Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Vale-Smith returns with a slightly unwieldy 20-track, 73-minute behemoth that has no outright skips, some of his most impressive sound design yet, and is just a really consistently heartwarming mood-brightener.
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Listen: buffalostaple.bandcamp.com/album/um-yo
More Vale-Smith reviews: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL4HiHABeOQ-Ce7oP3L9mhxw
Favorite Tracks: Dream State Indulgence, Pristine Drifting, Lovestruck, Fantasy Interlude, Neat Tricks All Day, New Universes, The Real Bright Blue, Soul Absence, Waiting, Precipice, Sure, Don’t Get Hurt, Itinerant But Still Nothing, Sister What
Least Favorite Track: Fantasy
Overall Rating: 8.5/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this video's upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.
Vale-Smith returns with a slightly unwieldy 20-track, 73-minute behemoth that has no outright skips, some of his most impressive sound design yet, and is just a really consistently heartwarming mood-brightener.
Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/TheWonkyAngle
Listen: buffalostaple.bandcamp.com/album/um-yo
More Vale-Smith reviews: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL4HiHABeOQ-Ce7oP3L9mhxw
Favorite Tracks: Dream State Indulgence, Pristine Drifting, Lovestruck, Fantasy Interlude, Neat Tricks All Day, New Universes, The Real Bright Blue, Soul Absence, Waiting, Precipice, Sure, Don’t Get Hurt, Itinerant But Still Nothing, Sister What
Least Favorite Track: Fantasy
Overall Rating: 8.5/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this video's upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.
![Alan Walker - Different World (Album Review) [Patreon Request]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nhRfOtwIoqY/mqdefault.jpg "Alan Walker - Different World (Album Review) [Patreon Request]
Alan Walker made one of the most popular and successful EDM tracks of all time Faded in 2015 when he was only 18, though he has since remained something of a one-hit wonder (at least in the US). He also put out this debut album in 2018 which is one of the blandest albums Ive ever heard.
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Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/3nzuGtN3nXARvvecier4K0
More Patreon-requested reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL5ueXeqSgMqMaLTL8zC2BAz
Favorite Tracks: Lonely, Diamond Heart, Faded
Least Favorite Track: Lily
Overall Rating: 3.5/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this videos upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.")
![The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Album Review) [feat. Spectrum Pulse]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nqL6cAPbSDQ/mqdefault.jpg "The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Album Review) [feat. Spectrum Pulse]
The brothers are back! And since thats always a special occasion, I decided to bring on Mark from Spectrum Pulse to talk with me about them again. (...Just a shame neither of us really cared for the album much.)
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Marks channel (sub to him if you somehow havent already): https://www.youtube.com/@SpectrumPulse
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/5cLkbqs0qo552lJvXH1JTH
More Chemical Brothers reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL7z3fVWGAZv67uIfD2Sr6WZ
TWA:
Favorite Tracks: Live Again, Goodbye, The Darkness That You Fear
Least Favorite Track: For That Beautiful Feeling (though Feels Like I Am Dreaming, Magic Wand and No Reason are close, and if you count the intro throw that in there too)
Overall Rating: 5.0/10
Spectrum Pulse:
Favorite Tracks: The Weight, Skipping Like A Stone, The Darkness That You Fear
Least Favorite Tracks: Fountains, For That Beautiful Feeling
Overall Rating: 6.0/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this videos upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.")
