What a stunning project. "cLOUDDEAD" is a very unique album. It mixes ambient and hip hop together to make a very spiritual sounding record. What you get are these ambient beats and this floaty rapping style that I cant really describe. It's like cloud rap but more cohesive in a sense. I love how open it sounds and how lush it is. I love the pure ambient passages they throw in like "(Cloud Dead Number Five) (1)". I love the charisma you can feel coming off cLOUDDEAD. It's ... read more
A true summer time album. "Nurture" is a nostalgia filled good time. It takes what Porter was doing on Worlds and puts a summer-y, dreamier, warm twist on it. This feels like so much love was poured into it, and the ambition shown on here is remarkable. All the songs have a similar nostalgic feeling, but they each do something different with it. "Musician" deals with it by trying to describe it as a hurdle you need to overcome, while "Blossom" does a romantic twist ... read more
Jean dawson does it again. This ep has some great stuff on it and really shows why Jean is the future of music. These songs are versatile, dreamy, and fun. It's just a great time.
This guy can’t miss. He can’t make a track that wont bring you to tears.
I love the beeps and boops fr. “Worlds” is a great showcase of Porter Robinson’s abilities as a composer. He makes these tracks feel so special and unique. He makes them develop in their own way and push boundaries. The feelings that can come from this record are deep and profound, like you’re discovering yourself for the first time. It feels like you’re actually in a futuristic city, dancing with the street lights, never looking back no matter how hard it gets. ... read more
I love taking my Spiritualized pills! "Everything Was Beautiful" can really tug on the heart strings when it wants to, and it has great music to back it up. It only has 7 songs on it, but it utilizes these tracks so elegantly and tastefully. The sound of the record is pretty honest with the title. It's all beautiful and colorful. It never feels like were slowing down or speeding up, we just keep this nice pace that never gets too muddied or dull. The lush feelings "Everything Was ... read more
Nothing hurt indeed. "And Nothing Hurt" is Spiritualized chill album. They make laid-backed rock that puts you in a trance and calms the soul. It's a trip from one song to the next, pulling you further in with each minute. The cool atmosphere adds to the records numbing nature and makes it feels like a walk in the forest late at night. It's like a colorful grey that you cant quite describe. The only complaint I can see is that sometimes it borders on boring. It doesn't happen often, ... read more
Huh? “Sweet Heart Sweet Light” is a direction I didn’t want Spiritualized going in, but he did anyway so now I have to explain why I think this is just ok. The songs don’t carry over the beauty of past records. They sound more dull than anything. Some songs have a little bit of a spark in them, but most of them are decent at best. It just confuses me on why the further I delved into this record the less I got out of it. I was looking to have a more positive spin on it, ... read more
I wanted to like this album so baaaad. “ If Looks Could Kill” is something of a fractured listen. The length of the project takes away from the true great moments. I’ll get my positives out of the way first. Destroy lonely is definitely getting better at rapping. His charisma is high and I really like the persona he portrays on this record. The first 4 songs are pretty good, and they keep the vibe alive for as long as they can before the true blandness creeps around the ... read more
This is the record I was hoping Spiritualized was gonna make. “ Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space” is hailed as the pinnacle of space rock, and they’d be right. This is super dreamy and glossy. It’s the sound he was working on with laser guided melodies fully realized. From the first track you get whisked away into this spacey landscape filled with hollow guitars, glossy synths, and echo-y vocals. The entire record feels like a concert in space. If feels like ... read more
Spooky ahh cover ๐ “Laser Guided Melodies” is the first project from spiritualized, and you can tell he didn’t have his sound figured out all the way. You can see where he’s going for sure, but this record is messy and in some cases underwhelming. The songs follow one of two paths. Either Structurally messy but beautiful, or structurally sound but stale. The beauty of a track can carry it, and in most cases on this album it does. Some tracks have nothing going for ... read more
Thanks for the info Lana! “ Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd” is your typical Lana record. It has to many ballads and can get annoying at some spots, but as a whole it’s really good. My one other problem is the ending. Why would you make that the final song? It makes no sense, but that’s Lana for you. Anyway, most of the songs on here are great and show off her strengths. When she does do a ballad she puts her all into it and conveys emotions so ... read more
This man was one of the biggest rappers on the planet. How do you fall off that bad bro ๐๐๐
A perfect follow up. "Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak)" is more of a singer songwriter outing for Slauson, and I believe that it's the perfect record to follow up A Quiet Farwell. It builds up on what he was doing on his previous release and covers more ground that he didn't already. It's a very emotionally driven record, and that just makes it more beautiful. All the songs are great and feel deep and personal. They drown you in this indescribable atmosphere that feels ... read more
When I first heard this record I was shocked. I didn't know who Slauson Malone was or what this record had in store for me. I clicked play and the second that the album started I knew that I was in for something special. "A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018" is one of the most unique records I've ever heard. It's breath taking from beginning to end and the experience of listening to an album like this is unexplainable. Everything was done so perfectly and meticulously, every detail sewed into ... read more
Huge fall from grace. "Halcyon Digest" is the most popular Deerhunter album for some reason, and it really pisses me off that this gets more recognition than their first few. This record has a 4th of the creativity of Cryptogram and Weird Era Cont., it's painfully boring in some spots, and it has no color whatsoever. The first half of the record is so boring. From Earthquake to Memory Boy we get the most boring half assed indie rock imaginable with nothing Great or bad about it. It's ... read more
Now THIS is the Deerhunter I know. "Weird Era Cont." is what I needed from Deerhunter after Microcastle. It sounds fun, lively, creative, and weird. These songs can grab your attention and make you listen vividly. They'll make you feel emotional in the best ways and they'll make you rethink your definition of Deerhunter. The whole record reads like an acid trip, with a climactic finish that will have you in tears. I hoped that they would've built up this sound even more on their next ... read more