generalloveloss

Generational fall off coming June 26. Still seeing them live though because their first three albums + New Abnormal are straight heat and nothing can change that.

Update: grew on me drastically. I did not think this was going to happen.

Hayden locked in for this one song but the rest of this album is so disappointingly mid. When I heard this I wondered where it has been all my life and whether I had been wrong about 2025's AOTY all along. No, I was right. While this song in isolation is better than any one song on either Vanisher or Racing Mount Pleasant self titled, it is such an outlier in Ethel Cain's discography as a whole. The last minute may genuinely be the single most beautiful minute of music ever recorded ... read more

I considered giving this a 70 or a 75 or something like that but then I realized I was doing this thing I always do where I rate songs or albums based on a rigid scale of 1-10 where 10 is absolute perfection. Sometimes I need to realize, especially with songs and with artists like Malcolm Todd, that they're trying to make some fun music, not any crazy masterpieces. With that being said, this is peak Malcolm, wow. That chorus goes incredibly hard.

In a way, this album feels like Infinite Jest.
Even without considering the obvious and explicit connection between A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships and DFW's mammoth masterpiece through the track "Surrounded by Heads and Bodies" the themes throughout, and the overall vibe that is given, are just so similar. Healy's addiction and sobriety, the vastness of the work itself, the various disparate sounds and moods and lyrical themes that have nothing to do with each ... read more