Blutthoe

What an emotionally sad album. For the most part not the Lips' best songs (although I like "Mother I've Taken LSD"), the tunes don't really stick with me so much as the devastating loneliness and dejection of the thing. That's perhaps a success in itself, but this is nothing I can listen to often.

Relentlessly interesting and experimental. It's a pleasant listen at almost every point. Don't worry about consuming it all at once. Honestly just fun quirky music with amazing imagination and boldness.

FINALLY, a new Autechre record that isn't completely impenetrable. AE's past couple have been so difficult and disinterested with the listener's enjoyment that I thought these guys were just going to disappear into the void. The decision to use chords and melody on this one was a huge step in the right direction, because these songs have shape and color in a way that their lengthy sonic wastelands of recent years just have not. The opener is in my top 5 Autechre songs ever.

I'm a King Gizzard fan and this just feels like their most uninspired album in a minute. With only a couple of exceptions, you can get better versions of every one of these songs on earlier records. I'm hoping the boys haven't peaked.