just really pretty c:
Much like Pink Moon, I get the feeling that this is one of those few albums that's going to be with me throughout the majority of my life. Definitely going to give this another listen soon, but yeah, it's really sweet I love it a lot. More in depth review hopefully coming soon.

Y'know what I'm just gonna say it.. it's her second best! Now that I've gotten your attention I'm going to attempt to put into words what's so special about this near-masterpiece, and why I think that it deserves more appreciation than it gets. Let's start with the obvious, the songwriting here is fucking outstanding. Joanna Newsom was really not an artist that needed to prove herself any further as a brilliant songwriter to me but she just keeps blowing me away with every release of hers! She ... read more

While I have found it significantly harder to connect with instrumental works on a more personal level throughout my life, for whatever reason I see a lot of myself in this album. The piano work here is so effortlessly beautiful that it takes my breath away and the violin just creates such a mesmerizing undertone to the piano. Everything about this piece just feels so emotive and purposeful, and despite its bare instrumental lineup, I was engaged throughout the whole thing.

Each song felt more like an extended musical motif than actual songs with structures and proper beginnings and ends. Also, I like the girl on the front cover she's pretty.

I'm New Here is a very vulnerable and honest album. On here, Gil Scott-Heron talks about many different subjects relating to his life, his upbringing, and his inevitable death. The songwriting here is some of the best I've heard in a while, and Gil's voice, while it will probably be off-putting to many, just gave everything he said so much more weight and power to me. He sounded like a man who'd really lived a full life, he sounds wise and full of experience. While I do think that ... read more

Introspective, cold, and haunting, this is a piece of music that proves that sometimes, in rare instances, less is more. I'd equate the feeling I get from this album to the feeling one gets from looking at really creepy, old, black and white photographs. What's perhaps most uncomfortable and unnerving about them is the sense of mystery that comes along with it, so often now we as people are used to having some sort of context attached to these photos, videos, etc. That's what this album feels ... read more

Despite only being choir music, Spem in Alium feels a lot bigger than that, a lot grander. There are times where the singing here feels less like a bunch of people all singing in unison, and more like a divine light of some sort, slowly coming down from the heavens to grace our mortal realm. With that being said, simply having an album filled with church choirs is not enough to make an album perfect to me, however, when you manage to make an album with just choir feel this grand, vivid, and ... read more

Every second of this desolate masterpiece is hypnotizing, feeling at times like the last song you sing to yourself before the world itself comes to a surprisingly silent end. It's mysterious, dark, depressing, but nevertheless thoroughly engaging and, in its own unique way, kinda beautiful.

Definitely one of the prettier albums that I've heard in quite some time. Instrumentally, this thing is just wonderful. This record is super diverse and everything here comes together so perfectly - this is an album that really does push the genre of folk to its limits and I really appreciate that. I'd almost say musically this reminds me a lot of Joanna Newsom's Ys, minus all the dramatic elements of that record. Both are albums that create very beautiful worlds that I wouldn't mind getting ... read more

Beautiful. Equal parts transcendent and calming, this music is a journey of the heart, and a journey of the soul.

Very expressive playing, and it all becomes increasingly more impressive once you learn that all the instruments being played on here were performed by Braxton himself.

I'm thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks, it lingers, it dominates. There's not much I can do about it, trust me. It doesn't go away. It's there whether I like it or not. It's there when I eat, when I go to bed. It's there when I sleep, when I wake up. It's always there. Always. I haven't been thinking about it for long. The idea is new. But it feels old at the same time. When did it start? What if this thought wasn't conceived by me, but planted in my mind, ... read more

i heard 20 seconds of little too close thanks to spotify shuffle and it reminded me so much of worlds that i had to drop everything and listen to this right away
Gotta say, it's very good! The vocals are pretty horrendous on a lot of these cuts, but the synth work and production reminds me a lot of Worlds. While the influence of that record is very prevalent here, it's nevertheless enjoyable and fun.

78->89
holy shit

Sometimes I wish I could disappear. Not literally disappear, in the sense that I stop existing or something, although there are days where that sounds preferable, but rather to disappear from here. From the internet, from the world, to cut out everyone else in my life and just be completely alone. I'm going on a vacation tomorrow. I should be excited, but I'm not. Not at all. For the past two years or so I've felt stuck in the same loop of doing the same basic things day after day, and the ... read more

fitting album cover.... because this album puts me TO SLEEP!!!!!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
i am a very serious music critic

i remember loving this album when i first heard it but i've hardly been able to listen to it since because it took me 3 months just to stop listening to running up that hill

Ok, so... I'm going to see Ichiko Aoba live in October. I don't know how I've managed to make it this long without ever saying this, but yes, I'm seeing her in October, and I'm beyond excited. With that being said, it's been a while since I've revisited her discography and also I want an excuse to listen to her more often soooo I'm going to be revisiting all her albums! In order! Again! So while I want to make it evidently clear that I love this woman and her music to death it's at this point ... read more

Songs Of Leonard Cohen is a debut so soothing, so comforting and life-affirming that I personally find it to be an essential record in my collection and one that everyone should hear at least once. Cohen's voice is one so warm and calming and the inclusion of slightly more rustic instrumentation makes for a sound that I think works incredibly well. Super pretty album, highly recommend.

A cold and icy environment, void of most color. I don't know how I got here, or where I am, I just woke up here.
That's how I felt during the first few opening minutes of the title track, The Eraser, and it's a feeling that permeates throughout most of this album. Showcasing little more than loops, heavy electronic influence, and Yorke's own vocals, the atmosphere of this entire record is a rather lonely and isolated one, like being alone in the sea, no land around for miles. While the more ... read more