queerple

(meeple)

probably the trippiest hoppiest folktronica i've heard. most songs off here have immaculate drum samples, such as She Moves She and As Serious As Your Life. gives me very heavy Beats and Breaks From the Flower Patch vibes, but without the whole happy kitty flair :<. the other instrumentals are great too, with most of them being relaxing guitar lines or chopped up samples ranging from harps to synths. this is a groovy ass album, and it'll definitely have a place in my study rotation!

amazing instrumentals. only issue I have with them is that they're way too short :(

oh and apparently Doug Walker is on vocals too. honestly I thought this would make me hate it but idk, I honestly kinda like it??

sorry for the lack of reviews lately, been much more active on rym as of late

(!!!Slight Negative Nancy Alert!!!)

I have a friend who's really into Vocaloid, specifically Hatsune Miku and the UTAULOID Kasane Teto. Now, I like this friend. Quite a lot actually. But every time I look at this dude's Spotify profile and see almost every album cover showered in these characters, it gives me like a Vietnam flashback to the time I listened to the first song off this album like a year ago.

Big shocker to some people, I don't really like a lot of electronic ... read more

I understand that Ghost Folks came before this, but this might as well be their debut.

Unlike much of their later music, The Winter Ray takes a relatively minimal approach to their songwriting. The band's folk influences are much more sparse on this album, and their tribal influences are completely absent. Fortunately, this album really thrives with this minimalism. What I mean by that it just makes me feel incredibly lonely. The stripped-back instrumentals with only slight blemishes ... read more