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still corners can sound a bit formulaic at times, but damn they just keep sounding better with each record. i listen to salt on my lonely dark bicycle rides home so that helps. nothing like gliding through the empty city with deseo playing
You name it, and it does that
good shit, top to bottom
i mean it's just tom's edgy aoty so i dont put too much weight into it and I don't have an ear for hip hop anyway what i find frustrating is ari's record; i thought i had developed a good enough ear for pop music but i just find sweetener so bland - and i really wanted to like it cause she recorded 'problem'and it just fucking bops til the end of the universe
and well there's not much left, so the other 3 records in my 10 are Low, Tirzah and Beach House. i shat on 2018 earlier but it actually turned out to be a pretty good year
This guy's been to the P A R T Y O F T H E Y E A R
They're not even playing their instruments the 'right' way and there's no discernable interplay between the sounds - it's clearly meant to not sound pleasant At any rate don't let that detract you from seeing her live. She's got a 6 member band going and the new tubes sound great, particularly chaitius. I went with someone who likes Tash Sultana and she enjoyed it, so it's definitely not as challenging as those dreaded 4 minutes. I loved it
do you even schoenberg bro jk those are also my least favorite 4 mins on the record; maybe if it sounded a bit dronier i’d like it better? at any rate i find disliking something on a record to be of value to me. like what was she thinking? how does this fit into what she’s trying to say? and so on and so on
All I want for Christmas is Ryan's 10000 words essay on Aviary
My faves not on this list: 1. Julia Holter - Aviary 2. Amen Dunes - Freedom 3. serpentwithfeet - soil 4. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears 5. Mr Twin Sister - Salt 6. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden 7. Ought - Room Inside a Room (my top 10 cut-off) 8. Leon Vynehall - Nothing is Still 9. Emma Louise - Lilac Everything 10. Still Corners - Slow Air 11. Anna Calvi - Hunter 12. Laura Gibson - Goners 13. Anenon -Tongue 14. Goat Girl - Goat Girl 15. Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days 16. Hinds - I Don't Run 17. Son of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile 18. Marisa Anderson - Cloud Corner 19. Kate NV - для FOR 20. Frankie Cosmos - Vessel aviary aotl
can't wait til i get a free afternoon to read this jk, definitely my most played record this year, it's really just great songs after great songs. believe is, of course, something else, filling that space somewhere between red house painters and the war on drugs. easily of the finest distinctly american rock tracks i've ever heard
this band got basslines for days
what the hell? every time you have 2 entities that create something, anything, as a business, there are going to be nda's involved. hell, i'm an engineer and no 2 companies would work together if there wasn't some kind of agreement that would prevent them from stealing ideas off each other, and frankly i wouldn't have it any other way. it makes cooperation not just easier, but simply possible
fuck sake man, didn't have to upstage me this much
well I was being sarcastic, I think pitchfork's reviewers brains are better at telling them what to like than I could ever be. nor do i consider it pathetic if someone 'changes' their mind and now disagrees with me
i'd also like to mention the men's leave home album, since no one else has
regardless of gender, i don't think they'd give it to a reissue. teens of denial was pretty low in 2016 anyway
i saw this guy last week and good god, it was the best show i've seen all year
I like some light reading after wanking, don't judge me okay? okay
that didn't make much sense mate, you might wanna have another go at it
Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
well she doesn't have any upcoming dates, so i don't know which robyn you're supposed to be seeing
so what exactly is their lineup now? they've played a bunch of live shows and i still haven't found any info; their wiki page still states the usual 4 members plus a saxophonist. was that the only change? i really couldn't find anything about it anywhere song is stellar as always
tirzah more than deserves a mention, but there's plenty of people i've never heard of so thanks for the heads up mates
i mean for something with aviary's scope and grandeur i don't even care where it's gonna place, just the fact it exists is an achievement itself. i heard it first thing yesterday, and when i was done i thought 'what the fuck do i follow this up with?', and i just had to play it again. avant-garde, jazz, classical, krautrock, fuck yes please. i would tentatively compare it to the seer, mbdtf and to a lesser extent utopia, but still grander than any of them. i mean, i think the minimum would be to at least mention her somewhere in the site, but i guess not that many people consider holter one of the goats like me
oh right, I had a mental note to pay more attention to puns but it keep slipping my mind lul
wonder who julia holter pissed off to not get any press around here either way, record is a world within the world and a masterwork
why can't i see the player fam, is it because i'm dirty euro trash?
do yourself a favor and give factory flaws another spin man
that's a shame, they were great and putting out some really danceable indie bangers, ultramarine particularly is just jams front to back
this man's a banjo wizard and you can't convince me otherwise