Really, honestly, truly, where do you even start talking about an album like Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven? It is an album that speaks for itself completely. Very few words are actually spoken on this, and the ones that are (besides the beginning of the final track) aren’t even sung, they’re spoken, whether by an old man talking about when he was a youngster in Coney Island or a machine in a mini market. Despite the lack of words, this album says a whole lot. It ... read more
Yeezus is one of Kanye West’s most beloved and acclaimed, but also controversial albums. The sound is more abrasive than what the average listener is used to, especially the intro song, On Sight, which is definitely a highlight here. This album is extremely hit or miss. On Sight, Black Skinhead, New Slaves, Hold My Liquor, Guilt Trip, and Bound 2 are all absolutely fantastic and rank among some of Kanye’s best tracks, but then songs like Send It Up and I Am A God exist and drag what ... read more
Bird Seed is often considered an introduction to Power Electronics because it honestly encapsulates everything the genre stands for. It is loud, offensive, shocking, and extremely abrasive. The intro track, Why You Never Became a Dancer is especially infamous for its background and context. Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel is also an iconic song, being extremely loud and abrasive but honestly also pretty fun somehow. Philosophy feels a lot less jumpy than the last two songs and more of a slow burning ... read more
How I Loved You is a wonderful Gothic Country album by Angels of Light, an offshoot of one of the most famous Post-Rock bands of all time, Swans. This album features Michael Gira doing more of a country-esque sound and is very sad.
As much as I like some of his other works, Everywhere An Empty Bliss is such a directionless, and quite frankly, pointless album. For being the final work of one of the most prolific ambient artists of all time, it is a real snoozefest. None of the songs really go anywhere, most of them are too minimal for words, and about half of them barely even qualify as songs. I don’t have a problem with a lack of structure when it actually makes for an interesting and encapsulating atmosphere, but ... read more
Deathconsciousness is one of those albums that while it exists within genres where thousands of other albums exist, no album comes even close to it. Sure, there are a million post-punk and shoegaze albums, but this one is irreplicable. There’s a million sad albums but none of them are this one. This is neither the saddest or most intense album I have ever heard, but nonetheless it exists on a plane in both of those fields that no other albums exist on. It opens with A Quick One Before the ... read more