Yeah I think this is my favourite album ever made, ever in the world ever. It's a cross-section of basically every aspect of music I like in the space of 40 minutes.
This cover looks like Ringo bumped into the Blackstar album cover on vacation.
"Holy cow, honey, look! It's the Blackstar cover! Quick, get a photo of me in front of it!"
This was very good! IDK was able to switch seamlessly between braggadocio to self-reflection, helped by just how cohesively the beats merge into one another. It's a mixtape but I felt as if I was listening to a full realised project.
I'm cool like that (i'm not)
I'm cool like that (i'm really not)
I'm cool like that (i listen to glass animals)
I'm cool like that (i watch scott the woz)
I'm cool like that (i play indie rpgs)
I'm cool like that (i'm a vegetarian)
I'm cool like that (i'm british)
I'm cool (i'm not)
You can definitely see why Deceptacon is the song everyone remembers Le Tigre for now but their debut album here had a definite formative influence on the great dance-punk revival of the 2000s, and more relevant to today you can really see the progenitors of the 'indie sleaze' scene coming through here. Their lyrics are snotty and condescending, but the fuzzy, lo-fi guitars and punk hallmark of nasal, half-yelled singing paint them as more earnest than they let on.
Being raised on a healthy diet of licensed videogame soundtracks means I've never heard a single Jane's Addiction song other than this one off the Forza Horizon 2 rock station. Anyway this thing rocks so hard I love it
Pretty, but also very dull and not something I'd go out of my way to listen to.
Very easy to see why Olivia Dean is as popular as she is right now. Her songwriting doesn't have the ironic detachment that's so in vogue nowadays but it also isn't too earnest and overzealous. It's somewhere in the middle and makes her come off as a more believable, human popstar.
Loving the liquid drum & bass production cues here and that build is pretty nice too. Just feel her singing style is clashing somewhat.
Rare to see a duet version of a song that wasn't a duet originally work so well.
Has no right to be this good on paper, but it's got some killer production and a pretty fun DaBaby performance. Still don't know about some of these lyrics. Does anybody actually find "meat" and "hole" to be particularly sexy slang terms? Just sounds unpleasant to me.
T.I. delivers a pretty lacklustre performance, leaving it up to Pharrell to carry hard with a pretty badass beat. Funny seeing T.I. in the top 40, anyhow.
Much like the Tame Impala album from last year, it's neat to see Harry Styles taking cues from the deeply underappreciated chillwave scene of the early 2010s, but his interpretation of it here is pretty listless and his style of singing doesn't really fit the production at all.
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