This is genuinely my favorite album of all time. It might be the only one I can rate 100/100.
I used to listen to music only to fill in the blank spaces. Instead of sitting with silence, I would put on some random spotify shuffle and just not really thing about it. And granted, I still do that today ; but this album, genuinely, opened my mind to a brand new way of considering music.
I first listened to "Long Season". It blew my mind. I had no idea you could make this music this ... read more
"Love never fails
But where there are prophecies, they will cease
where there are tongues, they will be stilled
where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
Twin Fantasy is the story of a fantasy shared and mirrored by two brothers who find comfort in themselves. And it is in that that Twin Fantasy shines - by the way it can capture at the same time the heights and terrifying reassurance of codependent relationships (I’m safe with "my boy", "you and I ... read more
Bodies, sex, relationships, love ; they are all fucking disgusting!!!!! They're filled with strange smells, with repulsive fluids that get everywhere, they create sickening feelings of intense violence when disappointment arises and intense feelings of pleasure and satisfaction when they climax, they have naked bodies mixing together, broken windows, torn-down beds, stained carpets, pain, pleasure and love. And yet despite it all it feels so fucking worth it every time.
This is what this ... read more
Ants From Up There takes a somewhat mundane, while painful, subject matter - a long-distance relationship breaking down - and turns every emotion, every nook and cranny of the breakup into a melodramatic journey of beauty, yearning, depression and hope. It takes every part of the beauty of a relationship - the joy of living it, the catastrophe of it breaking down, the yearning for a time no longer here - and turns it to 11, while never falling into a corny sob-story of some guy that didn't ... read more