TAKYONZUSHI

For a while, a friend told me that watching paint dry is a transcendent experience, and that I should try it. Not boring, not tedious. Transcendent. Just be patient, and let the stillness wash over you. And eventually, I sat down and watched paint dry.

It was just paint drying.
I tried again, hoping that maybe I'd missed something. Nope, still paint, still dry.

Apparently I just don't get it.

Volcano is a dance song I would say is good but now that I think about it maybe it only ... read more

Peggy famously recorded over 100 songs for Veteran and just edited them down. I don't think it's crazy to say most of those tracks took less time to produce than their actual runtime.

And what I mean by that is half the album is just filler bullshit disguised as art. It's either shitposts like My Thoughts on Neogaf Dying that get stale once you listen to them more than once or.. whatever Germs is.

It hurts because there are undeniable bangers like Baby I'm Bleeding and ... read more

For the First Time is like a Jewish wedding where everything is on fire and there is a couple and one of them has a saxophone for a head and the other a violin and they are both screaming at each other and in the middle of it all is Isaac Wood having a very eloquent mental breakdown.

Most of us know the story about how Panchiko were discovered because that story is inseparable from the music. The 4chan mysteries, the disc rot, the accidental cult status, probably the best PR a band has never paid for. But when you actually press play and listen to the music it's just... a solid dream pop record? It's fuzzy, it's nostalgic, it sounds like the year 2000 if you weren't alive then.

Sometimes I like to put the album cover as my profile picture to kind of ... read more