I can reconsider my opinion on that Westerman album. Love the singles, but I don't like the album at all.
And I agree on Car Seat Headrest. I was expecting something different... but not different on quality. I really try on it, because the last 3 albums were great, and I still listen "Can't Cool Me Down". Making-the-whatever-its-name-is sounds like the sophomore effort of a 90's alternative rock band, but in the worst way.
Apple, Genius and Porridge so high? Absolutely right
Sumney so low? Let me process that.
Grimes and 1975 here? Meh
Westerman here and Pimienta, Pazuzu, Infant Island and R.A.P. fucking Ferreira out? WRONG
As it says in AAL review, “If You Can’t Do It Good, Do It Hard" is THE mantra of 2020. That song always returns to my playlist.
You are not the only one. To me, it's just too much, and at the same time so empty. And the singing! Man, we all know Lady Gaga really sings, she doesn't need the screaming for nothing. At the same time, A Star is Born is a good movie and she can really act here.
I also believe Assume Form is his more "human" album, it's like he just wanted to make some happy and "danceable" music. And I am fine with that.
But truth is my favourite JB album is The Colour in Anything. I never enjoyed a James Blake like I still enjoy that one. Beautiful, tormentous, desperate music.
"You're Too Precious" is a good single. He used to release good singles.
"He took the man-made technology that had always soundtracked his life and used it to create music that doesn’t just sound of the earth, but of some ancient version of nature we could never quite touch."
Mr. Leas, that was amazing and totally TRUE.
"Hot Knife" is a song I can't forget, I find myself singing it. And this time I wasn't expecting to listen this sonic explosion, that goes beyond and far away. Amazing album.
As a colombian, it keeps being really nice to watch a colombian artist gain all this recognition and difussion.
Compared to La Papessa, Miss Colombia is much more colombian in its sound and poetry. Very good.
Thank you for bringing back the Tamperer reference. I love that song (everytime I remember how amazing is "Can YouFeel It" and mandatorily I play it, I always get to "Feel It"), but I never thought I would find a mention in Stereogum.
"Bathwater" reminds me a lot of good parties in my college's first years, and I still find it an amazing song. Besides that, I can't relate to Return of Saturn too much. I always thought it had some good songs, but it's not a No Doubt album that I want to listen.
Everytime I think in Blondie, I immediatly think in Clem Burke's drumming. This and Debbie Harry's performance are teh Blondie's stamp. And the drumming in "Dreaming" is simply the soul of that song.
I think I'm part of a very small group of human beings who think that the Fun Boy Three version is better than the original one (and I love the original). In fact, the Fun Boy Three version is one of my favorite songs ever, my perfect mental soundtrack when I started to go to electro and house parties, the shy guy defining a sexual orientation on the night life, and tried to keep eye contact with someone who I like that night.
Im still waiting that the first Fuck Buttons album be available at streaming services. I remember it as something special.
Weatherall's Work as producer and remixer is outstanding. What am I saying? He produced Tarot Sport! That's genius! RIP, man.
Bix, "Lost in Music" is everything. I discovered it some months ago, and there are days it gives me everything I need from disco music. Seconds go by as you listen to it, and that thing never stops growing, even when the song is ending.
OH.
MY.
GOD.
I didn't remember "Addictive", but in 2002 everytime I listened to that song, I stayed perplexed until it stopped. DJ Quik is simply one of the best.
I was so happy to see this column was back, until I read Tiny Mixtapes is going on hiatus. That site was one of the most amazing fountains of experimental music, and its music reviews and essays are so special in its own way. They work on concepts so powerful about music based on our society, nowadays communication and the way we perceive our bodies.
Now I'm afraid of losing Stereogum someday. I've been reading your essays, reviews and news for years. I just wish you, guys, keep doing the amazing job you've been doing for years, because some of us consider this virtual space important in our lives. We thank you now, and will thank you forever.
"Wishes" is one of the songs I've been humming for years, so I think it's a good choice for song of the decade. Well, I've been humming many Beach House songs!!!
I find ADU incredible in its own particular way, but LITD is the classic one to me, the one that you can enjoy many more times.
Play by Play is one of the most incredible singles of the decade and one of the most underrated. It's fucking genius!
"Stolen Dog" has been my number one song for several weeks, and I didn't know Burial was going to release this compilation. Some of the tracks here are simply amazing, and my true entry to Burial's music (sorry, I like Untrue, but not that much)
Oh my God! I thought we would not get a 10th Anniversary piece for Tarot Sport. I would accept that fact and keep on loving this album in secret. And here I am trying to find words to describe everything or something Tarot Sport is to me and my musical knowledge.
I can be alone in this, but Tarot Sport is the best 2009 album by a mile. Everything here is so well done and so different to everything else. Listening to all the 7 tracks, you can imagine Fuck Buttons enjoying their work, smiling as they recorded. Tarot Sport is still an album that makes me happy, nervous, hysterical and ecstatic. This is music that really makes me feel complete in my imperfection.
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