"make him eat me out while I watch anime" is a boring re-write of one of my favorite Lil Kim lines: "got buffoons eating my pussy while i watch cartoons"
this is actually a really dope song, Creed sings it karaoke during one of the Xmas parties, right in that psych/power-pop sweet spot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33r0_DeuHX4
the new Princess Nokia was pretty disappointing, i had high hopes for her after loving 1992 Deluxe, but the whole Chance the Rapper meets Hot Topic thing is just... nah.
my faves that aren't on this list are all metal:
Kvelertak- Splid
Thy Catafalque- Naiv
Igorrr- Spirituality and Distortion
Mare Cognitum- Wanderers (the Spectral Lore songs are good too, but the MC songs are amazing)
Oranssi Pazuzu- Mestarin Kynsi
Ulcerate- Stare Into Death and Be Still
Esoctrilihum- Eternity of Shaog
Antichrist Demoncore- Satan is King
Rotting Kingdom- A Deeper Shade of Sorrow
it's been a beautiful year for ugly music
(oh, and Dogleg, wtf)
seriously. everyone who thinks "defund the police" is too scary and alienating, but "cut police budgets" will win the hearts and minds of moderates & conservatives is delusional.
prison abolition scholars and advocates will readily admit that society will still need some sort of solution for extreme cases like pedophiles, serial killers, and other people who are dangerous to the public. it's just that this solution would ideally look nothing like nothing like the prison system. police abolition is similar. it's not literally "replace every cop with a social worker and call it a job well done". we would still need a trained task force to deal with violent crimes. but ideally this would look and act nothing like the current police force.
maybe read some articles, scholarly papers, and/or books about police abolition instead of just saying the idea makes no sense based on zero research?
no one is saying we should send social workers to deal with burglaries? people are saying we should send social workers instead of police in situations where they would actually be more useful.
"Defund the Police" is just one slogan of many. At yesterday's protest, I saw signs that said Defund/Abolish the Police, but I also saw signs that said Police Reform Now, End Qualified Immunity, Repeal 50-A, Cut Police Budgets, Disband Police Unions, and more. Defund the Police is not the "official" slogan of BLM by any means. Every police department is different and will need to respond to this moment in their own way. Some, like Minneapolis, will have to be dismantled completely. For the NYPD that kind of talk is probably a non-starter, but we'll push it as far as we can. It's good just to get ideas like police abolition and prison abolition out into the mainstream. Again, we need to stop worrying about alienating people with our craaaazy ideas, and just start fighting for what we want where we can.
i've had both my apartment and my office broken into and robbed. both times we called the police, and both times NYPD have not only been 100% useless, but straight up admitted that they have no way of knowing who the thief is or how to catch him. in the office situation, i showed them VIDEO FOOTAGE from our security cameras of the thief in action, and asked them if they could use the footage to identify a suspect. they said "this isn't CSI." they literally just came to do paperwork and leave. i will never call the police again in my life.
we shouldn't worry about what conservatives and centrists are going to think, they're going to twist our words and try and fuck us regardless, so we might as well demand what we actually want. as recently as the Colin Kap protests, BLM was still a highly controversial sentiment. now corporations are scrambling to show their support. obviously corporate sympathies don't really mean shit, but they are a useful arbiter of public opinion. Medicare for All would have been unthinkable 4 years ago, now it's a relatively mainstream Democratic policy plank. you can make Americans get on board with all sorts of radical ideas if you just repeat them enough times.
the GOP is going to ratfuck any left-leaning proposals no matter what. this is precisely why starting with the most extreme version of what you want is the way to go.
because you always start with your most radical demand first, then slowly scale it back as you begin to compromise. it's basic negotiation tactics. if you start with "DEFUND THE POLICE" and they say "No that's too far", well suddenly "How about cutting the budget?" doesn't sound so bad.
i think when someone on Stereogum writes "sound that defined the summer", there's an obvious implied "for indie fans". summer 2009 was my college graduation year, and Neon Indian and Washed Out were INESCAPABLE at college-kid parties in Brooklyn that summer. Soft Black, being from Brooklyn themselves, were literally inescapable- if you went to enough art school hipster parties, you were guaranteed to run into them eventually.
a scene doesn't have to be popular on a mainstream level to be influential. look at shoegaze in the late 80s/ early 90s. barely anyone bought those records at the time, it was a small UK scene for artsy pedal nerds. but those records had a massive impact on all the rock music that came afterwards.
let's wait for any actual evidence that this is the case. the official word is always that "outside instigators" did all the violence and looting, not locals, and it's almost always complete BS. it's a deliberate tactic to defuse movements and turn them against themselves.
Esoctrilihum really lives up to its cosmic goblin album art, doesn't it? easily his best album to date. i also enjoyed the new Akolyth for some raw, no frills black metal.
and now here, have some cheese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYGTpQsU_GA
if you're looking for some feral anarchist grindcore, look no further than the new Antichrist Demoncore album, Satan is King. it's not anything new really, but they pack a lot of fun ideas into 23 minutes.
yeah that Thy Catafalque is one of my faves of the year for sure! i'm a big sucker for genre-defying stuff. really glad you got into it! i'll forever rep weird metal.
when this album came out, i was one year after finishing college and working minimum wage at a liquor store in Jersey City while living in Brooklyn and drinking myself into a blackout every night, which culminated in my apartment burning down, me almost dying, then going to live back home for a while. so yeah, this album felt very relatable at the time! it's funny because this actually feels like the least morose National album overall but it's definitely the one most tied to a dark time in my life. seeing them at Radio City on this tour was magical, you could feel the whole crowd get goosebumps during the "waiting for Radio City to sink" part.
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