There have already been several excellent reviews written about the political and cultural context of this album and its depiction of the “felinized clock of the South,” so I will refrain from retreading that ground here and will instead link one of those below. Instead, just some of my thoughts:
- Maybe the best sequencing on an album from 2025? The first track is more reminiscent of Joshua Chiquimia Crampton’s solo work, with small hints of clipping that creep in and ... read more
Dead end country. Dead end world. Rage and futility.
Everything you’ve ever known is ending, but you still have to care. You still have to wake up. You still have to go to work. You still have to go out to the show. You still have to still have to hold your loved ones.
Brazilian project ASTROPHYSICS has always been an intriguing assemblage of post-punk, shoegaze, coldwave, breakbeat, and hardcore, with the ratio of each shifting slightly on each release. This time, a bit more emphasis ... read more
Thank fucking god.
Following a period of experimentation that lasted seven years, two film & television soundtracks, three (3) Weeknd albums, and two attempted career retrospectives that - much like the speaker set on the cover of his 2023 LP Again - buckled and collapsed under the weight of their own ambition, Daniel Lopatin has finally returned with another actually good album. It’s hard to pinpoint precisely one issue I had with his last two projects. The addition of an ... read more
Listening to Perverts is a religious experience... in a literal sense. The text frequently invokes the concept of onanism, appropriately named for the pentateuchal character Onan, who was struck down by Yahweh for committing the sin of coitus interruptus (that is, the pullout method). Interpretations differ on the nature of the Lord’s displeasure in this instance, but one could (and Cain does) derive it from the Biblical demarcation of sexual activity being primarily a functional, rather ... read more
There is an item in the video game Fortnite called Slap Juice that you can throw at your feet to temporarily give you unlimited stamina. This shit makes me feel like I'm on Slap Juice