Great Indietronica album, especially from such a small artist. This needs so many more eyes on it.
I don't think this is investing early necessarily, but I think he's going to erupt in popularity soon
Production remains a high point, in fact the front half of this album probably has some of my favorite production from him, but ultimately the lack of evolution as a lyricist and rapper does kneecap this quite a bit. I also didn’t love how he used a lot of the samples on this. Lights was the most glaring example of this
Raw Industrial/Electronic/Punk energy from front to back, with each track produced and written well and an enticing vocal performance.
Oddly enough, the album can sometimes lack distinctive qualities from track to track - but you won’t hear me complaining; It’s just more of the same great stuff.
The weak moments are really short in comparison to the 1 hour and 40 minute run time. I find the rawness of the production is extremely tasteful. It's definitely not as pristine as some of their later works - but it's still amazing.
I wasn't gonna listen to this, but then I saw it got a Not Good from Fantano while having a not-so-low score on here and figured "Why not, lets check it out. Bad music is funny. Maybe the bald guy got something wrong again."
Yea, this is bad. I don't know if it was a conscious decision for every trumpet to sound like just a straight MuseScore midi instrument - but that's what you get. There's a beat or two here or there that could have become something cool - but ... read more
Yea I mean if you're looking at this as a full album or a greater musical statement it might not be the most cohesive thing - but these tracks individually end up being probably their best chunk of work yet.
Breathtaking and Sexy, not a moment went by on this that I wasn't thoroughly enjoying what I heard.
Spitballed thoughts because I'm supposed to be working
I think this is an excellent framework for their future projects, and the inclusion of some Jockstrap/BCNR people make me excited for the collaborations Cameron has in store for the future (and what that could possibly mean for potential collab albums) - but the singles definitely set my expectations in the stratosphere and they weren't met.
That's probably on me, and obviously I still think this album was great - but I ... read more
The live album of my favorite albums from my favorite band is one of my favorite albums. Who would have thought?
It makes me happy to eat my words sometimes, this is great.
I didn't enjoy the singles very much, and I was honestly not super excited to listen to this album. I was 100% certain this was going to be glazed to hell, end up as another album that I just say "Oh well, guess it's not for me" and move on. Figured wouldn't even want to write a blurb
Looking back, I don't really know what was coming over me. I usually fuck with maximalist production like this super ... read more
This is probably the worst Tom Macdonald album I've listened to. I'd probably give it a 5/100 on my scale, but I couldn't bring myself to bringing the overall score up.
This is amazing, such a seamless blend of these genres and done with an attention to detail that really rewards deep listening.
Super well performed avant/ambient Jazz. While there’s some sections that I think lose some of the creative flare the first leg has, the explorations in texture and timbre more than makes up for it for me.
To just spitball some general thoughts, I think the slap tonguing on the sax is used super super well, the production is super well done. I think harmonically some of the changes get a bit predictable as the album progresses, but as I said above the production more than makes up for ... read more
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