Parannoul fuses the sound of his last two mainline LPs into this new, noisy project he suprisedropped last week. I really like this over After the Magic, it's as aggressive and cathartic as TSTNPOTD while still maintaining the optimism and whimsy of After the Magic. To be honest though, it doesnt reach the briliant unique digitized-yet-authentic feeling of TSTNPOTD. As @vermillion said over in the comments, you could assign this album to any shoegaze or midwest emo band from the 00s and it ... read more
maybe im just a shoegaze fanatic but i really dig this variant of rage that's more focused on these towering, slow-burning soundscapes
In an era where Four Tet is settling into strains of ambient downtempo and Quadeca has been fully oneshot into AOTY fan-service, the folktronica GOAT Mid-Air Thief makes his triumphant return with....more electronic noodling
Regrettably, I think Mid-Air Thief has fallen for what I call "Untrue Syndrome," which is when the praise of a magnum opus prevents them from meaningfully following it up. I mean, he did say this album was made quickly after he gave up on a songwriting album. ... read more
i find it funny thinking that if this album was released in 2008 it would prolly be panned as a bunch of stock corporate music
edit: 75 -> 60 wore off on me, they nailed the frutiger aestethic but i think they need to do more interesting songwriting or else the novelty wears off fast




