Final Fantasy game music x death metal

One of the best songs of the year so far.

Barely a bad track here

Almost as good as Amanecer, and under the gorgeous instrumentals lies an eloquent call for environmental justice 💜

substantially better than Dedicated

This album does the world a service in its time of need by slapping really fucking hard

Colossus of Rhodes: 90
Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile: 80
The Surprise Knock / One Kind of Solomon / You'll Need a New Backseat Driver: 75
Leather on the Seat: 70

I kinda forgot what the rest of the album sounds like

This album is being criminally overlooked. Despite hitting one or two snags ("A Meal for Leaves", "Annie"), Omoiyari excels at offering a personal-is-political take on Japanese internment, grounded in Kishi Bashi's usual stories of love found and lost and featuring newfound, gorgeous live instrumentation. Kishi Bashi always sounded beautiful, but rarely did he simultaneously sound gritty. For critics who ate up early Sleigh Bells or recent ANOHNI, the balance should seem ... read more

If I ever get married / have a commitment ceremony I'm going to slow dance to "Oblivions".

I've listened to "Not in Kansas" on repeat already like 10 times and it so perfectly describes the general malaise of late capitalism/the Trump administration

Seriously this album has made at least half of my year

The singles ("UFOF" and "Cattails") are incredible.

EDIT: the front half is still stronger to me, but the bottom half still has its highlights, particularly "Orange" and "Jenni". The back half also contributes to the album's general summer-twilight ambiance and flows well with the rest of the album.

EDIT 2: OMG the second half has really grown on me over the last several listens, "Terminal Paradise" most of all

Edit: UFOF has def surpassed FotB for me after many listens to each. I like most of the tracks on FotB, but I wonder what could have been if VW hadn't given up the quirky specificity of Modern Vampires due to Ezra's "revelation" to write more direct songs after a Kacey Musgraves concert. Sometimes specificity and weirdness /is/ more direct. There's nothing that comes even close to "Hannah Hunt" or "Step" on this album. That said, it's still a solid album that ... read more