Reviews

MADRE MIA CHEEEECO!
Cuchillos y palos contra un banco de la calle.

100% CERTIFICATED PURO DE OLIVA

?? actually flawless album. the odd thing is that i've listened to it [jumps to last.fm] uhhh literally at least 90 times before 2016, so then definitely over 100 times since then. and i have never really thought of it as one of my "favorite albums" if that topic comes up! or even had strong feelings or opinions about it beyond "i like it :)"

but this monday i put it on, and all the joy and grief of it hit me at once. it's so gentle and humorous and pained, and never, ever gives in to cynicism. which is so important to me!! it's like… dark earnest. an album for loss and letting go and not simply going through it… More

I cant stop listening to this album, literally. The casette tape is stuck in the player and MJ Lenderman keeps threatening to throw me in the himbo dome if i turn it off.

As a midwesterner and a Jason Molina obsessive I think the comparisons are maybe a little much (I'm sure he's an influence! They're just very different writers) but I like the record and I'm glad to finally check him out after enjoying his contributions on that latest Waxahatchee album. Favorite track on my first listen: Wristwatch

I guess they got too bored in retirement… and I’m okay with the comeback. There’s nothing too unexpected here, but you get some refreshing Dr. Dog sounds. Shoutout to “Lost Ones” and “Handyman”, which I think bookend the album well. Unfortunately, there’s a bit of a lull in the middle, but I’m satisfied given I was ready for no more Dr. Dog.

hi ha certa bellesa en veure guanyar als mateixos de sempre després d'una mala temporada. notar com malgrat el temps que ha passat mantenen la forma i quan s'ho proposen poden noquejar a qualsevol rival que es pose per davant. tornar a treure-li mitja volta d'avantatge al segon cotxe i damunt, pavonar-se traient el dit pel monoplaça. vampire weekend podrien entrar dins d'aquest catàleg de guanyadors genials amb valls per pura "gossera", i "only god was above us" és un cim tan alt en tots els aspectes que fins i tot mirar cap a baix pot fer por. meta-música per totes bandes, tristor burgesa i arreglaments per dedicar-los un llibre sencer. el somriure de qui ho ha guanyat tot i… More

Putting my daughters to sleep since 2020.

I owe you a lot, Max

I was never as "into" Grizzly Bear as some of my contemporaries but if you weren't around the "indie rock scene" in 2009 you should understand that their first two albums were massive; this one got a 9.0 and a "Best New Music" designation from Pitchfork, undoubtedly the American tastemaker of the moment

Anyway at some point after I got my first iPhone I was putting some work into setting up custom ringtones which you did by creating m4a files, renaming them to 'm4r', importing them into iTunes, then (via a USB-to-30-pin-adapter cable) sending them to the phone. I chose the opening 30 seconds of "Two Weeks" as one of those and it became my morning alarm sound. It… More

igual me pegue un tir al cul si torne a escoltar alguna vegada més açò

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.

in high school i downloaded a MIDI file of the Steel Samurai theme and somehow got it onto my flip phone, which did not have any of those fancy things such as an "SD card" or "USB" or even a "web browser", which means i like. somehow MMS'd it from a computer to my phone??? all i remember is it was difficult. those were the days huh!!!

i also did this with the intro of Kefka's Theme for my text ringtone. yes that is a different video game. yes even just the intro is way too long for a text ringtone. no i did not use it for long.

Un disco demasiado sofisticado para ser o suficientemente mamarracho e demasiado mamarracho para ser o suficientemente sofisticado. Nin arre nin xo, nin moito nin pouco.

As ideas interesantes -que non son poucas- quedan enterradas nunha duración excesiva e nun remexido de experimentos que, para o meu gusto, pecan de pretenciosos e me distancian bastante do que si me atrae.

Contento con que cheguen a esa fina capa de música que non-é-mainstream-pero-case cousas diferentes, pero aínda non atopei os motivos para que este disco levantara tanta expectación. Pode que nuns anos volva e me decate de que simplemente era cousa da miña xordeira, pero non ten moita traza de momento

These 21 Minutes have a 8/8 hit ratio. This is so much fun.

Probably my most re-visited album of 2022 (an excellent year in music).

If you love Lenderman but want even more Jason Molina out of your slacker-infused Americana, this is your guy.

Favs: "Come and Change My Body", "Tower".

