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A broken transmission album that isn't complete mid like Between Two Worlds.
This is how you actually create interesting soundscapes with short audio samples.
The fact that you managed to stoop lower than the 3rd installment is beyond me. The sound selection, the vocals, the structuring, and pretty much everything else this album has to offer is SO TACKY AND ANNOYING, I want to erase Jacob Collier's entire existence from my memory. The best way I can describe this record is: weirdo music, but the artist doesn't want to commit towards the weirdo aesthetic fully and instead tries to fill incredibly hollow, radio friendly, supplementary trash with those ... read more
Hot, maybe ignorant take:
I find this album to be, amongst the classics, some of the most wallpaper and inoffensive indie rock there is. There isn't really anything worthwhile on the lyric side for me, the instrumentals are stiff and the record just can't commit to a particular vibe and energy, and because of that, stays in this middle of the road spirit. It's really off-putting imo. Julian Casablancas has a nice voice. That's about it. Much prefer their Voidz output and The New Abnormal to ... read more
For a guy that's being hailed the best thing in modern music by every major figure in the industry, his material sure is vile.
Count the People is one of the worst songs to ever grace the earth, holy shit.
The crown jewel of the EAI scene.
Still brilliant after so many listens.
Good comeback album from Terminator of Crowds Scott. He went for a more rhythmic, unrestrained approach with a good chunk of the production here, instead of the the classic trap style we've come to expect from his releases. Of course, there are R&B breathers and typical trap beats, but the album likes to experiment way more than Astroworld, which is favorable. My problem is the inconsistent tracklist. Songs like God's Country, I Know ?, Parasail and K-Pop are absolutely forgettable for me ... read more
I wanted to like this thing more, but I just can't.
Between Two Worlds is just a run-of-the-mill vaporwave album with not as good of a flow as some other classics in the genre. The sample play just isn't as gripping as on the best T E L E P A T H テレパシー能力者 and Desert Sand Feels Warm At Night releases, in my opinion. The atmosphere and mood setting are quite good for a broken transmission record, though. Can't complain. I would probably like it way more without a ... read more
pff
imagine giving this anything other than a 90+
AOTY needs to get on this.
You thought Showa was bad? You thought Pleasure Escape was bad? You thought Buyer's Market was bad? You thought Children's Pornography Review Vol. 1 was bad? Try listening to this LMAO. This is quite possibly the most vile "piece of music" ever and I will give a quick rundown of what it is about: the "album" is a tape recording of what happened on the day of the infamous Jonestown Massacre. It starts with two Jim Jones speeches stitched ... read more
People who complain about Filosofem's mixing should listen to this.
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This is a conceptual masterpiece and the biggest pile of dogshit to ever grace the earth. The final boss of the punk scene, the crown jewel of music's dadaism movement, originally, the legendary rare Ramones bootleg. What I would give to come across this monstrosity in a record store and pick it up with no prior knowledge of its existence. Hirohito's vampire ass face being plastered on the cover just after he died is the ultimate cherry on top.
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On Edward Skeletrix - Museum Music
"Other great examples of reviews could, for example, be the instances of weaving art criticism into one's own philosophical project. In Deleuze and Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus" there is a fascinating section on the 1971 movie "Willard", where there is an interweaving of the authors' transformations of "becoming" into the film's description, serving as a fundamental contextual lens for understanding the notions. It's more enticing for me to go and watch the film than many of the "conventional" approaches people take to evaluate an art object.
I will also provide a link to my favorite review on RYM — Shmin's piece on John Cage's Indeterminacy: https://paddyagius.neocities.org/writingpieces/indeterminacy1"
On Edward Skeletrix - Museum Music
"Audio installation manifestation of object-oriented writing in his "16 Sculptures": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BG3kIql6KY&t=470s"
On Edward Skeletrix - Museum Music
"Another example of a RYM user, this time, who employs such style is Octa Möbius Sheffner, aka crystallization (I have some grounds to believe the hypothesis that they're inspired by Jeppesen directly).
Here's Jeppesen's overview of this approach: https://disorientations.com/2011/10/13/towards-an-object-oriented-writing-%e2%80%93-or-%e2%80%93-how-anti-formalism-helps-me-dream-notes-on-an-idea-plus-an-announcement/
A free repository of his object-oriented writing (some of it is present in his books which are unaccessible otherwise, e.g. in "Bad Writing"): https://disorientations.com/category/object-oriented-writing/
An amazing review of his on Holly Herndon's 2011 album Car: https://disorientations.com/2015/11/23/carholly-herndon/"
On Edward Skeletrix - Museum Music
"@Bitterman Probably, my favorite art critic whose developed framework for writing possesses the drive for reflection of an art object's form/essence would be Travis Jeppesen with his project of object-oriented writing. He is the example of what I describe with how one can play with the form of a review — how language can encroach on the art object to inhabit it (though not fully and this failure is a conscious effect). He's the contemporary continuation of Susan Sontag's notion of the "erotics of art". There are plenty of people on AOTY and RYM that embody this methodology, for example @srlmecho [though to a lesser extent (you know I love ya)]."
