DAMN! So close to an easy 100 and a cake walk to my personal AOTY of 1989. If only "sin" hit for me as hard as LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE! Like holy shit this is like the best shit I've heard all month and is honestly the first album I heard for this project that truly belongs in the 90's. I am stupid hyped for what that decade has for in store! Cause if this NIN LP is any indication then I am in for a RIDE! Please listen to this album if you haven't yet it's very ... read more
![久石譲 [Joe Hisaishi] - 魔女の宅急便 [Kiki's Delivery Service]](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/68044-kikis-delivery-service.jpg)
Joe Hisaishi does it again with yet another endlessly charming and an incredibly easy to enjoy soundtrack to a classic Ghibli movie.
Recs:
- On a Clear Day
- A Town With An Ocean View
- The Baker's Assistant
- Surrogate Jiji
- Jeff
- A Very Busy Kiki
- Late For the Party
- Osono's Request
- A Propeller Driven Bycicle
- Heartbroken Kiki
- To Ursula's Cabin
- An Unusual Painting
- The Old Man's Push Broom
Instrumental is cool and all, but I am not vibing with the voice in the slightest.
Well that was brutally awesome!
Recs:
- Piece of Time
- Room With a View
- Why Bother
- No Truth
Gorgeous tribal ambient soundtrack album from reliable Peter Gabriel. It took a while for me to warm up but damn was I hooked by the second half of the album. Truly enrapturing stuff that should get many more revisits and general attention.
Recs:
- A Different Drum
- Zaar
- Open
- Passion
- With This Love-choir
- Wall of Breath
- Disturbed
- It Is Accomplished
- Bread and Wine
Everyone is raving about the sexy guitar tone and yeah it's cool and all, but it doesn't appeal to me so I couldn't care less.
Like a bunch of other albums in this genre it simply doesn't connect for me.
This is a fine cheery album that's a good casual time. Nothing offered begs for a second listen but I wasn't turned away from it.
( Yeah I am back on my long term project. The headphone situation is still going on but I feel a need to finish this stretch that I am in. The Bluetooth radio may not have the same direct sharp sound quality as my headphones but it'll do. I get everything I need and I get a good enough idea to make sound impressions. So back on the road we go! )
3 am YouTube Recommendation core and I love it so much.
https://youtu.be/98XRKr19jIE?si=H-SUIfRUR7UAkRrs
And yes that is Caroline Polachek before she went solo. She looks so young here. And the song is both strange, surreal, catchy, fun, and progressive. Very easy to fall in love with as I have when I personally was recommended the video at a strange hour of the night during the lockdowns. Good stuff. If I didn't have a job I would so go down the late night YouTube rabbit hole once ... read more
Hey look, a new single from The Garden!
Unfortunately I am not feeling this one. It's an unfortunate recent trend of my impressions of this band and their individual works as well. Some of their past work with it unhinged zany punk weirdness had me all over it. ( Examples: haha, U Want the Scoop, Mirror Might Steal Your Charm) But their more recent efforts aren't connecting with me.
People are comparing this with Enjoy's "Exploited" which I personally felt was ... read more
Well, it certainly exists.
U know what else exists? My headphone jack for my phone not working. Funny thing is that there's no Jack and the phone needs an adapter. Even funnier is the fact that the phone charges and does everything else just fine. It just doesn't register that I got a headphone plugged in, so the music or whatever plays through the speaker. I know that the headphone AND the adapter works since I tested them on other devices. So it's just a strange anomaly that I ... read more
It's decent. Liked the guitar track and a couple others.
Recs:
- Beautiful but Deadly
- No One Can Do it Better
- The Grand Finale
"Honey can I kick out our son yet? This is the third disturbing the peace complaint this week!"
Spiritual Worship in it's most passionate form. As a southern Baptist I naturally am not very familiar with Islamic music but with what I have been exposed to has been an absolute delight. They seem to take their beliefs WAY more seriously than us Christians and the music is way better than the contemporary stuff I grew up on. Still I think we got them beat with Gregorian chants and gorgeous choral hymns from various places and times.But I could easily eat my words as I listen to more ... read more
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