Much more aligned with the title than the first volume of "ambient" works. I found it difficult to engage with this album and it turned out that it was better to actually not engage with it. Letting it play was just the right idea. Described it to my friend as a great album if you want to listen to meditation music and be afraid periodically. Like a bad trip
Not quite as impressive as the 2024 EP, but still great
Listened because I was hooked by the quirky title and artist, stayed because this stuff is genuinely awesome
Honestly one of the best records I have heard this year. It's just so insanely spacious and full at the same time. It feels like a new therapy designed to tap into parts of your brain that have laid dormant for decades. Highly, highly recommend listening to this.
I was first introduced to this album in 2020 and looking back it is a critical part of my current music taste. The spacey-ness that's kind of spread over everything in the album is I think what intrigued me so much. Arlie also did a wonderful job at creating melodies that never really leave your head. The two biggest examples of this in my opinion are the chorus of didya think and that crazy loud synth on water damage. Still gives me chills.
I was a little disappointed because the few songs that I had heard from Broken Social Scene I really clicked with, so I assumed that this album would be incredible. It was okay. I mean, the unique sound is certainly interesting, and I'm fairly sure this record was influential, but it hasn't influenced me much.
Very solid record, it's a little up and down, but they sprinkled the great tracks throughout evenly enough that it's still good. I do appreciate an album that ends with a strong track and they definitely achieve that with The Good Times Are Killing Me.
I remember this album from my era in 2020-21 where I was really into bedroom pop and so was my ex girlfriend. She introduced me to Current Joys and they were kind of a soundtrack to my at-home life for a few months. This album gets the fuzziness right and is so emotive. Wonderful
I do like the slightly more adventurous direction this record takes in terms of what we're used to from the Strokes. I anticipate their next album will lean more into the experimentation and I'm excited to see where it goes. Not sure if it will be well received because of that, though.
Absolutely the blueprint for modern singer-songwriter music. Every indie folk musician used to just take inspiration from Bob Dylan and Nick Drake, but Adrianne Lenker can definitely now be added to that list. What an influential album.
okay yeah this absolutely lived up to the hype. This is my first dedicated introduction to Geese and I am blown away. Every song unique and a banger.
First off, we can't ignore the album cover. Arguable the craziest one I have under my belt now. It's obviously a parody of black metal band logos but with the juxtaposition of bright-ass colors. It almost looks like it should be glowing. The tracks are wonderfully smooth and kind of just flow through your ears. One of my friends started calling the kind of alt-pop indietronica we're getting now (arguably started with the popularity of BRAT and continued most recently with ... read more
I was already a big Bon Iver fan, as I'm sure most were, from For Emma, Forever Ago. This album is my first run-in with electronic folk music and it's a niche I think I like a LOT. This is one of those albums that sounds like walking through a modern art museum. A little pretentious, maybe, but if you immerse yourself in it, it's a great experience. Everything Bon Iver experiments with on here also isn't entirely incomprehensible, making this record kind of inspiring. Back ... read more
This was one of those situations where the experience was life-changing. This album is now my reference for perfect production. I also was just in the best headspace possible for this album and listened to it with a friend stoned off our asses. Wonderful experience, wonderful album. Just wow.
The rawest sounding CSH I've heard so far, but I've never listened to anything earlier than 2015 so that isn't really saying much. I thought it was cool that the first track includes lyrics from the last track of Twin Fantasy, I love how CSH is able to tie everything they do together not just within an album but across them as well. My favorite track off of this one is for sure The Drum, but I really wish that the NPR Tiny desk version were easily streamable, I love that version ... read more
This was by no means a bad record, but it was honestly just kind of uninteresting. The prominent thought I had about this is that it sounded closer to an album from the early 2000s than 2025?
Dove into this after listening to Eyelid Movies to try to satiate my new hunger for indietronica and boy was this good.