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.

Narrowing Type has been on my radar for I want to say at least 2 years now and I for some reason haven’t given it a full listen until now. And boy what was I doing NOT listening to this. This is just so beautiful and ethereal from front to back such an amazing record and one I will be revisiting for a long time.

Favorite Tracks: Philadelphia, Key Studies, Median (I & II)

have you ever read something that articulates a part of yourself so uncannily that the experience of reading it has the same phenomenal quality as a thought just occurring? that is the closest thing i can think of to describe how i relate to this song. it accords too perfectly.

if you know of other music that evokes precisely this vibe you are legally obligated to tell me.

me: brat is surely aoty, no competition.

mj lenderman:

Relentlessly heavy, but not just front to back slam and beatdown. The hip-hop elements and experimentation makes this stand out.

I’m writing this review as I hear the track 5 of the album. I don’t need to hear the rest to say that this album is going to be on repeat for the rest of the year. If Space 1.8 was a masterpiece then this feels beyond it. I don’t have words for that yet.

dudes rock

Extremely blissed out ambient pulses of life. Perhaps more approachable than the more tonally ambient leaning 'scapes of Space 1.8. With tracks veering more towards jazz than compositional soundscapes, a very lovely step into Sinephro's work.

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

I have no idea why this blew up. It’s fine – good, even.

But that part in "Image" where the distorted and heavily clipped bass comes in for the last chorus is one of my favorite moments of 2024.

Mi disco favorito de Lag. Me lo descargué en un larguísimo proceso en los albores de internet en una aplicación que acababa de salir que se llamaba Napster. Iba canción a canción, conectandome a ratos cada día y hasta que se descargaba una nueva tenía tiempo de sobra para saborear la última. Me reventó la cabeza, cambió la forma que tenía de entender la música para siempre e hizo que persiguiera a Lagwagon por todo el continente en cuanto alcancé la mayoría de edad. Un milagro, qué más voy a decir.

Album full of heavy hitting bangers, fun and in your face lyrics, amazing production and a few mellow but good tracks as well, showing a new side of yeat. Also a couple of tracks that miss the mark, such as yeat whispering his way through a beat on shhhh etc.

Still, this record in many ways shows the range and versitility that yeat has as an artist, suprising everyone including myself after yeats long run with monotone and unintelligible rage/hypertrap (which was pretty boring tbh).

Yeat does a total 180 on this with his crazy ad-libs and excellent beat choices, even featuring himself as a guest feature in a couple of tracks (Luh Geeky and Kranky kranky are actually… More

Vi el otro día como DCFC se tocaban esto enterito por el 20 aniversario después de siglos sin escucharlo y todo muy bien. Eso sí, casi lloro con Transatlanticism (Como siempre) hasta que me entró la risa porque me di cuenta que el final es un poco Coldplay.

Beautiful Indie-Pop-Rock from The Pinder Brothers with their 2006 debut "JupiterFalls". I really like "Jupiter Falls" and "Closer to Mars".

Beautiful melodies and lyrics, plus the voices of Michael and Matt Pinder. Simply a great listening experience.

Still Album of the year for me. Crazy Energy on the album and also live! Great band and the transformation from the earlier EPs to the album is on point.

Sadly, this might be their worst record to date.

I say this as the utmost of compliments, a few of these tracks have gotta be leftover from the I Saw The TV Glow soundtrack cutting room floor

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”

Michael Jordan

is it incredible, no. but it's kind of incredible that billy didn't make something that sucks total ass. some solid riffs here, something I no longer thought he was capable of. decent record!!!

The only Coldplay album you ever need to listen to. Sometimes I like to imagine that there’s an alternate universe where Coldplay didn’t make it big and just kept making amazing albums like Parachutes under the radar.

I love Pain.

Uno de los mejores descubrimientos de este año.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

esta me gusta mucho

Para mi sigue siendo su obra cumbre. Aunque todo lo demás también es excelso, había más hueco para los silencios y la tensión antes de que Martxel Mariskal entrara como letrista y quisieran decir muchas cosas en muchos compases.

this album altered my brain chemistry

“Our band could be your life”

Khruangbin seems to have found their comfort zone, their "magic formula" if you will and if it's working why stop? It's not sonically different from their other work there are absolutely no surprises. This album added to the meandering never ending album that is their discography.