fearofgravity

Such a rich text that I want to unpack more before I give it a rating. Meanwhile, people that only engage with art to add another number to their yearly lists continue to latch onto surface aesthetics instead of engaging with the text itself.

And if we are talking about surface aesthetics, the way the album is mixed is probably the best possible way to frame its narrative. Ghais is simultaneously direct as possible and also elusive. If I were to compare it to something, it’d be the ... read more

just dripping with creativity. grimes and d'eon both came into their own in the montreal diy scene and they've channeled what i believe is the culmination of that low-budget cinematic sound directly into this ep (thats really more of a split album if we're being real). each track plays less like a pop song and more like an ambient crawl, ideas building upon themselves in this tense push-and-pull. in a lot of ways, i draw parallels to a montreal contemporary in GY!BE, with this ... read more

I like that hes calling out these reviews. after the woods album, it became incredibly apparent to me how much this wensite has a hard time engaging in art in a critical way. its the thing that keeps me away from this site a lot of the time. reviews often come out of an account's desire to log another album on their profile than to actually engage in the art and understand it. Ghais Guevera's response to a lot of this criticism has given me more of a desire to really sit and dig ... read more