I don't know, while I liked it all the way through I couldn't help but feel like a lot of songs blended together, like the minimalist electronic sound starts being somewhat repetitive or the instrumentation starts feeling a bit stale or it sounds like other LCD songs. North American Scum sounds near exactly the same like Daft Punk Is Playing At My House. Make no mistake, it's a good record, all the songs are very groovy and danceable and James Murphy is still a good vocalist. And ... read more
Clicked grindcore, saw this album cover, pressed play, won't give any explanations. I have to give it to them, the cover does encompass how it feels to listen to this album, like a raw sack of meat. Anyway this album is kinda meh, at the beginning I thought I was going to hate it because it just sounded so stupid. But then it kind of grew old on me? Like the most shocking moments in the album are that first scare and the second part of Gravedancer, but the rest just kind of phases out ... read more
January hasn't even ended and we already got this bombshell of an album, Mac Miller's second posthumous album. This is the first time I sat down and listened to one of his records, before that all I knew him from was Good News, a great song that you should only hear once every few months. What an album! Coming from an outsider I'm surprised it sounded this good, everything is so abstract yet fits near flawlessly, with all of the jazz and psych musical elements that complement ... read more
I have a few mock exams coming up in a few days, and I can't really study well with most of the music I listen to regularly, I can't imagine someone remembering anything after having listened to loveless for 4 hours. But at the same time I can't have NOTHING playing, which is why I enjoy ambient music a fair bit, it feels like a sort of exit from reality that allows me to concentrate. I had been aware of Brian Eno and his ambient projects, so I decided to put it on while revising ... read more
holy shit the second half of this song had me levitating, first half is good but when the organ keeps going and the drums kick in thats what carries the song