with whatever words he could pluck out of his brain. I mean, this dude is very talented, but this is NOT IT.
Perhaps I'm misjudging his music, I'm willing to admit that. Is this a compilation of stand-alone songs mislabelled as an album?