Relwic

I'd list this among my five favorite albums ever, it's rather odd that people only attribute immense greatness to 鸽哨, as I find Moon Plate to be on the same level, if not possibly a bit better (quite a hot take, I think). Anyways, my favorite shoegaze record (Deathconsciousness is more of a mix than just shoegaze, so it still counts!!!) and probably the best album I've heard from an Eastern artist (I should diversify sometime, I admit) and an absolute masterpiece almost ... read more

"I remember the bookstore, long gone now, on Forty-Second Street. I stood in the narrow aisle reading the first paragraph of The Recognitions. It was a revelation, a piece of writing with the beauty and texture of a Shakespearean monologue-or, maybe more apt, a work of Renaissance art impossibly transformed from image to words. And they were the words of a contemporary American. This, to me, was the wonder of it."
- Don Delillo, also on the back of my copy OF The ... read more

I haven't listened to much BCNR, I confess, this is the only album of theirs I've heard. It is, in my eyes, rather overrated. Don't get me wrong; I enjoyed it, a good deal, in fact, and Basketball Shoes is up there with stuff like Vanisher, Horizon Scraper and The New Sound, but the rest of the album, for me, just didn't match up to some of the other really good recent shit. The overall musical style is a pretty interesting mixture of different styles, and maybe I was just ... read more