Peggy has come a long ways for sure. The atmosphere is cool sometimes...
Smooth, funky, fun. Will brighten your day.
Highlights: Electric Fish, Boy of Stranger Things (Winona Ryder's son), Dr. Sabe Tudo
Another John Dywer And Friends experiment, which as usual yields mixed results. Sometimes it's totally serene and beautiful, but mostly quite bizzare. "Ruth's Mouth" is the closest we get to a normal song.
Highlights: Ruth's Mouth, Memory Mirror Floweth Over, Sound The Unknown
Big, fun, feel good jams. Some tracks go real hard with the percussion.
Highlights: School Me Like That, Hit The Bucket, CornerStore, Power, Mani Osai
CHILLS
Honestly, I don't really know what to say about this. Was it enjoyable? Not really, but it's a totally engrossing experience, from the degrading quality of the opener to the hysterical breakdown of the end.
MAY THIS COMFORT AND PROTECT YOU - absolute banger
Highlights: ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL, IDUMEA, PRECIOUS LORD TAKE MY HAND, MAY THIS COMFORT AND PROTECT YOU, HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING
Highlights: Miss Modular, The Flower Called Nowhere, Diagonals, Rainbo Conversation, Refractions in the Plastic Pulse, Contronatura
Pretty basic, enjoyable enough. Sam Smith isn't a bad singer at all but, just don't like his voice and I don't think the two sound good together.
Such an entrancing album.
Highlights: Tone Burst, Pack Yr Romantic Mind, I'm Going Out Of My Way, Golden Ball, Pause, Jenny Ondioline
Sort of conflicted on this record, it's well produced and written, plenty of catchy riffs and vocal parts, and it's pretty funny too but, I think im just fatigued on Dorian after My Agenda. Kind of over this aesthetic and sound palette. And the horny doesn't quite hit this time around either, nothing here can top Give Great Thanks for me.
Highlights: Idolize, Sodom & Gomorrah, Phonies
Definitely one of the most interesting records I've heard this year. It's got roots in hip-hip and indie, with electronica some chamber pop, and an avant-garde presentation. The songwriting and loose song structures didn't always do it for me, but despite the very understated vibes every song manages to swell and boil over with great production.
Feels a little underwhelming. But, the end of Set really caught me off guard.
I almost feel bad for rating this, since I was pretty sure I wasn't gonna like it. Boy, I love being right.
I really, really don't like Oliver Tree. I really don't like the "weird guy", quirky surreal front he puts up, then drops the blandest, nothing music. The product of picking indie pop trends from the last 10 - 15 years out of a hat. His music could be performed by probably anyone else. I'd say I wouldn't be able to tell, but I could maybe notice the lack of the awful vocal ... read more
OPN records definitely take me some time to digest, but Again succeeds upfront in plenty of ways. Krumville and A Barely Lit Path are two of Daniel's most beautiful tracks I can think of. There's a ton of strange and alien, yet familiar and liminal sound design which is what I love most about OPN stuff. Generally, you will start each track wondering where it could possibly go, and it's never where you expect.
Highlights: Again, World Outside, Krumville, The Body Trail, Nightmare Paint, ... read more
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