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Turn on the Brights Lights for the stage that is the everyday melancholy of a city-dweller. New York City can be bleak most times, at least that's the first impression I got from it. Beneath the jagged surface, there is beauty to it even if isn't very joyful.
Interpol brings Post-Punk to the 21st century on their debut, instantly nailing all the aspects of the genre just right, without being just another Joy Division copy. The gloomy, Depressive atmosphere and jangly guitars paired with ... read more
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Bad Brains with their self-titled record deserves the award for the most hardcore punk record ever. Riffs so past they blow your hair back, drumming at insane breakneck speed, and of course the reggae cuts that still have the same attitude towards The Man as the rest of the album. The album cover displays this all, lightning striking against the constructs of everyday oppression that seems to be accepted by everyone else.
The energy Bad Brains give is infectious. The amazing vocal ... read more
Magdalena Bay brings forth some amazing synthesizer work on Imaginal Disk, creating their imagination world song by song. They draw inspiration from different musical eras, bringing them together under a retro-technology aesthetic. They have their own sound, which sounds like it has expanded exponentially since Mercurial World, and is represented on this concept album with crystal clear production.
The aesthetic reminds me a lot of vaporwave. There is no cheesy samples here, but the imagery ... read more
Like something discovered deep in radiation polluted Memphis sewers, Mista Thug Isolation starts with menacing and looming noise that slowly ramps up in complexity. It is a great intro to set the tone for this almost lost-in-time feeling this record has, with the style that comes from the 90s underground, as all the best hip-hop styles do. After you recover from this radiation burst, you're gonna hear some familiar 808s, incredible sampling and innovative rhymes that gave some fresh air to ... read more
While most people were recovering from the Y2K that passed with relative ease, the trio consisting of Dan the Automator, Del the Funky Homosapien and Kid Koala had already set their sights to thousand years forward to the year 3030. This record is futuristic in the way of telling the dystopian science fiction story of how life looks in the future, but also in the way of the forward-looking abstract beats that influenced many acts in the 2000s.
Del's off-kilter flow and eclectic rhymes fit ... read more
The moment sadboys from Sweden went international, Unknown Memory is a turning point for Yung Lean and the Cloud Rap sound as a whole. The production is upgraded to lush and ethereal beats from the previous album's simplistic vaporwave cuts, but the same feeling of DIY aesthetic is still there.
It is pretty easy to say now that this was the direction that rap music went, but back then it would be hard to predict that these Swedish teenagers would make such an impact. Some artists knew it ... read more
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music diary of old favorites, new music, and cult classics
few to many listens for every entry
library is vinyl that i've reviewed
few to many listens for every entry
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