We brought the chainsaws in the club!!!
This guy’s never been 100% my cup of tea, but I think this is my favorite song of his. Still very much vibes first, but the organ on the track is beautiful.
I think Rocky may be the most boring lyricist of his generation. I really liked him as an actor in movies last year though!
I am always extremely skeptical when an artist is seemingly popular only on here, but this one genuinely lives up. Really interesting take on what hip hop can be.
Okay I may be on mushrooms this evening, but I’m realizing Kelly Clarkson is one of the best to ever do it and has been disrespected (by me) for too long.
YO. I’m not even a huge Xiu Xiu guy usually, but this is phenomenal (esp Veneficium). After this and the other single, their new record might lowkey be my most anticipated for the rest of the year now.
Coming out of hibernation just to say I saw black midi live this week and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. These chaps are the real deal.
Somehow both better and worse than I expected. I’m glad Kanye’s mostly moved past the Jesus Is King sound, and there are some really great moments on here, but as a whole it’s shockingly incoherent, even for Kanye. I also have a hard time connecting with born-again Kanye on a personal level, so I just zone out completely during most of the praise Jesus stuff (which is like 75+% of his verses on here). It’s also about 60-90 minutes too long.
Favorite track: Jesus Lord ... read more
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Favorite tracks: AS Going
Least favorites: AS Flat, AS Tearless
If you told me in 2011 that at the end of the decade James Blake would release such an extroverted, pop-forward album of love songs I would have been devastated. I don't know if it's the times that have changed or me, but Assume Form ends up my favorite album of Blake's since his debut despite the more adult contemporary feel. It's really not like his sound has changed that much, but there's such a warmth and quiet joy to these songs, a refreshing change in James' sound I didn't know I needed. ... read more
This is one of two standout British R&B albums named Devotion that has come out this decade (though I do like Jessie Ware's a fair bit better). Tirzah's style is much more subdued, and, dare I say, amateurish compared to Ware's, but she leans so far into the imperfections of her voice and the minimalism of her songwriting that she's created a fairly singular approach to R&B with her debut. Tirzah's biggest coup, though, is in choosing the brilliant Mica Levi (apparently a longtime ... read more
I've been fascinated by this band ever since I first heard about them back when they were making screechy, psychotic dance punk, and they've finally begun to approach their whacky potential with Twisted Crystal. The deep, trippy, new wave-inspired mixes on this album sound like the score to a particularly psychedelic cartoon playing on Adult Swim's late-night block. GT's vocalist proves an apt guide through the chaos too, though her emotionally flat vocal approach does tend to wear on me over ... read more
SPOOKY MUSIC SERIES: #4
Goddamn. Now this is what I'm talking about. The Haxan Cloak really brings dark ambient into the 2010s here, folding elements of bass music and trip hop into the style's more traditional elements. Compositionally, Excavation isn't a whole lot less minimal than something like Lustmord's Where the Black Stars Hang, but Cloak's expanded sound palate and expert approach to sound design allow him to do much more with his compositions.
What strikes you first about Excavation ... read more
It's nothing too out of the ordinary hardcore punk wise, but CANDY delivered a pretty strong debut after luring me in with that gnarly album cover. In addition to the performances, which are exemplary all around, it's the noisy, chaotic mixes (yet somehow crystal clear production for this style) that keep me coming back to Good To Feel. They really do manage to conjure the dystopian, urban scene they display in that artwork with the music. I do hope they experiment a bit more in the future, ... read more
SPOOKY MUSIC SERIES: #3
So this is an interesting one. One of the tags on the Bandcamp page for this album is "death ambient", which is about as fitting a description as any for what Gnaw Their Tongues is doing here. Moving beyond the electronic palate of the 90s dark ambient releases I've looked at so far, this LP incorporates aspects of metal (distorted guitars, heavy drums, and harsh vocals), along with strings, ghostly, vaguely operatic vocals, and frequent dialogue samples. Yet, ... read more
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