This is the best video game soundtrack I've ever heard. Everything about Side Order is Octo Expansion, 10% better. Free Association and the return of Dedf1sh from Octo Expansion just deliver the best thing 2024 could've asked for. Hyped this one up for a while, and didn't let down at all.

This was my #1 the best Video Game OST of the decade, until Side Order beat their own high score. Just hearing this in the background of Octo Expansion, while you recover the memcakes (memories in physical form), makes the whole thing worth it, not to mention the actual gameplay is nice, but the star of the show is truly Dedf1sh going to town on this OST. The splatoon aesthetic in general is ridiculously nice, like creating the 3rd member of the band in splatoon 3 after polkadot stingray ... read more

hell of a way to spend 5 years

funny how the best electronic album of the decade has no critic reviews

They finally decided to reinvent the meta rather than perfecting the correct psychedelia of the year... Parenthood inspires them to take seemingly one trip through their dark cold salvia-infested woods, but this time submerged in a 10 feet deep ocean. If Merriweather is the Kind of Blue of Neo-Psychedelica, this is its Bitches Brew.

Be patient with this one, and watch it bloom.

Written in December 2017 for CalArts:

Charles Mingus was an all time great jazz performer and composer. He was born in Arizona in 1922, and faced lifelong struggles with racial discrimination, which he discussed through his music. His status as a bandleader and jazz composer began to rise in 1956 with the release of his first landmark work, Pithecanthropus Erectus. He followed this work with some other great albums, but these are shadowed by his greatest work. In 1963, his magnum opus, The ... read more

I wrote a paper on this song, and its role in experimental pop at the turn of the millennium.

Experimental Pop at the Turn of the Millennium -
Analysis of Danse Manatee and Where it Fits in the Landscape of Pop

Often described by critics as the “blunder” or “excess” in their discography, Animal Collective’s Danse Manatee remains a personal favorite of the musicians who created it. Inspired by the lowest and highest sounds on the frequency picked up by human ... read more

uh i accidentally put this under LP instead of EP.. could one of the mods possibly fix that