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I'll keep this one relatively short, because I want you to listen to this masterpiece rather than read me rambling about it; which trust me I could do for a very long time. 'Of What We Have' is the latest output from Conneticut's own The Most, a 7-piece band who for a respectable number of years now have been blending dizzying Math Rock, Punk and Chamber-Jazz altogether into an accessible pop formula. Their first two releases, 'Important Things' and 'At Once' were on the more emo side of that ... read more

Mutant is an album best described as genuinely alien, in similar ways that Xiu Xiu or Scott Walker aim to make their listeners uncomfortable (see: Girl With Basket of Fruit / Bish Bosch), Arca uses her unique sound-design techniques to embody a sort of horrorcore Autechre. You really need look no further than the album cover to get a sense of the atmosphere she is trying to convey - though not necessarily through song since "songs" are a pretty loose fitting description to what ... read more

Volta is almost a pretty great album. The caveat being that isn't a great Bjork album.

I feel like that is most people's problem with the album (at least at first glance). Bjork set such impossibly high standards for herself with her discography up until this point: each album from Debut is more mesmerising than the last. Culminating in Medulla (her weirdest (and best) album to date), her run of albums in the 2000s alone would make any other artist's career. This is why Volta is so intriguing ... read more

Humans are so wildly obsessed with the number three. It's like some sort of embedded system within our coding to do things in thirds, or check things three times; every Mario boss must be hit on the head three times, etc. Hell even I'm guilty of these things (and an avid Mario fan), so for Do Make Say Think (DMST from here on) to present an album so meticulously divided up into thirds is a systematic-godsend. Each portion of Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn stands out so strongly by ... read more