houston stays on toppppppp fuck yeah
nothing better released this decade! absolutely nothing! i could be annoying and pretentious about this but there's no point! fuckkkkk yes dude
lowkey i like a lot of the experimentation. tommy wright iii samples are great. im not a fan and i didnt experience the 8 year wait so maybe that informs my subtle enjoyment.
Its pretty fiiiine, but most experimental things turn into blues in a way thats just okay
Probably the perfect January listen. Slowcore absolutely destroys me. I adore this album.
she’s got some incredible production skill. i’m more of a fan of the edge in the lyrics this time around, not sure why. #love trans women
It seems that loveless is the closest album to achieving monolithic status in recorded popular music. It is an undeniably important album for the sonic vocabulary so many musicians draw from. It is no doubt one of the most influential albums to come out of the back half of the 20th century.
That being said, I think us music-thinkers tend to overrate loveless; drawn into a lull by its sheer density. There is plenty to criticize here.
"loomer" and "touched" are ... read more
Pirouette devolves from Dance-Punk into Industrial / Experimental Rock along its runtime in tandem with the speaker spiraling further and further into a hole of queer self-loathing. It's a gorgeous album that has a great deal to say about religion, sexuality, desire, and just how strange it can be to be loved.
Parts of Pirouette bounced off of me for various reasons (strange phrasing in lyrics, a messy production choice) but it is, all in all, an extremely rewarding listen for those who ... read more
loopcinema gets so much better every release. My-Lovely-Yellow-Kombi is an hour-long EP that is so effortlessly vibrant; full of life and fuzzy gnostic psychedelia. so excited for this year in electronic music, because if THIS is a JANUARY release? hell yes.
These do feel like cutting room floor type tracks, but they are not bad by any means. just a little inconsistent and a little messy. Turbines/Pigs is really That Good though
undeniably one of the best jazz records of all time, but cool modal jazz falls to the wayside to me in a lot of ways. It's an essential but not a favorite.
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