OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN‐INSIDES

You know how they say not to judge a book by it's cover.

Yeah, I did. I was right. This is terrible

Hyperpop-genren uraauurtaja. Tää levy on musta kuitenkin kiinnostavampi olemassaolonsa kuin kuuntelukokemuksen takia, joten jätetään neloseen.

Even if I don't absolutely adore this album, it's so nice to hear something with some actual grit and emotion after the last couple albums I've gotten. Sophie was one of the best producers out there, and her sudden passing is still heartbreaking. I can understand this being a lot for those not too keen on this sort of production, but this truly was a new wave of music that opened the door for artists like 100 gecs, and really put Charli XCX on the map. And this album gives you a nice sampler package of all of that. And when it hits, it HITS.

bad idea to listen to late at night. Even worse idea to watch the video for "Faceshopping" late at night.

I suspected I might like this for her prod. work with Vince Staples and Charli, and I really did for the most part. Every time I think I've defined the limits of what music I like, along comes someone like SOPHIE who says "Reconsider."
Rewarding once I got past the eardrum-shattering, distorted percussion

HL: "It's Okay to Cry", "Faceshopping", "Is It Cold in the Water?", "Pretending"

October 11, 2025

Educational! It's a big deal album, but only within genres that I don't tend to fuck with. I like it least when it's being club music, but I like it a lot when it's doing distorted glitchy nonsense, and that distortion seems to seep right into the track sequencing—the opening track is very misleading for what the rest of the album's going to do, and dropping from that immediately into Ponyboy is so goddamn funny.

Wow this is mega pop. This is really a forward looking album sound, but good god is it sonically grating at times. Though I guess you know its really pushing into something new if it occasionally pisses old guys like me off. Immaterial is club banger. You can definitely hear this album's fingerprints on Chali XCX's BRAT.

Not really my cup of tea, feels a bit all over the place and. Chaotic, but clearly has had an influence o a lot fi the modern pop music today. So based on that probably merits its place on this list.

Overrated topsters-core inclusion. OP doesn't actually care about this music, just put it here to look like he has good internet-denizen taste.

Absolute pish, why was this nominated? It is like the background music in a shite tv show for stupid people.

Not a single good track here, just repetitive beats and terrible singing.

Possibly worse than that Nico album I had to endure a few years back; certainly the first since then that I thought might be the worst album ever recorded.

I was literally wishing for it to be over, thankfully it only lasted 39 mins, but it's 39 too many.

Zero stars

Was put off by poppiness of the first song, but it got progressively more intense and experimental as it went along until I was finally on board.