I got a little burntout on post-punk but this motherfucker right here got me back up on tha horse, chasing the deer through the living room lad. This record is even better than a hero's death, cunt.
So this is where Pharrell was while Nigo was missing each layup. I enjoy the Jay line regarding Biggie because since this record started, the melody of each verse is so reminiscent of Biggie's rhyme schemes, blown away by it. The production of this record is the best I've heard in recent memory, willing to admit my memory is useless thing but, this is the type of hooks sewn into the production I was expecting from Nigo's record, oh well, I finally see the hype of Push outside of Clipse. (did ... read more
Overblown and overexposed, perhaps as a mixtape this record could have been better understood but as an LP in the linage of one of if not thee most important artists of the time this is terrible. Even more so when the livestream is the only way for most people to get a hold of this record (god bless youtube). This has pieces of a great record but as a completed package this thing is ruined. The creative process can be messy and this is one of the best examples of this.
The opener is a strange ... read more
A patchwork of features makes this a strange record in all the right places.
A simple formula used to create unsurprising effects, luckily said effect is pleasant ^^ Charli sure knows how to deliver a hook.
Vocals that shift in the way John Bence's "Disquiet" or David Lang's "Death Speaks" would but committed to long-form (for some reason that's how it is presented on AppleMusic) makes for a spiralling sometimes ambivalent body of sound. Unsurprisingly this body of work is meant to be complemented by an arrangement of dancers, vocalists and visuals. I really love the elements played with here ambience and classical continue to re-emerge in one another bodies. Still, this isn't ... read more
Feels more like an EP than an album to me, don't know why, perhaps there is more worldbuilding than actual music in the album? I don't know but I swear the concept behind this album is more interesting than the album itself. Also, the lyrical referential magic trick used on "Escape from LA" is used to death here, chill on the self-referencing, it's grating no?
"Take My Breath" does well when enclosed by the rest of the album. What seemed like a very average dance single in ... read more
A gorgeous little debut album filled with all the right pockets of sound and a stunning piece of art all around indebted to the living traditions of R&B and Soul. The opener Big Mike's feels like the next chapter in Bukowski's "Let It Enfold You" poem, similar in its structure carrying its epiphany into euphoria. Again that euphoria, that melody carried in R&B, D'Angelo, Yves Tumor, Blood Orange, Jai Paul, Miguel, Snoh Aalegra, Autre Ne Veut, Jazmine Sullivan, Ari Lennnox, ... read more
Somehow, still the most forward-thinking/sounding record I've heard in 2021. <3
ALSO, just remembered they completely left out Kinetic, Orgy, Worrywort etc. from the Amnesiac Collectors edition, hmm </3
Not a fan of this version of "Skirting on the Surface" :/ "Just Eyes and Mouth" though :)
"Too Serious" is missing, otherwise actually glad this exists, since the self-titled album really needed a rework. With these EPs joining, the "record" seems a lot more fleshed out. It has also replaced the original self-titled record on streaming services so this is canon now ^^.
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