ChrisLaw

I feel like I'll always love Willoughby Tucker at this rate. Pitchfork talks about Cain's albums as though the heavy emphasis on ambience, aesthetics and emotional structure (or structurelessness) is some kind of disadvantage. Some times I think they're just intentionally ragebaiting. Even though the super-narrative across the releases is ostensibly entirely fictional (and richly emblazoned with context as such), and even if it were all "true" I should, as some gay ... read more

It sucks, guys. And that's ok. Plenty of great music came out this year not by the Swift machine...

Firstly an 89 in my book is like a 94+ elsewhere because I stretch out 90-100 to give me more room at the top (I certainly don't need it at the bottom)
My full review will be on the remix album which I view as the full project (as I believe we're supposed to, as it includes these tracks as disc 1). Something special happened here. Charli went and staggered-release effectively a double album that deserves to stand with truly great double discs (Sign 'O' the Times comes to ... read more

I'm not sure I can say anything about this album that hasn't already been said many times. What I can say is that this album/project has done what all truly great music (any medium but music is my main jam) can do: sing its 'song' so clearly that my ears resonate, my heart vibrates, my soul recognizes, and my mind actually stops. I both recognize so much of myself in Charli at the same time when I recognize that she is so unique that only a very few people will have a great ... read more