AOTY (so far - come on War On Drugs, you can beat this!)
A couple of tracks I definitely think could have been left out (cough - tracks 9 and 11 - cough), but the high points are so high and the album as a whole is beautiful, so I'm willing to overlook them.
1. Latter Days (feat. Anaïs Mitchell) - 8
2. Reese - 9
3. Phoenix (feat. Fleet Foxes, Anaïs Mitchell) - 11teenhundred
4. Birch (feat. Taylor Swift) - 8
5. Renegade (feat. Taylor Swift) - 9
6. The Ghost of Cincinnati - 8
7. ... read more
I've never really been able to get into Wolf Alice before, so this was a really nice surprise.
At one point my ears perked up and I thought "oh, this one's actually good" and then I realised the boring black midi album that almost put me to sleep had finished and spotify had begun playing four tet.
Progression, maturity, evolution and all that is great, but not so much when you just really REALLY want to hear another album like Plowing Into the Field of Love.
You know how Reddit hides upvotes and downvotes for a while because people are naturally programmed to go with the crowd, voting the same way as they see others doing? I feel like AOTY should do the same thing. Cos the same phenomenon definitely occurs on this website.
"We didn't appear out of thin air, mate
We fucking live here, you cunt"
Poetry
I thought it might be like those tracks he occasionally does with Diplo or Chance the Rapper or whoever, but no, it was just cheesy pop crooning.
I like the music and I like the whole vibe, but I'd prefer to hear singing than spoken word.
Such a random album for AOTY to fawn over. Does this guy have some obscure link to King Crule, Phil Elverum or Run The Jewels that I don't know about? Or is it just because he went to Goldsmiths?
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