ayannasarah

Familiarity: All too familiar
Would I re-listen?: Literally no

Listening to this album as an adult makes me want to go back in time and re-parent my 12-year-old-self. LITERALLY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING PUTTING THIS GARBAGE INTO YOUR EARS? Someone should have been monitoring my iPod more closely. Jesus Christ. In order to go about re-listening to this, I put my Spotify on private listening mode bc literally nobody needs to know about this.

I remember my cool older cousin asked what ... read more

I didn't really know who Grace Ives was before this record, but ohhh my god. I love the feeling of finding music that literally feels like it was made specifically for you.

This record is so refreshing. The production is so unique, I love the way she plays with sound in her songs. It's weird and bizarre at times, but it WORKS SO WELL. There are some tracks where she reminds me of old Lana (like My Mans), and many tracks where she reminds me of Sky Ferreira in the best ways possible. ... read more

ROLLING STONE #481
Familiarity: Heard of it, never listened
Would I re-listen?: Yes

I was a little nervous when I started listening to this one because I didn't LOVE the first few tracks. This record was very twee, but not in a terribly irritating way. This was twee before twee was mainstream. Anyways, there were definitely some tracks on here I really enjoyed and others that I felt will grow on me as I re-listen to this one. Overall, all of them were solid and this felt really ... read more

I listened to this today just because I wanted to be a hater. And if that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

When I was in 2nd grade and my friends and I wanted to start a band despite not having instruments or musical talent of any sort, we named our band "DLA." This was just the first letter from each of our names smushed together. This is also how AJR got their name, and I resent them for it because this is a lazy ass idea. With that I must speak on ABBA, who did the ... read more