Nervous about this album, “I Don’t Here Anymore” is clunky, and doesn’t really approach anything on A Deeper Understanding. Hopefully the other songs are better, can’t really take much from this review, other than the reviewer has a tin ear.
Think I've seen the Strokes four or five times live, and I think this one was my favorite. Nothing beats being up close for a Strokes show and yelling out lyrics with other Strokes fans. The unbelievable songwriting really comes out live whether Julian is singing every last word or not. The new songs are all just great additions live(was happy that they stopped Ode to the Mets-as I think its one of the weakest new ones).Setlist choice as a whole pushed it over the top for me, band sounded great/ppl were into it/5 out of 5 stars
My main takeaway from this set was that the Los Ageless riff sounds really good live. And that she has a pretty thin setlist for as big as her reputation is. She could add Cruel to it to help, but still she just doesn’t have that many out and out bangers.
Interesting that Stereogum would partner would Shaky Knees as they’ve (intentionally imo) ignored it since it’s inception. Hopefully they don’t have anything to do with lineups or whatever else going forward.
Obviously not a great year for music-which makes sense bc 2020 was an all time year- but the Buck Meek and Faye Webster albums have to be up there in contention for album of the year.
Honestly scared for this- only because Heat Wave and Pristine are two perfect, iconic songs that I can't imagine anyone following, even the artist that created them.
Yves Tumor was obviously amazing, not surprising given how great the album and EP are. Thought Dehd and Faye Webster were some other artists who stood out, on shows that I caught on stream this weekend.
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