Minho Park

wow this cracked me open. fantastic folk/americana record. enough said.

This is really good. Lush horn/woodwind instrumentation really brings out the most in these tracks. Fleet foxy and stylistic muted production reminiscent of 70s Simon and Garfunkel.

Drink-a-cup-of-coffee-on-a-Sunday-morning-type listen.

Solid solid solid shoegaze that doesn’t reinvent the wheel, pays respect to those that came before, and makes you wanna melt into the soundscape.

Wonderfully self produced with absolute head banger singles. Flea is probably my favorite St. Vincent song of all time.

Front half hits so heavy while the back half is a little sleepy for my tastes, but an incredibly solid record nonetheless.

A beautiful, thoughtful, flute-forward record. The album is a journey - it picks you up softly with airy flutes and string runs and sets you down gently with spoken word and west african 4:3 polyrhythms. Subtle but impressive contributions ranging from Floating Points and Esperanza Spalding.

There is so much to appreciate here!

one moment thom croons sweet somethings about the tragic beauty of humankind then the next i'm getting blasted with high gain full octane overdriven guitar. more of this please.

i generally fuck with everything adrianne does. she's a special songwriter, one that i really admire in her ability to weave the personal with the universal. sometimes i listen to records and think, wow, i can really feel what you felt and see what you meant. no bullshit. straight to the source of wherever it came from. this is one of those records. sadness as a gift is a straight 5/5 for me.