The biggest compliment I can give Dirty Projectors is that they really have carved out their own sound. If someone had played this for me blindfolded I would be able to tell from the opening guitar part alone that it's a Dirty Projectors song - no one in indie rock really writes them like David Longstreth.

Now that it appears the R&B-electronic turn on 2017's self-titled album was more of a pitstop than a destination, the structure of "Break-Thru" feels like a retreat back to the ... read more

Don't care to organize my thoughts:

-I don't think people are as impressed with the whole "I just finished it three hours ago lol" commentary as she thinks. If she really has been working on this throughout the past four years then she probably needed to axe a decent number of tunes to get to the final batch here, and yet there's still so much filler??!

-As a lead single, "Chun-Li" is measurably better than "Anaconda" but sadly does not have the latter song's ... read more

The best thing all parties have been involved with in a while

I mean I guess as a joke song/Ebro troll it's kind of funny but y'all can't act like you're excited about this possibly being one of only seven songs on his new project.

Fascinating debut from Nanna Fabricius. In terms of bedroom-pop, it skews more towards Julia Holter's 'Ekstasis' than anything else, but is much more heavily influenced by the Scandinavian pop scene as well as Fabricius's own soap opera-worthy backstory - she was originally a ballerina who turned to music after a slipped disc effectively ended her dance career. The fact that music was only her backup plan is baffling, since she sounds completely in her element here. The excess of minor-key ... read more

The title track is so gorgeous and a few other songs are some of her best material ever. Unfortunately, there are a ton of corny songs in the second half that really drag it down. I bought a signed copy on her Pledgemusic because I still stan though.

Favorites: Favor Friends, Earth Sick, Doubt My Legs, Half-Hero, Trailblazer
Least Favorites: Little Things

Ok but Magalenha is that bop.

Better with the music video but I still can't deny it's easily the weakest of the songs she's released so far.

Love or hate her self-titled record, but at the bare minimum it was interesting. That's much more than can be said about Somebody's Miracle, which scrubs nearly all of Phair's personality clean in favor of by-the-numbers adult easy listening. No blunt sexuality, no bold instrumental choices, and no F-bombs (unless you count "Can't Get Out of What I'm Into," a re-recorded song from her Girlysound days that eclipses nearly everything here despite being billed as a "bonus ... read more

A clunky odds-and-ends record that makes several unfortunate attempts at comedy. The songs that don't feature rapping, cringe-y spoken word or novice Fruity Loops production have some decent ideas, but there's not enough to make anyone declare that the "old Liz" is back. They're enjoyable though, especially the vulnerable "You Should Know Me" and the atmospheric, gorgeous "Bang! Bang!," which offer the most optimistic glimpses of what Phair's career would look like ... read more

For some reason my dad really loved this album and played it in the car all the time. He put "Polyester Bride" on a mixtape for me and I immediately fell in love with it. Later that year she put out "Why Can't I" and I had to listen to him bitch every day about how she "sold out." To my nine-year-old ears there wasn't that much of a difference, I mean "Johnny Feelgood" really could have been on either album, right?

Favorite Songs: Whitechocolatespaceegg, ... read more

"bless ur heart" finds Josiah Wise sharpening the melodic focus of his previous material, making a mouthwatering teaser for his first proper album. His ivocals have a hint of Abel Tesfaye but with a razor sharp melisma that effortlessly holds attention throughout the stream-of consciousness verses. Where songs on 2016 EP "blisters" gave way to choruses that seemed to be from entirely different songs ("blisters," "four ethers"), "bless ur heart" ... read more

This was my personal AOTY for 2013, which may have been partly influenced by it being my first true exposure to Neko Case, and THAT voice. There's this timbre to Case's singing that's so commanding but sweet. The way she attacks the notes is striking, and some songs here wouldn't have left much of an impression in the hands of a less-capable singer.

But holy hell this thing is hook-y, even as many songs forego traditional verse-chorus structures. "I'm From Nowhere" cycles through ... read more

one more fire single before may 18 plz mommy

UPDATE 5/23/18: Unfortunately this kind of let me down - Courtney really dropped the best songs first, and the vast majority of the deep cuts didn't leave much of an impression on me. Pitchfork is dead wrong for describing "Nameless Faceless" as "box-ticky" though.

Favorite Songs: Hopefulness, City Looks Pretty, Charity, Nameless Faceless, Need a Little Time

UPDATE 5/25/18: Just realized I listed the first five songs as favs so ... read more

is anyone going 2 tell her that equating femininity with having a vagina is #problematic ???

UPDATE 4/30/2018: Adding 5 points bc I LOVE the extra verse in the Emotion Picture version.

If the recording quality were a little better and she didn't do the yelling part this would be a solid 9/10 (the somewhat tired house production preventing it from being a 10). As is... well, at least it's better than Escapades...

UPDATE 5/24/18: nipples

the instrumental is trap meets elevator music ? ? ? ? ?

this will convert more gays to country than joanne did

im just sippin on chamomile
watchin boys and girls and their sex appeal
with a stranger in my face who says he knows my mom
AND WEEEENT TO MY HIIIIIGHH SCHOOOLLLL

Edit 4/6/18: It's better than Migos's album, and not just because it has a stomachable number of songs.

ok but I know i'm not the only one who hears Good Feeling by Flo Rida in Buses Splash with Rain.