What a beautiful and gut wrenching experience.

This man yearns like no other human being alive, and as a fellow yearner it hits. On first listen it’s pretty same-y, but I enjoy the whole album and Matt is able to evoke a lot of feelings with his words and simple (but beautiful) instrumentals! If you don’t like slow ballads that make you ache I recommend a different album.

I do enjoy a lot of Saint Motels music, even if it is just better AJR (not saying much). This album is painfully average even by Saint Motel standards. There’s a few songs I like because I have low standards for music to enjoy it, but objectively it’s all very fine?

Has some really solid moments but tbh I was SO BORED and was just waiting for it to end.

Rae and I are seeing Mustard Service live in July so I figured I’d review all of their albums! For being a first album, it’s super good and manages to be pretty memorable for only 28 minutes. The production feels a little messy at times but tbh I feel it’s charming and adds to the overall feel of the album. Definitely not the best in their discography, but still a great listen that I find myself going back to often!

Doing a listen of all of the Album of the Year Grammy winners with my bestie, and this is the first ever one!

This album was up for the award alongside Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Van Cliburn. Considering (spoiler alert) how much Sinatra wins in the 60’s, it is a wonder this album pulled out on top! And crazy that the first ever Grammys had nominated a black woman for this category, and it wouldn’t be for another 30+ years that a black woman would win the award.

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made me ugly cry in the parking lot of a coffee shop