Reviews

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

five years later (and post-brat), i think this is still charli's standout release. charli is a perfectly curated demonstration of her versatility and demonstration of the growth she experienced with the mixtapes that preceded this. razor sharp melodies with affecting lyricism (white mercedes, official, thoughts) beautifully contrasts with production with textures that still melt my brain ((click, shake it). i adore this with my whole heart.

"gone" is also a contender for the best pop song of the 2010s and i'll throw hands over it

Tim Reaper releases some of the best drum 'n' bass I've heard this side of the noughties. This EP does not fail to deliver.

Pretty soulful for a death metal album...

I'm a big fan of them since Necroticism and was blown away by the 2013 comeback album Surgical Steel. This follow up I somehow forgot to give enough attention. Upon listening to it recently it's way better than I remembered.

My modus regarding Merzbow:

1. I think about listening to a Merzbow record. (Side note: I've never re-listened to a Merzbow album.)

2. I think 'Holy shit, I hope this album isn't high-pitched.'

3. I start the album, volume very low.

4. Having ensured that my hearing won't be damaged, I start listening.

5. Around five minutes into the first track, I nearly always think 'Why did I start listening to Merzbow?' and also 'There's no other artist who's really like Merzbow.' and 'Holy shit, has he released around 600 albums, singles, and collabs?' and 'I wonder if he ever listens to his old albums. Why should he? Fuck it.'

6. After half an hour, I wonder whether I'm falling to… More

al pot petit hi ha la bona confitura

EPs > LPs, always.

These are perfect covers.

Listen, Fred could slap me directly across the face and I’d probably rate it five stars. Quieter , slower, more emotive instrumentation than his previous albums but I don’t hate it. Good stuff to hug ur friends to on the dance floor or soundtrack the pivotal scene in a coming of age indie film. The features on this are curated specifically for me (emmylou ??? R u kidding me ??) and tho I’ll always love a Fred/skrillex/four tet collab I am also thrilled to see him dating other people.

This is a grand experimental album made by a highly inventive and evocative musician, mainly drummer. This is the kind of experimental instrumentals you'd expect to be released on Drag City or similar labels.

Polyrhythmic drumming abounds with simple and dissonant electric-guitar notes. This is some provocative and great shit and I lap it up, simple as that.

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.

have you ever wondered what it would sound like if timbaland produced a deftones song? no? well you can hear it here anyway.

in my second hour of being on hold with my local Department of Revenue and was just reminded how much this song whips. My city should license it for its hold music. What an improvement for everyone

Trash Metal con variaciones de tiempos y de moods a través del disco, este álbum es una de las referencias más claras del Metal Extremo.

Trash Metal del real, del clásico y del rápido y al punto.

This is even a proper EP with 2 new songs and 2 remixes.

Haunting, unsettling, scathing. and really, really good.

Death Metal Melódico, rápido pero con sus espacios de reflexión. Un gran logro del metal extremo de los noventas.

Drone Doom Metal, es oscuro, es pesado, es misterioso.

The only record store "for 60 miles" was playing Self Portrait on the PA. The owner, talking with another customer, said he doesn't really go out looking for records. Whatever ends up here is what ends up here. He's not going to alphabetize, genre-tize, categorize things. In fact, he's closing down in the Spring. That's the kinda fella that puts on Self Portrait.

The ‘I Saw The TV Glow’ soundtrack is actually what caught my attention first since I follow a number of the artists, it’s very much my vibe of 90s inspired indie music.

After listening I watched the trailer and added the movie to my queue without any further investigation.

The film is really something and the soundtrack plays a huge role in setting the tone. I really love that this movie and soundtrack exists.

Aus der “6 Lieder” EP wurde dann das “14 Lieder” Album und aus Meinrad Jungblut wurde Peterlicht.

So richtig kam das Album nicht mit der EP mit, aber was willste machen, wenn du einen Überhit gelandet hast…

“Ich hatte einen Parkplatz am Fuße der Ngong-Berge” ist eine der besten Textzeilen überhaupt, aber die gab es auch schon auf der EP.

Wer meint, sie bräuchte mehr dt. Lyrik im Alltag, der sei dieses Album von Peterlicht empfohlen.

Die Stücke sind textlich mit seinen Assoziationsversetzungen manchmal witzig, aber meist eher lakonisch treffend.

Ein bisschen Konsumkritik (ohne Moral), ein bisschen Lifestyle und viel Melancholie über den Wohlstand und das alles irgendwie nix bringt.

This is my favourite format for a split EP: over the others’ songs in your bands fashion, include a new a song or two!

it took two minutes for these fuckers to completely destroy one of the most sacred words in the italian language.

30 years later I still can't hear the world lasagna without laughing, truly cursed.

I love this so much. It’s like a modern version of Morrissey, or The Smiths.

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.

This is it. This is Radiohead’s best album. Please @ me

I didn't know about this concerto before but I'm glad I discovered it through Chloe, this concerto is beautiful and the sound of the orchesta plus the way she plays it it's perfect.

This might be my most played EP ever. So sad that Trophy Wife was just one of those British Bands we’ve never heard about anymore.

“Dieses Album ist so großartig, aber das ist doch auch nur wieder so eine britische Band, von der wir nie wieder was hören werden.”

Meine Plattenbesprechungen waren auch im Jahr 2000 nicht informierter und besser.

I was too young for The Smiths (surprisingly my father had none of their records…), so forgive me for this being my favourite Smiths-Album ;-)

They fucking cleared the rights for every sample! This Album is an achievement.

The Videos for the album were equally great.

Es gab nach der Zweiten Blütephase des dt. HipHops dann dieses Überangebot an dt. Sprechgesang, der nur noch wenig Elemente des klassischen HipHops hatte. Textlich ging es auch mal um Internet oder Sommer. Das Setup einer macht Musik, der andere textet und sprechsingt blieb aber gleich.

Die Vertreter waren stolz auf ihre Wortspielereien und die Einser-Abiturientinnen hörten es mit Genuss weil es so angenehm kognitiv knisterte.

Absolute Hörempfehlung, weil es so etwas kaum noch gibt.

Anspieltipp: Sommersonne, Schlaf mein MC und Schlag von Lyrischen Flügel

Full Disclosure: I’ve heard about this album way back because Kylie Minogue (I am not fucking kiddin’) said the words “Mhhh, D’Angelo…” in very dreamy-sexy way during an interview for Viva Zwei. This might be the shortest album review of an album I’ve ever heard. And K.M. was absolutely right!

Mhhh, D’Angelo…

Kind of lacking much substance throughout the record. The lyricism was subpar and the instrumentation was pretty rudimentary.

Okay, they had the hit single “If I Ever Feel Better” and “Too Young” that you couldn’t escape in 2000 Germany. These two songs followed you everywhere. The other songs of the album were a bit too quirky for my taste in 2000. But songs like Funky Squaredance made me stop and listen. What is this?

My Soundtrack of the Summer of 2001 before the world abruptely changed.

Deutsche Musikgeschichte. Wie so vieles in der dt. Geschichte gab es auch hier kein Happy End. Die Texte sind nach fast über 30 Jahren schmerzhaft relevant.

Dieses Album ist immer da. Die Texte von Uhlmann und seine hier noch nicht soo gute Fertigkeit zu singen. Dieses Album ist so vollkommen, dass es kein Wunder war, dass die Band am Nachfolger fast verzweifelte.