(This is my song!) This is the longest I spent on a song and I think I may have made too much of a mess of the track, but then I was too far in to back out. I should have used more of a traditional sound here at parts. I don't think the synths were working too well. Also, it's hard to follow a coherent lyrics flow since the main vocals keep moving and changing in volume. The audio blowout at a certain part was uhhhhh.
But anyway, I do like the flow established here and the overall ... read more
(This is my music) The production is fine but it's kind of a boring listen. I like the instrumental but then there's a bit of a problem with it sounding very Garage Band-y.
(this is my music) I am happy with the ideas here but not the execution of those ideas.
Parts of this constructed very interesting spaces. I did not like the vocals very much.
Pleasant to listen to. Nice production and I like Sabrina's voice. I didn't feel any deep emotional connection to any of the songs but I think it's just thematically something I don't relate to very much.
Here's the thing: There were a lot of parts of these songs where I thought, wow, this instrumentation is actually amazing and interesting and then the background vocalists would do something like sing "my oh my" and I would just go "Oh"
But like a lot of the instrumentals are interesting, novel, experimental and beautiful. It's just that I can't do it with the vocals and lyrics and they're not very ignorable since they're really layered in there and ... read more
I could have understood the story this album is telling by its instrumentation alone. It conveys such deep and powerful longing, with undercurrents of impending doom and darkness even in its lightest moments. Despite and somehow even assisted by the hyperpop-y vocal style, the ethereal production and trippy/broken/occasionally untuned instrumentals work together to paint the imperfect texture of human emotion as it contends with and eventually submits to all-powerful cosmic forces (inevitable ... read more
Not my favorite Radiohead album, I think it drags a bit. But also definitely their most solid album and the one I think is worth the highest ranking if I'm being somewhat objective about it.
This is my favorite Porter Robinson album, although I altogether don't think it's as solid as Nurture. The highs on this album are great, it's just less consistent. I feel like I'm exploring another planet. I really like the first and last few songs.
Comforting, textured, warm. Soaked in nostalgia, accepting pain and learning to embrace it as strength. Really makes me feel like I am lying in a field, far away from real life. Album cover very accurate. This is Porter Robinson's peak album (in my opinion).
There are some amazing songs on this album, but it is hard to listen to just because of the production. I know I'm being overly judgemental for an album released by a still pretty small band in the late 60s, though. This is very unique, emotional, and psychedelic.
A Pillow of Winds summarizes the mood for this album concisely. I wish the good part of Echoes wasn't 17 minutes in. But it wouldn't be good if I didn't have to wait for it.
I don't get the hate. There are some great songs on the final cut (Two Suns in the Sunset, Not Now John, The Hero's Return). But yeah, it does drag. It's sad and slow. Still a great album. Production was WAYY ahead of its time.
The closest thing to a perfect album that exists, I think. Can't believe this dropped in the early 70s. I surprisingly feel a lack of emotion when I listen to this. It does not paint a scene in my head as much as some other music. But it's so captivatingly, beautifully produced, it floats, the instruments feel like they are talking. Synths and electric guitars breathe. I can feel themes of death and the endless marching of time pulsing throughout. I'm just a part of the universe ... read more
No album makes me more depressed. Literally no other album makes me this depressed. Some parts are hauntingly, achingly gorgeous. The end is just annoying. But what a ride. You keep hoping the end will come faster, or something will get better. Spoiler alert: It does not. But that's kind of the idea.
It's hard for me to convey why I love this album as much as I do. It feels like a cloudy, gray-sky, humid summer day in the city where it's in the low 80s and it may rain soon. I'm just kind of waiting for something to happen but enjoying the suspenseful calm and aloneness of the present.
I can't express how much this is not typically what I listen to. I love this album so much. On first listen I wasn't that pulled in. It seems to be unique in that the more I listen, the more I fall in love. Its charm is so subtle and hard to miss. But the hooks just get caught in your head. The album cover is an accurate depiction of the space this music creates. If you don't like it yet, you need to listen again.