As a Warriors fan, I feel it my duty to point out that the point of small ball is to actually play up-tempo basketball focused on a highly complex and moving offense that more often than not catches the defense off guard and causes breakdowns in rotations. More 100 gecs than Clairo.
I remember having this exact experience with Beach House, of all bands. First time listening to Teen Dream I was like "this is too weird". Now it seems practically conventional.
I agree with both of you which makes me nervous for the album that it's not on this list because reviewers usually get the albums months in advance and if they're already trying to lower expectations... Still want to believe though
Re-read that PE of Uncanny Valley after reading this, and Chris compares that album to a late-era Simpsons season. In 2013. Damn that show needs to be put out to pasture.
Snoop Dogg is only 50??? I'm 29 and I've heard his music since I was a young kid, and he already had a pretty full discography at that point. For some reason I always pictured he was like in his early 60's by now.
Codes and Keys's reception reminded me a lot of Reflektor's reception: whether you liked the album or not, everyone agreed it was a sign that the band was running out of steam. I always listened to I Will Possess Your Heart as an intentionally unsettling song where you're supposed to be more afraid for the possessed than sympathetic to the possessor, but I could be off base.
Also, side note, in the wake of all that controversy over Pitchfork reevaluations: Reflektor got a 9.2 lmao.
I don't know how the general public feels about Narrow Stairs these days, but the run of Photo Album to Narrow Stairs, for me, is a hell of a run. Those were the soundtrack of middle/high school for me, takes me back to a very specific place and time.
The Civilian era was one of the greatest eras a band had in the 2010's and it's insane this isn't getting more attention. This is gonna be insanely good.
Wow looks like she's been reading The Palmer Hotel, a collection of spooky short stories set over a century at a downtown hotel. $20. Venmo: Rick-Paulas, PayPal: RickPaulas@gmail, CashApp: $RickPaulas.
There was a man named Joe Howse (I believe it was Joe) once who refused to listen to any Beach House singles from... Bloom? Depression Cherry? until he got his vinyl copy and sparked a whole discussion about whether you should listen to the singles or just go into an album blind. There was also a pun involving Beach Howse. That's all I remember.
The Foxygen rescore makes sense if you remember what Pitchfork was doing for their career at the time. EVERYTHING on that site for a month or two was hyping the shit outta that record. I remember feeling like I would have been summarily executed by firing squad if they had a comment section because I wasn't really into that record.
They did the same thing with that second Passion Pit record but I liked that one more so I'm okay with it being left off.
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That song ain't dour, Brohan. And this cover is not good. The tempo is off, and Clarkson definitely does NOT "sing the living hell out of it." What were you listening to?
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