Reviews

Note to self: I don't like FJM and should stop trying to pretend I do.

All good? grooves deep. It’ll have you bobbing your head and tapping your toes. It can help with focus, spark creativity, or catalyze your next profound walk. It is quiet and chill and intense and beautiful and a joy to behold. All good? is a secret too good not to share.

Gorgeous warm ambient soundscapes. The recording is immaculate in a way that doesn't feel live particularly, almost in tension with the occasional cough / chair scrape from the crowd - the bursts of applause and moments where Frahm talks to the audience feeling like abrupt wake ups.

This album is awesome because the singing feels like Nina Simone but the music feels like Snoopy's band.

When I first heard it as a teen I felt disappointed because I really thought there were actual pet sounds on it.

Oh wow. So many bleeps. So many bloops. Some unts unts. Some ahhhhhhh. At least one womp. This is Aphex Twin.

Plataforma para hacer a Allie X famosa (y para que nos visite de gira en España) aquí.

Billie Eilish’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? may have been released some years ago, but it remains a landmark debut and a brilliant statement of individuality. There’s something captivating about how this album balances eerie minimalism with rich, bass-heavy production—an atmosphere that feels both intimate and vast. It’s clear why Billie Eilish earned so much Attention for her art: unlike many “stars” I struggle to relate to, her music is inventive, raw, and speaks on its own terms.

The moment I revisited the album with my new SONOS subwoofer, I was stunned. Tracks like bury a friend or you should see me in a crown reveal an entirely new depth with proper… More

Best album of Suede although it's a compilation of B sides

Ya know, when they bill an album as "Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre" I feel like they're setting expectations quite high. Nothing on this record meets those expectations, none of it stands up to their past work together, and very little of it stands out as something I'd go out of my way to listen to again.

It's not necessarily that these tracks are awful, but the production is dull and the rhymes don't feel vital in any way. Comes off as a very going through the motions sort of release, both from Snoop on the mic and Dre as a producer. They've both done far better before... in fact, the previous releases from both artists both stand out as… More

Arranca guay, con canciones sencillas y al grano, sin grandes artificios de producción ni nada que vaya más allá de composiciones bonitas.

Y el problema al final es ese, tras terminar la escucha no siento que haya destacado por nada, que ningún momento del disco me haya hecho "click" de ninguna manera.

No se puede decir que sea un mal disco, pero me resulta igual de estimulante que pisar descalzo el suelo de la cocina.

Some of the best black metal this year with some great riffs, as always.

If you have ever struggled to "get into" the Christmas spirt, I recommend getting this record on. It's nostalgic, perfectly imperfect and has a slight dose of melancholy - things that can encapsulate this time of year. There's an anti-commercialism tone, the whole mood encourages you to find meaningful connections with things that make you happy - whatever they are, that's the real gift of Christmas.

Honestly might be worse than vultures. Just soulless, heartless, and almost talentless if it wasn’t for the features (who may have hurt their careers for jumping on this).

they have girl talk on here?

revisting this record - its kind of insane how this album has the flow of the most coked up DJ in 2010... the way the songs just flow in and out of each other feel like im listening to a direct to recording jam/mix someone made for them and their friends to go pack a bowl and play some halo to... good vibes

Huele a Orxata, lleva xufa y es de color Orxata pero no sabe a Orxata. Desde lugares comunes con la propuesta de los primeros, Faixa lo lleva a nuevos y muy distintos paisajes. A veces, me siento como volviese a estar en una de las raves de los primeros dosmiles, en algún lugar perdido de l'Horta Nord y otras, el cant d'estil me remite a los pueblos de la zona sur del Pais Valencià. Increíble, como es capaz de captar todo estos matices, increíble como dialoga con el presente, el pasado y el futuro.

Para mi, primero fue Confusion is Sex y luego Spacemen 3 vino a dar forma al sonido de esa confusión.
Mismos referentes, misma tradición, nada que ver en el sonido.
Me rindo, a los pies de esta obra maestra tan superlativa como excelente.
Uno de los mejores, y más sugerentes, discos de cuantos he escuchado en 2024.

Por paradójico que resulte, este es el primer disco de The Cure que me ha enganchado y eso es algo emocionalmente potente.
Songs of a Lost World se ha metido en mi y ha tocado muchas cosas, ha movido otras muchas y me ha emocionado todas y cada una de las veces que lo he escuchado, que son muchas.
No es ya que se exprese de una forma clara, contundente y utilizando recursos que me llenan el espíritu, es que lo que dice, lo podría decir yo.
It's all gone.

