i just realized i forgot to do this for these ones.
devin: this is a fine enough album, but it's really not breaking any new ground. failure is probably the best cut here, though i like the title track and the last two a fair bit as well (and yeah i know it's a cover but the long ambient outro is great too). he needs to stop, though. this doesn't feel as fresh as even sky blue, which wasn't even that fresh to begin with.
elder: i just. dig their sound. all five tracks have a pretty similar vibe to them but it's all the colorful guitar work and grooves that keep me interested in this. it's the kind of music i'd love to pick apart and find out how all the pieces work. doesn't hit me as hard as thank you scientist (which is in a similar vein) but i still like this
eluvium: the closer track on here is phenomenal and the rest of the album is pretty solid on the whole as well. looks like he found this one synth voice he really liked and there's a lot of it throughout, but mostly this is the keyboard heavy counterpart to talk amongst the trees' guitar drone ambience, and i like both a lot.