I absolutely respect a lot of what CSS is doing here. The punk attitude and to an extent the sound, are endearingly engaging enough. I ultimately feel though that the rough around the edges approach kind of leaves something to be desired, and the lyrics can be VERY awkwardly stilting

For some reason, I was under the impression LCD Soundsystem was going to be some sort of ambient electronic album. In reality, it's a weird sort of dancey counter-culture parody of 2000's music culture. The unique sound really drives the bulk of the project, but I felt like most of songs suffered from the long length. Most of the time, the tracks tend to feel a little aimless, dragging on beyond what they needed to be

Pretty nice finale piece from the Scrapyard trilogy. Interested to see what Count Qaunkulus comes out with next

Moving on to other Peggy projects does tend to make me forget how fun and Creative 'All My Heroes Are Cornballs' is

Quintessential 2000's pop bangers without an ounce of filler on the whole record

The most Indie Rockest Indie Rock

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Edit: just took another couple listens but I've definitely come to appreciate how insanely consistent this album is. The songs that were more forgettable to me still hit so hard

Something prevents me from absolutely adoring this album like so many people do. I think it's really great, in just about every way. Individually, each song is a psychedelic trip. When listening to the album front to back, something just doesn't click in my brain the way I know it should

pleasing :)

Compared to the first Scrapyard, not only are the instrumentals experimental in a newly enjoyable way, but the vocals are also much more manageably natural

Quadeca continues the momentum from 'I Didn't Mean to Haunt you.' I think the breakcore influences in the production create a cool vibe, but the vocal filter used sort of detracted from my overall enjoyment

The odd lo-fi jazz sound works here, slightly more than his previous album. I do actually kind of enjoy his unique voice on the instrumentals

A lot of people see Congratulations as the sort of awkward middle-child between Oracular Spectacular and Little Dark Age, which I think does it a massive disservice. It's such a colourfully special blend of off-the-wall ideas and amazing sounds, topped off by one of my all-time favourite album covers

one of, if not THE essential psych record in my opinion. Later projects from Kevin like Currents may be more polished and even more distinct sonically, but Lonerism just hits in a special place of transformative, dreamlike bliss that simply cannot be topped

It may border on overblown, but each song is just so infectiously catchy and tightly constructed that it's hard not to fall in love with the album

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Sometimes I think: "do I really like this album THAT much?" And then I come back to it. And then come back to it again. And again. I find something so indescribably addictive about 'Get To Heaven,' which has made probably THE album I've returned to the most so quickly after I initially listened to it. The album cover ... read more

I could go to the smoking area outside a bar, blindly point to like 4 white dudes, and there's an 80% they're in a band that makes music like this

they INVENTED based

Rage Against the Machine song structure:
1: lay down the sickest bass line ever
2: hit you with sick ass guitar/drum beat
3: say the hardest line ever

I'm a little bit of a sucker for concept albums, so this is already right up my alley. I significantly enjoyed Quadankas' foray into taking himself more seriously as an artist, which I think really showed here.

The atmosphere is very dreary and dark, which complimented the sort of almost low vocal fry voice Quadingus was going for, so I actually got used to his voice quite quickly. I found the concept to be very interesting, exploring the thoughts of a someone recently deceased.

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Bit of a downer going back to 'The Never Story' after the colossal achievement of The Forever Story, but I can appreciate what JID did give us here, even if the return value isn't as great

It took a little while for the raw style of 'Lush' to really settle for me, but I've come to appreciate it a lot. The fact that she made this as a college project is insane, and she better have gotten a good mark for it

Probably the Mitski project I revisit the least out of all of her stuff, which is saying a lot because it's still a very solid set of songs. I think from song to song, the memorability doesn't hit as hard as her others, but I will admit that Retired from Sad is pretty underrated in the soul-crushingly sad category