Joderse la vida es lo que te queda después de dos carreras, tres másteres, dos años de Foster, un año de voluntariado en Ecuador, innumerables fiestas, borracheras, pollos, raves, amigos, idas, venidas, diásporas, crisis, mentiras, cagadas, etc.
Lo siento mucho Sorogoyen, pero estos cuatro chavales lo han pillado mucho mejor que tu.
Si no existiese Ramper, este seria el disco ibérico del año.

Las primeras veces que lo estuve escuchando, me pareció bastante vulgar. No vulgar prescindible, es Kim y su saber hacer es evidente. Pero si, poco interesante. No obstante, a medida que fueron pasando los días, el disco fue creciendo en mi recuerdo.
No voy a decir que es de lo mejor que he escuchado, pero si que es un ejercicio de clase, saber hacer y ganas de contar cosas.
Una muestra mas de elegancia, por parte de una de las voces más interesantes de las ultimas décadas.

París es una ciudad que a veces asociamos a la sofisticación y elegancia. Nils Frahm, durante su gira de presentación de Music for Animals, consiguió durante algo menos de una hora y media combinar su particular delicadeza con el instinto primario de una sala enloquecida imitando a diversos animales.

El resultado es otro gran directo del compositor ambiental alemán, en general menos juguetón que "Tripping with..." pero igualmente estimulante.

El post rock también puede tener raíces.

Año 2000 > La Vida Cañón

Humo internacional wins

Maybe Flying Lotus isn't a hot upstart anymore and his music has kind of lost the disruptive punch or the rougher edge it once had but has gained a lot of balance and polish. He has never sounded more in control to me, this ep shouldn't be overlooked.

Favorite track: Let Me Cook ft Dawn Richard

Hay momentos en los que uno debe poner el oído y dejar a un lado las ideas preconcebidas para reconocer las cosas, y este es uno de ellos: Carolina Durante se han marcado un discarral impresionante y punto.

Sin ser para nada fan de la banda, a la que siempre he catalogado como “típicamente madrileña” en el peor de los sentidos (el de creerse el ombligo de la escena independiente) me he acercado por insistencia a Elige tu Propia Aventura esperando encontrarme otra colección de canciones autorreferenciales con algún toque de humor puntual como suele ser marca de la casa.

Nada más lejos de la realidad, en este álbum los Carolina demuestran ya desde el primer corte, Joderse la Vida… More

I truly cannot get some of the melodies and solos out of my mind. Considering the brevity of the record, this had to hit from start to finish, and it truly did. The maturity of Mulatu Astatke, an epic Ethiopian jazz artist comes through strongly with the subtleties in this record, yet it doesn't come off sounding outdated at all. A truly great little jazz fusion record here that serves as a victory lap for Mulatu and the Hoodna Orchestra.

probably the funniest thing that's happened to me this year is when a coworker queued this up at karaoke and I said to him "wow, nice, I like this song" and he said "yeah, everyone does"

Absolutely one of those albums that makes me feel like the Elder Millennial that I am, but one that I can also 100% get behind.

80's music gets so much unfair stick for being cheesy when it's a combination of what was then cutting edge technology and cocaine fueled earnestness. Taking the first half of that and recontextualizing it into this 2020s era that's marked by gauzy, empty, lonely spaces is really interesting and good, IMO.

OK Computer is a timeless album. Whether you listen to it today, or you used to listen to it 10–20 years ago. That’s why I bought the OK Computer vinyl, as it’s timeless, and famously known worldwide.

This is a accurate representation of humanity in a single artistic masterpiece. And I am gladly not overexaggerating. Every lyric is very metaphorical, accompanied with Thom Yorke’s singing except Fitter Happier being a text-to-speech voice with a saddening tone.

Every song hold its place in this album, even the ones that resurfaced due to short lengthened videos online like No Surprises, famously known for its beginning melody and its chorus. Even the ones that aren’t heard worldwide like… More

Wanderlust is an incredibly lovely album-ass-album by Japanese math/emo band perfect piano lesson. It's wonderfully scrappy yet capable. This album is like a cat.

