Hello! Here's my list. As usual, I'm excited to spend the day checking out the albums on everyone's lists that I've missed.
01 Turnstile - Glow On
02 Julia Michaels - Not In Chronological Order
03 Tele Novella - Merlynn Belle
04 Foxing - Draw Down the Moon
05 Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place
06 Another Michael - New Music and Big Pop
07 Claud - Super Monster
08 Bernice - Eau De Bonjourno
09 The Armed - ULTRAPOP
10 Wet - Letter Blue
Taylor Swift was my favorite performance, and I'm not even that big of a Taylor fan. Plus her winning and letting Aaron Dessner talk first felt really nice. But yeah, I watched it all, and 4 hours is way too long. Most people should just watch a few performances on YouTube. I'm just a fool
Read this news on break, and my coworkers didn't understand why I was upset. "That's still a band?" Yes and now my hopes for a new album are crushed!
Anyways, I put on Human After All at work, because I had just put on Discovery last week, and I am here to report: Human After All fucking slaps, and is highly underrated!
I swear I'm not new here, my avatar just disappeared since the redesign and I can't seem to fix it. My name and pw works here, but not at gravatar or wordpress
Hey gang, if you watch concerts on YouTube, KEXP and Tiny Desk and such, then have I got one for you! It is the most high energy and sure to bring a smile to your face. Just premiered on YouTube, and you can watch it with your kids: https://youtu.be/55NtROroSi4
Ding Dong! I could have easily listed 25 or more, but I limited myself to 10 absolute favorites:
01 Haim - Women in Music pt. III
02 The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
03 Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
04 The Weeknd - After Hours
05 Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
06 Too Free - Love in High Demand
07 Trace Mountains - Lost In The Country
08 Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
09 Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline
10 Lady Gaga - Chromatica
And one last shameless plug for my band's new album, probably the best album I've ever made:
Astronaut Ice Cream - Blue
Hey I wanna thank Bloc for recommending Shy Boys in SUD. Of all the great albums that cam out Friday, Shy Boys is easily my favorite. So smart and fun.
I voted for Rain on Me. It captures the vibe of persevering through this messed up summer.
However, if you're looking through these comments for new pop bops, might I suggest this https://youtu.be/10lMYtKE39E
Lots of great albums out today, I hope you'll include Astronaut Ice Cream - Blue and give it a listen. You've probably seen me bug you about my synth-pop band in SUD before, but this album is different. I've been out of work for the last 4 months, and working on this album has been my life raft. I've come out the other side with the best sounding and greatest album I've ever made.
Here's the spotify link
https://open.spotify.com/album/7254XVgRXbUsV20DbXfUkb and its a name your price download on bandcamp https://astronauticecream.bandcamp.com/album/blue
Have a nice weekend everyone, don't click on the abuser comeback article on billboard, and actually, don't click on a billboard article ever again! Discrediting survivors for clicks is not something a repudiable music site would do, so I guess Billboard is not that
So I found some albums I really, really love from last week's Best Albums of 2020 So Far comment section; Salt Cathedral, Cold Beat, and most of all, Trace Mountains. I could see Trace Mountains being one of the albums I listen to most this summer. And, that thread got me to finally check out the new Destroyer, and it's fascinating and wonderful. Mid-year-listmas done me good!
So this week, I posted a comment on a "The Number Ones" post for the first time. I made what I thought was a simple point, and someone responded to me with a 1000 word reply dissecting my post. To which people replied "Bravo" and called him a great philosopher. What a weird, insular world TNOCS is. But they're happy so I guess that's all that matters.
Anyways here's my band's new music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjwoRHWKnA4
I've always loved Raphaelle's other band Blue Hawaii; their album Tenderness is one of my all time favorites. Despite it being perceived as maybe the electronic side-project, I've loved it more than Braids. Anyways this new album Shadow Offering is the first Braids album that has connected with me as much as Blue Hawaii, and it's shifted the balance between the two for me, and that's great.
This song is sad. Maybe the saddest, most defeated chorus lyric ever in a #1 song. The notion that "life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone" is sad, and not true, if you don't let it be. And the fact that this song is beloved by people who believe that notion, and stop seeking new music and listen to classic rock stations, makes it double sad. This song is not quite as bad as "Old Time Rock and Roll", the most poisonous pop song ever, but the defeatist attitude is the same. The thrill is not gone if you don't give up on it!
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