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Peripheral Vision is easily one of the most “out-of-nowhere” records that I’ve ever experienced. It sort of struck me blindly as a first listen. The only reason I even found it at any point was because someone posted the album cover on twitter, and I liked it a lot. As a cover, it gave off very ethereal and ... read more
The amount of influence you had over my identity, and the ability to be proud of myself as a trans person today is impossible to describe.
I feel so goddamn sick.
SOPHIE, forever.
Originally, I took Brakence and their very lush, booming emo trap production & angsty melodies to be an extrapolation of what I heard years ago in the midst of my EDEN phase, but its definitely a lot more than that. Brakence offers up a lot more variety in terms of vocals and instrumental variety. The twist he provides on emo trap / pop punk qualities is an overlap I can see him and ... read more
I had this recommended to me after getting into Brakence' work and its easily the most infectious and zany work I've heard this year. Just off of tracks like MIDWESTEMO2 & DOGFIGHT I think FROMTHEHEART is stumbling on an extra exciting pocket of sound in the bubblegum bass style and the amount of times I've already replayed each song in the matter of a few days is ridiculous.
Plus, the project stands under 20 minutes and has a few ... read more
IDLES, once again, manage to pull out all the stops to make an entire barn-burner of an album. Joe Talbot and co. sound as angry and loud as ever, and as always, they've got some things to say along with it.
Immediately from the singles and the album title, there was a definite theme going into this album. Grounds was this incredible, hulking single with Joe, a LITTLE more angry than usual, screaming some pretty plain one-liners:
"I AM ... read more