Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
For this new song highlight series (a rebrand of my previous recap series), we run through some of my favourite songs from projects I covered in February 2026.
J. Cole - The Fall Off - Album Review (hip-hop)
Best: ‘The Let Out’, ‘Poor Thang’, ‘WHO TF IZ U’, ‘Drum n Bass’, ‘Lonely At The Top’, ‘Old Dog’ ft. Petey Pablo, ‘I Love Her Again’, ‘and the whole world is the Ville’, ‘Ocean Way’
Worst: ‘39 Intro’, ‘Run A Train’ ft. Future, ‘Man Up Above’, ‘What If’ ft. Morray
Joji – Piss In The Wind – Album Review (R&B / trap / rage)
Best: ‘Last of a Dying Breed’, ‘Piece of You’ ft. Giveon, ‘Silhouette Man’
Worst: ‘Forehead Touch The Ground’, ‘Fade To Black’ ft. 4batz, ‘Love Me Better’, ‘Strange Home’
Mandy, Indiana - URGH - Album Review (industrial / noise rock)
Best: ‘Magazine’, ‘Dodecahedron’, ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’, ‘Sicko!’ ft billy woods, ‘I’ll Ask Her’
Worst: ‘Cursive’
Danny L Harle - Cerulean - Album Review (electronic)
Best: ‘Azimuth’ ft. Caroline Polachek, ‘On & On’ ft. Caroline Polachek, ‘Starlight’ ft. PinkPantheress, ‘Raft In The Sea’ ft. Julia Michaels, ‘Teardrop In The Ocean’
Worst: ‘Two Hearts’ ft. Dua Lipa
Ward Davis - Here I Am - Album Review (country / southern rock)
Best:’Find You In The Crowd’, ‘I Need To Be Still’, ‘To Tear Myself Apart’, ‘Somewhere Lonely’, ‘Stray Dogs and Alley Cats’, ‘Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me Right Now’
Worst: ‘Found’
Spunkshine – Siege Engines, probably – Album Review (electronic / ambient / downtempo)
Best: ‘Classification Failure’, ‘Siege Engines’, ‘Epistemic Exhaustion’, ‘Its Function Remains Assumed Rather Than Confirmed (TAT-1)’, ‘We Let It Run’, ‘The Sound Persists Regardless of Oversight’
Worst: ‘Unexplained Torque’
hemlocke springs - The Apple Tree Under The Sea – Album Review (indie pop)
Best: ‘w-w-w-w-w’, ‘moses’, ‘sever the blight’, ‘sense (is)’, ‘be the girl!’
Worst: ‘set me free’
Hilary Duff - luck.. or something - Album Review (pop)
Best: ‘Roommates’, ‘We Don’t Talk’, ‘Future Tripping’, ‘The Optimist’, ‘Holiday Party’
Worst: ‘Adult Size Medium’
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For this new song highlight series (a rebrand of my previous recap series), we run through some of my favourite songs from projects I covered in February 2026.
J. Cole - The Fall Off - Album Review (hip-hop)
Best: ‘The Let Out’, ‘Poor Thang’, ‘WHO TF IZ U’, ‘Drum n Bass’, ‘Lonely At The Top’, ‘Old Dog’ ft. Petey Pablo, ‘I Love Her Again’, ‘and the whole world is the Ville’, ‘Ocean Way’
Worst: ‘39 Intro’, ‘Run A Train’ ft. Future, ‘Man Up Above’, ‘What If’ ft. Morray
Joji – Piss In The Wind – Album Review (R&B / trap / rage)
Best: ‘Last of a Dying Breed’, ‘Piece of You’ ft. Giveon, ‘Silhouette Man’
Worst: ‘Forehead Touch The Ground’, ‘Fade To Black’ ft. 4batz, ‘Love Me Better’, ‘Strange Home’
Mandy, Indiana - URGH - Album Review (industrial / noise rock)
Best: ‘Magazine’, ‘Dodecahedron’, ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’, ‘Sicko!’ ft billy woods, ‘I’ll Ask Her’
Worst: ‘Cursive’
Danny L Harle - Cerulean - Album Review (electronic)
Best: ‘Azimuth’ ft. Caroline Polachek, ‘On & On’ ft. Caroline Polachek, ‘Starlight’ ft. PinkPantheress, ‘Raft In The Sea’ ft. Julia Michaels, ‘Teardrop In The Ocean’
Worst: ‘Two Hearts’ ft. Dua Lipa
Ward Davis - Here I Am - Album Review (country / southern rock)
Best:’Find You In The Crowd’, ‘I Need To Be Still’, ‘To Tear Myself Apart’, ‘Somewhere Lonely’, ‘Stray Dogs and Alley Cats’, ‘Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me Right Now’
Worst: ‘Found’
Spunkshine – Siege Engines, probably – Album Review (electronic / ambient / downtempo)
Best: ‘Classification Failure’, ‘Siege Engines’, ‘Epistemic Exhaustion’, ‘Its Function Remains Assumed Rather Than Confirmed (TAT-1)’, ‘We Let It Run’, ‘The Sound Persists Regardless of Oversight’
Worst: ‘Unexplained Torque’
hemlocke springs - The Apple Tree Under The Sea – Album Review (indie pop)
Best: ‘w-w-w-w-w’, ‘moses’, ‘sever the blight’, ‘sense (is)’, ‘be the girl!’
Worst: ‘set me free’
Hilary Duff - luck.. or something - Album Review (pop)
Best: ‘Roommates’, ‘We Don’t Talk’, ‘Future Tripping’, ‘The Optimist’, ‘Holiday Party’
Worst: ‘Adult Size Medium’
Join my Patreon experiment: patreon.com/SpectrumPlse
Spectrum Pulse Social Media or to Support This Channel: https://linktr.ee/spectrumpulse
If you want to read the review in text, or check out any additional reviews I've done so far, go to spectrum-pulse.ca for more. Otherwise, be sure to like and subscribe for more!
Thanks for watching Spectrum Pulse!
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Spectrum Pulse is a music review / commentary channel, like colleagues Anthony Fantano of TheNeedleDrop, ARTV, Dead End Hip Hop, Rocked, Deep Cuts, Crash Thompson, Shawn Cee, Mic The Snare, and plenty others, known for discussions of music, movies, art and culture.
Spectrum Pulse, music, review, 2026, album, album review, react, reaction, J. Cole, The Fall Off, Joji, Piss In The Wind, Mandy Indiana, URGH, Danny L Harle, Cerulean, Ward Davis, Here I Am, Spunkshine, Siege Engines probably, hemlocke springs, The Apple Tree Under The Sea, Hilary Duff, luck... or something, J. Cole The Fall-Off, Joji Piss In the Wind, Hilary Duff luck or something, hemlocke springs the apple tree under the sea, Ward Davis Here I Am, Danny L Harle Cerulean
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