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ESTO ES RAMPEEEER LOOOCOOOOO. DALE BOOOOCAAAA!!!

Disco del año. PERIOD.

AGUANTE RAMPERR LOCOOOOO

Rifé mi Play para venir acá. Rifamos la moto de mi papá. Rifamos mi Play. Para venir acá. Y no tenemos ni entrada. Pero mirá lo que es esto. Mirá lo que es esto. Esto es Ramper, loco

DALE RAAAAAMPEEEEER

This album really has 2 acts. The first half is extremely grungy showcasing tons of artistic growth. I love her exploration into post-punk and “Keep on Dancing” through “Binding” have been on repeat nonstop (shout out to “Like I Say” which is one of my most listened to tracks of 2024). Once the album slows down, it has a really hard time picking back up. The songs are beautiful, but any given track like “Call it Love” gets diluted by the surrounding ballads, which is something we’ve grown to expect out of Nilufer. Overall definitely very satisfied, but expectations will be sky high for her next record.

REINA DE FAROLAS!
No hay nada mas que añadir.

Same old, same old.

Cigarettes After Sexzzzzzz

Nunca fui demasiado fan de Nick Cave, hay muchísimo en su propuesta que me parecen innecesarias o, incluso, llegan a molestarme. Por ejemplo, me molesta que cante. No creo que lo haga bien y no creo que lo haya hecho nunca. Además, su querencia punk dejó de justificar semejante ejercicio de tortura a partir del momento en que el que empezó a tomarse demasiado en serio a si mismo. También me molesta su gravedad impostada, esa que alcanza su cenit en Push the Sky Away y en Grinderman y, por momentos, raya la vergüenza ajena. Tampoco he conectado nunca con su característica idiosincrasia que, a mi juicio, es demasiado testerónica y me repele. Sin embargo, todo cambió con Skeleton Tree.… More

El Kid A de estos muchachinos! 10/10

díficil decidir entre mentires o veritats

A near perfect album if it wasn’t for the production. These silences doesn’t work for a 2024 attention span! Also, the best Beatles cover ever made, right?

they say misery 🤔 loves company 🧑‍🤝‍🧑👯 we could start a company 💼………… and MAKE misery 😩

this song is Very Funny. shoutout to i think J who introduced me to it so long ago. in the music video they are manufacturing the CD singles for this song! wow so metatextual. FRUSTRAAATED INCOOORPORATED!

somewhere maybe, or not, i have a sheet of scrap paper where i went through and broke down the mix of this song. if i ever find it, i will update this review or write a new one or whatever.

Very nice Electronic Pop by London Grammar from Nottingham. "The Greatest Love" once again impresses with the voice of Hannah Reid.

An album that I can listen to again and again.

It’s good!

Greg Graffin is entirely allergic to subtext, yet literary enough to occasionally drop shit like "incipient senescence" and "loneliness saunters in [freedom's] breeze like a disease it drags along" into his lyrics. this was actually the perfect combination for me when i was 14 years old and really into no bullshit! but also big words!.

of course this album is… often cartoonishly didactic lmao. these days i find it sometimes earnest and endearing, sometimes self-righteous and exasperating… sometimes both at once. not really an album i revisit, but one that feels… deeply instrumental in the construction of my worldview during those early teen years.

there is, in my opinion, a single indisputable best song on this album. i am not… More

Perfect.

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

100% CERTIFICATED PURO DE OLIVA

It’s good!

It’s good!

make some time for an old friend

i am Deep Cleaning my browser bookmarks, and via that twisted labyrinth i found a mention of Black Out Days being an obsession song for me soon after it was released, and haha yeah i remember at least one night of drinking box wine alone and staying up until dawn while that song played on repeat. a truly miserable period!!

i can listen to this album without having a bad time, but… it's weird because i know it well, and every once in a great while think about listening to it… and i just can't emotionally connect with it. i hear feeling in it but it's kind of a dissociation album to me? sonically i always liked what they were… More

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

?? 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.

Putting my daughters to sleep since 2020.

I owe you a lot, Max

Like a stripped-down Slowdive, or a somewhat more commercial Grouper, Madeline Johnston with her Midwife project positions herself as one of the leading figures in the slowcore genre at the moment. In the dreamy soundscape, there are so many sublime layers that surface if you just listen carefully. With a background in post-metal, there comes a natural darkness, but the nods to ambient make the album feel peaceful and almost meditative to listen to.

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

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

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.

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".

me: brat is surely aoty, no competition.

mj lenderman:

Guapisimo el disco de interludios

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

i already had a little story for this album, but stories sometimes double upon stories, and now i have a doubled-upon story for this album.

yesterday: i am tidying my bedroom while listening to a new release by a band i have never heard of before, and by some leaps of association, i am reminded of this album. i put it on, thinking i can give it a fresh listen and maybe even log it here on record dot club. i am also coming up against my own stubbornness while tidying, so i break to take a shower.

here are some words i've sure other people have used to describe Gossamer: exuberant. frenetic. exultant. devastating. it doesn't devastate me now,… More

Well-produced neo-soul album. Tight and refreshing. "I Know" is such an earworm. Wish it had more variety.

I love Pain.