Would you like another album for your rotation when you're working on your village in Minecraft? This fits. Do you gotta go through a bunch of New Folders on your desktop? You could listen to this while you do that.

It's a really nice album.

This might be my favorite album this year?

Switches between intimate/quiet and epic/loud with incredible ease, walks that fine line that "emo" walks between earnest and cloying incredibly well, and they put on a hell of a live show.

Wish they'd stop opening for Tiktok famous bands that sound like what milquetoast Zoomers think "indie" music sounded like (e.g. MGMT but as the background music in a plaque psoriasis commercial) and headline their own shit because they'd set the world on fire (metaphorically).

Pues vamos con el fenómeno indie del año... :)

He de decir que accedí a su escucha con mucho escepticismo. Siempre que un disco capta la atención de todo el mundo, aunque venga desde la escena independiente, tengo mis reservas. Sin embargo, La Vida Cañón me pareció un single simpático por el que darle una oportunidad.

Y mi sorpresa máxima es cuando me encuentro con un disco bastante duro, más cercano al "café para muy cafeteros" que al pelotazo comercial que nos quieren vender. Me mola, me mola bastante, y más aún me mola imaginarme la cara de los que se lo hayan comprado después del tweet de la Rosalía al ponérselo en casa y encontrarse con esta puta movida.

Y… More

This has been on my 'highly anticipated' list all year, and now that it's fully arrive, I have it on repeat. Full stop. Leading up to the release, I was obsessed with 'Birth4000'. And I still am. And in 2022 I listened to 'Vocoder' over and over and over again.

This is not your typical Floating Points. It's less jazz, more club. As another reviewer noted, it "goes pretty fucking hard." But I'm welcoming this deviation from the norm, and I happily embrace it alongside 'Crush' and 'Elaenia'.

I deducted half a star because a) so many of the bangers on this were released in 2022 and 2023; b) idk that the 'club mix' added much to Vocoder; and c)… More

I just love her so much. Endlessness feels like a natural evolution of her work on space 1.8, here there's just a bit more to dig into. More lush orchestration, more jazzy drumming, more virtuoso performances, a whole universe of different influences somehow made to fit inside the grooves of a single record.

The synth arpeggios bubbling throughout are a personal standout for me but everything sounds great here. Space 1.8 sounded more hazy and ambient and was the perfect soundtrack for the period of my life when I stumbled into it, I hope this accompanies me through this new season as well.

Jason Molina reincarnated. Also, Stephen Malkmus and Neil Young must be major influences. The new poster boy of indierock. What's not to like?

Almost as good as Boat Songs.

Just listening to One last dance over and over again. Her voice hit me hard on this one.

Released in 1982 when I was a junior in high school, Nebraska was Bruce Springsteen's follow-up to The River, a double album he recorded with the E Street Band. Nebraska on the other hand was recorded in his basement on a four-track recording machine and it features nobody but the Boss himself. I have owned this recording on LP, cassette, CD and audio download over the past 42 years. You can listen to it here.

I used to listen to it on repeat when driving north on Interstate 95 to see my children, several states away, after their Mom and I split up. The songs tell stories and some, like Highway Patrolman, convey an entire movie's worth of details in… More

No estaba nada convencido. En general, la carrera en solitario de Jack White me parece algo irregular y bastante aburrida. No mala, el talento es evidente, pero si poco estimulante.

Siempre los mismos recursos, siempre la misma composición, siempre igual.

Sin embargo, no en No Name. Aquí, está macarra, garagero, algo hard rock, algo blues, y una pizca punk, se le nota cómodo y a gusto en su piel. No es que cuente mucho, pero al menos no pretende convencerte de que es un cantautor.

Nada como resistirse y que te convenzan a golpe de guitarrazos. Me ha gustado bastante.

Casi con toda seguridad, el mejor disco de 2024.

Y lo dice alguien que, hasta Only God Was Above Us, consideraba que Vampire Weekend era una más de las mediocridades de los primeros 2010s.

Menos mal que siempre estoy dispuesto a revisar mis convicciones, porque me hubiese fastidiado mucho encontrarme semejante joya dentro de x años y pensar: como pude ser tan tonto.

Post-punk con cosas. Un disco decente que no se merece el hype por mucho que sean la respuesta indie al rollo madrileño castizo cetangano. Muy pesados.

Felt like floating through a semi-uncomfortable dream.