The WinBack Review You Never Knew You Wanted

I just wrote the awesomest awesome review of the underrated Nintendo 64 classic WinBack. It’s one of the most stream-of-consciousness reviews I’ve written for a video game, it talks a lot about Little Debbie Snack Cakes, and I like it. Here it is!

Rosetta — The Anaesthete

6/10 Rosetta’s The Anaesthete sounds like their previous album, the great The Determinism of Morality, if someone poisoned that album to death. All the shimmery guitar to violent, buzzing guitar dynamics are there, but instead of feeling triumphant or striving in the face of the immensity of the universe, there’s a sense of darkness and

The Nicsperiment’s Musical Hot Takes — Episode I: "’Re-Arranged’ by Limp Bizkit is a legitimately great song"

Now that I am nearly 3/4 of the way through reviewing my entire music collection, I find myself wanting to comment on bands whose albums I don’t own. And since I don’t own their albums, those comments are not springing from a place of great depth, or well-informed. They are “hot takes.” Here is hot

Rosetta — A Determinism of Morality

9/10 I reviewed Rosetta’s A Determinism of Morality for this very blog six years ago. I’m not entirely happy with the writing in that review, so I’m glad it’s popped up again for this series. Then again, I’m giving the album the same score, and still feeling the same difficulties in describing it.Rosetta, upon their

The Roots of Orchis — Some Things Plural

8/10 Ever work all night, then drive home through a wintry dawn, enveloped in the sleeping world around you? I have, and it sounds like Some Things Plural by instrumental band, The Roots of Orchis. I think I initially found The Roots of Orchis by searching the term “bands with two bassists” on webcrawler. Webcrawler

Rocky IV (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) — Various Artists

8/10 Rocky IV is the greatest long-form music video ever created…its merits as a film are debatable. Watching Rocky unite the United States and Communist Russia together by avenging the death of his mentor to hot 80’s synth rock is sublime if you take it for what it is and don’t expect Citizen Kane. Does

Seriously, How Could You Not Like a Movie Where This Happens?

Sucking in the Masses: The Nicsperiment Has Reviewed a Homebrew Sega Dreamcast Game

I really have my finger on the pulse of the masses. I know how fast it’s beating, but even better, I know what its owner, that being the masses, wants. It wants to read a text-based review of an independently made Dreamcast game from 2013.Well, ask, and you shall receive!https://dreamcastreviews.blogspot.com/2018/01/sturmwind.html orhttps://classicvideogamereviews.blogspot.com/2018/01/sturmwind.html It’s going to be

One Last Note on 2017

Before I start posting new content, and it falls off the bottom of the page, I’d like to draw attention to the travelogue I published last December. I took a trip to a fairly desolate place while in a fairly desolate state of mind, and wrote by far the strangest travelogue this blog has featured.

Comes Around

Welcome to the sweet nu metal sounds of 2002!