Read my full review here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-182747191
LISTEN TO THIS FUCKING ALBUM DUDE YOUR MIND WILL EXPAND INTO THE INFINITY OF THE VOID AND YOUR FLESH AND BLOOD WILL SPILL UPON THE FLOOR AND YOUR SOUL AND MIND WILL ASCEND TO A HIGHER STATE OF BEING
ChatGPT can give some fire music recommendations, tbh.
This album’s pretty great. The final 17 minute drone/noise rock monolith is one of the best songs I’ve heard in the past few months. This is like Lightning Bolt but even more shitfaced and sinister. I want to check out some other stuff these guys have made. Also kinda reminds me of Shitgaze, especially bands like Icky Baby. It has that sort of lo-fi, guitar driven production.
Death Grips applies the misanthropic and hedonistic abrasiveness of rock/metal with the electronic experimentation and political and sermon-like nature of rap to create something really angry, ugly, beautiful and relevant to this generation.
In times like these, I think that artists like Death Grips are really important. These semi-mainstream artists devoted to rejecting social norms and exploring the hedonistic depravity that the US has held for the entirety of its post-WWII tenure are ... read more
I'm not a jschlatt fan, nor do I care to be based on how fucking annoying this entire review section is. I don't know whether the AOTY community has gotten that much worse or if his fanbase is just mentally deranged, but either way, something clearly went horribly wrong here.
I don't know anything about this guy, nor do I really know the context behind this album. But basically, this is a pretty good Christmas album. I'm a few days too late, but I like this album. It's ... read more
I feel like Sky Ferreira was a precursor for the sort of teen idols that we have today. Not that we didn't have them, for we certainly had them for decades, but they occupied a sort of glamorized, polished niche. Not to say that Sky Ferreira's moody, outcast, girly persona was wholly authentic, but the parasocial relationship which she developed with adolescents was so important for its time, and still remains important. She was one of the teenage artists who proved that it was ... read more
I've been trudging through the remaining Nick Cave albums which I haven't touched in the past week or so. It's funny that I've considered the Bad Seeds to be one of my top 3 favorite bands of all time when I haven't even listened to all their studio albums.
I gotta say that I found this one, if nothing else, interesting. There are several individual cuts that stick out to me, that's for sure. The titular opener is excellent. It feels like the Bad Seeds' take ... read more
One of the most beautiful albums ever made, and maybe my favorite Phil Elverum album ever. This feels like the sonic equivalent of Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror: this epic, dreamlike and autobiographical odyssey that takes you through this spiritual journey that causes you to ponder what we are, why we are the way we are, and why the past never seems to escape us. Whenever I listen to this album, I always feel like I am seeing another man's life flash before my eyes, like I am being ... read more
Just two months ago, I wandered inside a neighborhood art museum. It was a really heated and sunny day, since this was around when August was first at its central stage and summer was just leaving its apex in terms of the heat.
Within the museum, they were holding a photography exhibit. The entire hallway where they normally showcase most of the art was remodeled and turned into these dark hallways, where on the walls hung these ominous yet nostalgic photos of the Deep South, of the murky and ... read more
A still and unchanging block of chaos. An unravelling and monstrous achievement of joy, hatred, love, sex, chaos, depravity, pain, anger, and agony. A monumental, yet flawed, work that relishes in Death Grips' ferocious chase toward apocalyptic empowerment through means of testosterone-fueled rage and fury. They use their fragmented and confused hatred to create self-reflection within the listener.
There's no hatred or contempt toward the listener. There's a hotheaded detachment at most ... read more
Rock 'n roll at its final frontier. Minimalist, noisy, bluesy, punky, rebellious. Fantastic from start-to-finish. Messy and joyous. So many words to describe this. Meg White's simple yet punchy drumming and Jack White's squaking voice and noisy and demanding guitar playing create such a perfect sonic experience of youth, complete with a wryness and humor rarely found in the overproduced and self-serious bands of the time.
There's so much replayability here, from the iconic and subtly ... read more
I don't really know what I was supposed to be when I was born, and if it was intended by any sort of higher power, but if I had to guess, I'd say that I was born into this world a wanderer. An exile. I was supposed to be both significant and insignificant at once, when I'd find myself at the mercy of another's great plan for me. I’d find providence within both myself and in the world around me.
Everything was a set of boundless contradictions, because that was what I figured the world ... read more
Really cozy harsh noise that gives way to absolute hell all the way to dead, trembly sound. Holy shit. I am shaking.
For the first part, I thought to myself that I never knew that harsh noise could be this relaxing. The Rita takes the bombast and the atonal shrieks produced by cheap synths that are familiar with the harsh noise genre and turns it into a really peaceful experience. It feels like the equivalent of sleeping on a ship while you can faintly hear and imagine the thunderous storms ... read more
BRIEF REVIEW
Coming out of the blue after a brief break from this site to do a quick write-up and say that this is the best Sunn O))) album, really.
It creates a sense of etherealness and melancholy to give a voice to Sunn O)))'s dark void of drone and sound.
The entire album feels like you are in a giant, warmly lit, and empty cathedral in the middle of a Scandanavian winter and are being told by a pastor that you are being damned to hell for a personal failure of yours.
The concept of ... read more
Music can bring you to a place that no other medium can bring you to. There's no words. It sits with you. It can take you deep within yourself. It will comfort you, dazzle you, confront you, and create extraordinary revelations for you. Often, I forget what music can do for us.
I find nowadays in this existence I find myself in, I feel the need to consume something to fill a growing, never-filled void. To compensate for something that I can never seem to find. Everything is fine as of now. ... read more
As part of an album swap I did with a user named Ethan, I tried to make a quick write-up of my thoughts on each of the individual tracks off this album. I realized that it was too long and that I should probably just post it as a review, so here it is:
The Truth the Glow the Fall (10/10)
The opening song's intro is admirable, yet it winds on for too long. I feel like it's very patient and hypnotic, yet it elicits little emotion in me compared to the later parts of the album and could've been ... read more
I have lost touch with the beautiful. I struggle to find something truly sensual, something truly graceful, something truly awe-inspiring which burrows its way inside my soul. There's something deeply appealing to me, of course, about more accessible, more hipster, more abrasive music that has made up my music taste as of late. But then there's something great about what I used to listen to that's now less present.
Mostly, if I can remember correctly, it was CCM, house music and chamber pop ... read more
QUICK REVIEW:
Reminiscent of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's debut album in terms of atmosphere, this album is bluesy, bruised, and bleak.
This album conjures images of dust bowls, of the bowels of barren deserts and ghost towns, of cold nights and thick clouds flickering with flashes of white lightning, of dirty orphans hunched over and begging for coins as they cough out coal dust, of faded billboards and unimaginably large catastrophes.
This is the beautiful yet bleak side of country. This ... read more
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