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𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 #𝟮

It's another EP that is only loosely an EP because it's the length of a regular album and it just has less songs on it... The material on here is definitely tightly compacted and provides a lot with relatively a little in terms of songwriting. Whatever the case is, I felt completely engrossed by it; the density of ideas on this release genuinely seemed to create a magnetic force around itself. There is a lot of heart and color to ... read more

𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 #𝟭

Latin America has an incredibly strong music scene that I can’t help but love. I feel a great sense of discovery every time I stumble across a band like Los Jaivas or Dolorio & Los Tunantes, whose music has a unique character that I truly can’t find anywhere else. Nicolás y Los Fumadores is another band to enter my vicinity out of this land, now through the word of the user Azeilthac participating in a 10/10 albums ... read more

𝔗𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔨 ℜ𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔢𝔴:

The intro to this song is quite literally Victorian. Now firmly into the second phase of BC,NR's career, 'Besties' reaffirms the band's transformed DNA of brighter instrumentation and more usual indie lyricism. Even then, you can see the thematic torch of complicated relationships carry over to it from Ants From Up There, alongside the inevitable influence of Isaac Wood's quirks on the writing ("I'm a walking ... read more

【Ｎｅｗ　Ｒｅｌｅａｓｅｓ　Ｄｉａｒｙ　＇２５】：𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 #1
This is a very good album, but I'm so mad that I couldn't hear what the samples were saying!!! That's not the fault of the mixing, it's just that my non-native speaker brain can't recognize words under layers of instrumentation!

Even then, I felt the message of the album pretty vividly. The three 10-minute songs comprising it almost feel like acts in a movie, depicting ... read more