Album Artist: Ada Rook
Album Name: c𝖀m songs
Release Date: June 1, 2026
Genre: Digital Hardcore, Cum Metal
Where To Listen: Bandcamp, Hear a few tracks early on her Patreon
I'm going to cover this one song at a time because these is no way I can describe this album as a whole. I'm also trying to be a bit vague on details outside of the main sound of the album because I don't want to spoil any of the more major details.
The album opens with neverwas, a dark, pop-esque, industrial song that beautifully brings you into the world of this album in an almost serene or ethereal way, but that calmness slowly begins to break apart as the intensity builds. As neverwas ends, and Risk Repeater begins, the listener is thrown into an aggressive cascade of noise. Risk Repeater is a brutal high bpm track that completely dismantles any comfort that may have remained within the listener with an intensity consumes everything around it. The song Unreal Tournament not only continues that intensity, but even steps it up a bit, becoming almost overwhelming (in a good way) but also features a very catchy chorus that gives the listener room to breathe without breaking the tension of the song too much, it is all so beautifully aggressive, and leaves you nervous but ready for whatever comes next. i am not alive comes in with an intense sound matching that of the previous song, but quickly warps into something more poppy in nature, though it still has a bit of that digital hardcore sound, and with a chorus even more catchy than the last, but it eventually returns to the more ethereal sound heard in the beginning of the album. In the following song, untitled song abt something that happened like a decade ago u dont know anything and u never will, that sound is continued, although in a more eerie and intense way, this song leaves you with a somber feeling of discomfort that I can't quite describe. But that feeling does not remain, it is quickly snuffed out by load boost is killing my sex drive, which continues the intensity that had previously been lost, and with one of my favorite choruses on the album, it is absolutely brutal, and beautiful, and intense in a way that cannot be put into words, and the song ends with a breakdown more intense than anything else before it, it is akin to something of the cybergrind genre. It is followed by damage makes me special freestyle, a short song that, while the vocals are intense, has a deep, gloomy, almost ambient instrumental with a collage of electrical noises that effectively sets the vibe for the track. It's followed by whatever grace, a high paced industrial pop track that slowly crushes you inside, while still maintaining a similar sound to the previous track, leaving you with a melancholy feeling that you can't quite break away from. And that dark, dreary vibe of the previous two songs is continued in vagrant story, by this point the album has left the listener in what feels like an empty sea of sadness, a hollow feeling that encompasses everything around you, and suddenly intensity begins to build throughout the second half of the song, until it all comes to an end. But that intensity is not lost, i cum acrylamide comes in with a level of aggressing that resembles the way Risk Repeater comes in at the beginning of the album, hitting the listener with the force of a bomb, and that aggression tears through the you in a way that consumes all other emotion that you may have felt, leaving you with an aggression like what is portrayed in the song, and as soon as the song gives you the space to breath and you think that that aggression is finally over, it comes back for one final blow before leaving you with a short period of discomforting ambience. The aggression of the previous track is quickly resumed in shadow zone kids, while it's not nearly as intense, this song still holds up very well and with another beautiful chorus that perfectly juxtaposes the rest of the song without feeling too out of place. The next song, tired sicko, is a song that is in some ways very similar to damage makes me special, in that it has a very airy, ambient sounding instrumental, although this time with vocals that match the somber sound of the instrumental, it is such a dark beautiful track that completely envelopes the listener in it's sadness, and leaves you completely unprepared for what's to cum. realness smoothly transitions the sound from calm and airy to something more aggressive, with a dizzying, almost overwhelming sound (still in a good way but different from Unreal Tournament), and goodness continues that sound, and continues to progressively make it more and more intense, like it's all one big build up for the ultimate climax of the album. And with night mover, that climax finally begins. this song is an absolute monster that constantly bounces back and forth between the calm and intense sounds heard previously throughout the album, although this time with minimal build ups to leave the listener completely off guard throughout the entirety of the track. It's complete, spiraling, madness that leaves you truly overwhelmed, with every wave more intense than the last, and yet still building to the ultimate moment of the song when it all comes down in one final burst of aggression, all leading up to this one point, that all fades out in a blissful sea of ambience like floating lost in space, drifting into nothing. And finally, 125, the final song of the album, a sad, short, piece, backed by the beautiful piano playing of Lauren Bousfield, a final sorrowful moment before the album comes to the end, just as slowly as it began.
This album really is amazing, in my opinion it might be Ada's best album so far, and I really don't think I can do it justice. Given the album cover, the names of some of the songs, and a title like c𝖀m songs, I really thought that this would be a much more silly or atleast less intense (I've used that word quite a lot in this review havent I) than it actually was. I really was not prepaired at all for what I was getting myself into when I started listening to it, and I highly suggest listening to it when it comes out on June 1st of this year, mark your damn calenders!