Car Seat Headrest's most acclaimed body of work is an album about loneliness, yet about the desire of love. It’s about knowing of one’s right of being happy, yet the inevitability of feeling empty. It's about wanting to go through the good parts of being human, yet despising the dreadfulness that comes with it. It’s ambiguous on whether the narrator is talking about memories or desires. It is an album built on the coexistence of deeply metaphorical and referential lyrics and ... read more
although not as strong and memorable as its precedent, 10,000 gecs is another playful and insanely creative collage of clever sounds and childish lyrics by the most unserious gen-z duo out there.
(i really dig the random post-punk guitar moment in one million dollars it fills me with inexplicable happiness.)
Unapologetically fun and sensual, with hints of a provocative Janelle, «The Age of Pleasure» is as groovy and warm as an evening by the beach paired with cheap sangria and a joint - summer doesn’t get much better than this.
Its songs blend into each other effortlessly and unpretentiously, as if mimicking a slow sunset that starts unexpectedly but keeps on going until the music stops.
Monáe’s 4th studio album may not be as epic and monumental as her previous ... read more
electronic music innovator Oval’s most recent project is an unsettling and hypnotic, yet weirdly comforting and visceral piece of lush electroacoustic ambient landscapes. paired with unintelligible and cryptic, skin-crawling, yet tingly, whispers reminiscent of a nymph’s, the rawness of the electroacoustic takes up the stage and strikes the listener as something unexplainably sublime.
(i’ll be reviewing björks’ discography on the days coming up to the release of fossora. but until then i’ll just say this is the only album ever)