On geraldcap's review of Vince Staples - Cry Baby
"stop ragging on this review, idiots; it requires a lot of media literacy to actually grasp what this person is communicating. here, have some gold ⭐"
On commercequay23's review of Before God - A "Flood" Before God.
"@Bitterman There are huge philosophical movements like posthumanism and speculative realism which challenge these notions of fixed human identity. This extends to reimagining the priorities in art evaluation as well, read up on how thinkers try to overcome correlationism."
On commercequay23's review of Before God - A "Flood" Before God.
"@maskimus Maybe in the future. Reading it back there are also sections I cringe looking back at, like there's a pointless tangent on the political economy, for example. The latter half also needs revising, but I could take an excerpt of like two chapters and DM it to you on RYM."
On commercequay23's review of Before God - A "Flood" Before God.
"Too many people place the subject (the artist) as the ultimate source from which significance is derived. I was going to post a lengthier review detailing this phenomenon you're talking about under this record, but it's too niche."
On Quadeca - Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
"@Bot10Exists Thanks. I dislike this review nowadays, maybe it'll be replaced by a 5k+ word text on AI generation in art when popular enough discourse emerges, like with the Velvet Sundown shit. That "Flood" Before God album is too niche to warrant posting."
On Joseph Hammer - I Love You Please Love Me Too
"@Inorma I mean, the shitty officiating goes both ways, also favoring the Spurs in other games, e.g. the inconsistency between Castle's handchecks on SGA being ignored in some and then heavily punished in the next, with added phantom calls on top of that. It's boring and doesn't present an actual direction for a series."
On Joseph Hammer - I Love You Please Love Me Too
"@Lied I would still be inclined to believe that game 7 is favoring OKC even with injuries. The officiating asymmetry between games is by design and it's just a shitty dragged out audience retention scheme."
On Joseph Hammer - I Love You Please Love Me Too
"@Lied Just wanted to make sure that you didn't interpret that as "Castle couldn't score 20", I was talking about SGA. I agree with your assessment, and we don't even need to see his playoff performances to know that, as he's already plenty proven that in the regular season."
On Joseph Hammer - I Love You Please Love Me Too
"@Lied Couldn't even score 20... though I'm more surprised with how mobile Fox has been -- reading the report it seemed to me that they wouldn't let him play, but it looks like the good scenario for the Spurs."
On The_block's review of נועם בתן [Noam Bettan] - Michelle
"It's no different to the Tom MacDonald hate on this site, a self-fulfilling engine fueling these people's notoriety."
On The_block's review of נועם בתן [Noam Bettan] - Michelle
"Yes. You can discuss Israel's place in Eurovision and the intrinsic double standards in their involvement with other organized events while Russia is effectively locked out (not to mention the fraud and their obvious geographic misalignment because the ME is too antagonistic for them, I wonder why), but having your sole purpose just be rating this negatively to voice your dissatisfaction is not only worthless, but clutters the section for reviews that could actually feature a comprehensive analysis for why heavy opposition is there in the first place. Why do people not mention the rejected petitions, the BBC ruling, the open letter counterinitiative by 1000+ entertainment industry figures to keep Israel on board, etc. ?"
On Joseph Hammer - I Love You Please Love Me Too
"@Inorma Likewise."
On Joseph Hammer - I Love You Please Love Me Too
"@Inorma Maybe it's going to get better for Castle, hopefully. I would just be wary of Harper's willingness to come back on the court, as we don't have the context to know if he was going to play through the pain and discomfort, potentially jeopardizing his future games, or if he was actually fine. Right now it's hearsay, but seeing how he moves on the court will resolve this uncertainty."
On me&me - Playdough Cooked in Tea
"@Bot10Exists Perchance, but they were also hostile and contributed to the environment so I wouldn't cut them as much slack."
On Joseph Hammer - I Love You Please Love Me Too
"@Inorma As for Spurs in 5... I would hope so! I'm scared about Fox's and Harper's injuries though — what Fox is dealing with sounds pretty definitively like he's out for the series, and I wouldn't be so sure about Harper's capabilities at this current moment. With all the shenanigans, it more so looks to me like the NBA execs would really love to draw this series out to 7 and milk it for as long as possible."
On Joseph Hammer - I Love You Please Love Me Too
"@Inorma Appreciate it... unfortunately, over the last year or two I've had terrible periods of overt self-criticism that made me not want to post anything, and when I would eventually do so, it immediately became a scourge to me. The latter half of this review was taken from my short personal essay on thought formulation and sign systems which is probably never going to see the light of day, but it's fun to gather your thoughts to know your values and I would heavily recommend you to engage in similar pondering — it's pretty productive for actual navigation in the real world."
On Joseph Hammer - I Love You Please Love Me Too
"@Inorma thanks!"
On hazyvizions's review of JPEGMAFIA - EXPERIMENTAL RAP
"@Syrenity It's not even depoliticization, he's essentially flipping the script on what he's supposed to stand for. You wouldn't (analogy is not a 1 to 1 stand in, I'm not gonna moralize to this insufferable extent) look at someone like they have it figured out if they proclaim they're a man of God, then proceed to profess their love for Baal later down the line and pretend like these things are not mutually exclusive."
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