The only emo album I’d consider a proper comfort listen for me, there’s something so infectiously fun about the simple melodies found throughout this. Even through some of the more devastating storytelling found on songs like bedroom community, dallas, and the title track there’s such a fuck it we ball nerdy energy within the instrumentals and (mostly) vocal delivery I still register it in that “wholesome good times” part of my brain.
Dallas is a particular ... read more
This was weird.
All the newer stuff is significantly lighter in tone than the original tracks/lyrics so the constant jump between the two just dulls the entire experience.
Plus Ravenous House has some cool lyrics but the ending being pretty much a metaphor for finding God kinda throws away the whole all encompassing “teens given a world that doesn’t suit them” theming I resonated so hard with in high school. This album generally feels like it went from being about ... read more
these songs are always so abstract but somehow deeply relatable in an unexplainable way. this song sounds how the act of starting a new routine to better yourself and loving the results feels
it starts tense but builds on itself and grooves on itself and by the end i’m hearing harmonies i never thought possible and a strange love for the world i never knew I was missing and I just lingerrr on that feeling and it’s sooo nice.
“i wonder if i might be going crazy” part in ... read more
Listened after watching the Get Back documentary and yikes I think I finally get the Phil Spector hate. He didn't 'ruin' the album or anything but his maximalist production on the slower tracks takes away a bit from the original composition and songwriting.
There was a part I think towards the beginning of part 3 of the documentary where they try to get a good recording of The Long And Winding Road down, and Paul's vocal performance, with the context of The Beatles being on ... read more
bangers upon bangers upon mid upon more bangers
this might be my second favorite beatles album behind abby road, the fuck it we ball energy within this entire album is so fun i don't even mind when the songs are bad. it's like they couldn't settle on a vision for the album so they said fuck it and released a homunculus mesh of every deranged sound they could've gone with, they throw every idea at the wall and let you the listener decide what should've been cut and ... read more
It’s been one full listen and I can already see why this is one of the most popular albums of all time. It took till I was two thirds in before I remembered I was listening to an album with a tracklist and instruments and producers and shit, the atmosphere is so beyond perfect that from the first 60 seconds it transcends music and becomes something indescribable.
King Kunta, u, How Much A Dollar Cost, and Mortal Man are obvious standouts but For Sale and Momma are also incredible songs ... read more
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This movie single-handedly made me like ‘take me home country roads’. This soundtrack’s whimsy and cozy atmosphere fits the movie’s themes so perfectly too like holy fhghgh
I want to create so much art I love art I love the process of creation and the joys of the pursuit of greatness and I think if I truly processed how beautiful the act of creating is I’d just die I love making art I will never stop making art thank you yoshifumi kondo thank you yuji ... read more
Thought I’d listen to this after finishing the underscores album for shits and giggles and I cut myself on a piece of metal within one minute and now I’m in the ER. This is not a joke. Deadass how did he do that.
April Harper Grey has this way of getting you hyped up for the scientifically engineered, lab tested, objective greatest combination of noises a computer can produce, only to intentionally underdeliver just slightly. I mean that as a compliment, most these songs reach several stages of peak euphoric bliss that cut out just before you can get used to it and it keeps the album moving at this exciting pace for a half hour.
It makes the replay value insane, the way the album ended I felt like I ... read more
Atmosphere is kinda insane, this song really feels like it was made a year after the world already ended
Greener and Ruler of Everything are so good they make me wish Banana Man wasn’t casually racist
Consistent as hell, gotten me through some of the worst closing shifts I've worked recently. PUSH UR T3MPRR and KATAMARI are prob my favorites but the catchiness of P3T and MURDER EVERY 1 U KNOW and the expansive production of ACT RIGHT, like fuck any of these could totally grow into being my favorite femt track in the future
Tracks 2-5 blur together a lil bit but I loved the variety on the second half a lot. Very consistent from start to end quality-wise (Head Up prob my favorite). My only real complaint is I wish the slower tempo songs were able to build on themselves a little more before ending, makes them feel kinda stagnant. Very short and sweet femt album though, gets a two thumbs up out of ten
This saddens me. I've heard a few of Joji's bigger songs like Glimpse of Us and Slow Dancing In The Dark but this is the first full release I've heard from him and feels like a well-produced collection of demos more than an actual album.
When the singles were released I saw glimpses (get it?) of cool themes like 'heartbreak' or 'being sad in the club' that I was confident joji would be able to explore thoroughly over the course of 45 minutes. Singles like ... read more
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On Car Seat Headrest - Teen of Denial: Joe's Story
"Also I wanna clarify I don’t have an issue with religion in music or anything, if all the new material was put into a new ep or album separate from the original 2016 tracks I’d probably love it, it just feels tonally dissonant when put alongside the original album which was a lot angrier / more pessimistic."
On Car Seat Headrest - Teen of Denial: Joe's Story
"@klienosh …that same sorta theming. The swearing of the entire album being censored too, which I know was mainly to appeal to casual listeners outside the fanbase and so the album could be held in places like libraries, still winds up coming off like it’s trying to push itself further into that theming.
Idk it probably sounds like I’m grasping at straws, and I might be, but all those factors make it feel like it’s at the very least being used as a motif"
On Car Seat Headrest - Teen of Denial: Joe's Story
"@klienosh honestly it mainly is loosely connected quotes, in ravenous house especially. The story of Joe being broken from childhood, having that broken feeling escalate towards “who’s eyes were on me” and “how can I come back” and eventually ending the song with “the bill’s already paid if you decide that you want love”, it all felt very similar to the preaching I’ve heard of giving yourself to God and whatnot. To be fair though I was looking through the genius annotations as I listened which listed a lot more comparisons to various bible verses, so that probably colored my interpretation as well.
Even before that song, lines like “I want a sign from god” on fill in the blank and “temptation coming and going” on Joe Drives Again imply…"
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