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Very good mix-compliation by The Rapture with a lot of soul-funk.

There was a time where I just bought everything !K7 was releasing ;-)

I had been putting off listening to this because I feared it wouldn't live up to the brilliance of PAINLESS. I needn't have worried.

While it may not have quite the same impact as PAINLESS's high points, it is still a tremendous album. It starts with energy and pace but quickly settles into a record that feels reflective and considered. It may be less catchy and poppy, but it's an album that gently envelops you, and I like that. Bonus points for the toms on Mutations.

The second release this year from the new incarnation of Yorke, Greenwood, and company both condenses and expands their hallmarks: it begins with synthetic reveries but quickly shows that the swift arpeggios and syncopated rhythms from their last two works are here to stay.

Establishing itself as the 'Amnesiac' equivalent to 'Wall of Eyes' could have been enough, but 'Cutouts' manages to go further. It's very good news that there are still itches to scratch in this band.

As if making the opposite journey to Dan Snaith with Caribou, KLO's latest album sounds much more like dream-pop on danceable steroids than their previous albums, which were steeped in the sophisticated electronics of Daniel Avery, among others.

At times, the almost gym-like euro-dance moments push me back, but it sounds promising. I'll need to give it more listens to revise my score.

Fav track - Ballad (In The End)

There's a lot of awful bullshit going on all the time and I fuck up a lot trying to get through it. In the end I act like a cornered little rat who let society and capitalism and all the overwhelming ills of being a human get too big for me to handle. Our identities can get manufactured and marketable and the more you slink into the system of working just to live the less you feel like you're a person worth paying attention to or worthy of an iota of self-respect. So we get depressed, lonely, deep into self-medication, defeated, hungry and easy to push around so we can give up easier.

Getting out of how that feels can… More

The greatest album OAT imo

Is it a three, is it a four? Is it a collection of uniquely great songs or a collection of similarly good songs that all merge into one? I'll give it some more listens because it makes me bop and in isolation almost every track is a treat, but currently has the tendency to feel samey when listened through in one go

Great album, dreamy vibes, and one I'll make an effort to revisit. Something about 'Time To' threw me off though, felt slightly out of place although I couldn't tell you why, and the album tails off a bit too much with 'Trust and Desire' for my liking

Very cool, and a breath of fresh air for me.

I’m starting to believe Phil Collins is less a person and more an embodying spirit that can join anyone talented enough to channel him.

There should be a „I‘m a Nineties Bitch!“ sticker on the cover of this CD.

Lenny Kravitz has been synonymous with rock and funk for decades, and his ability to blend genres like soul, blues, and hard rock has earned him global recognition. “Strut” (2014) was an album full of energy and confidence, while “Raise Vibration” (2018) was a spiritual journey into Kravitz’s soul, carrying a strong social message. Kravitz demonstrated that even after all these years, Kravitz could still deliver creatively powerful work. However, “Blue Electric Light” from 2024 disappoints me. While it’s unmistakably Kravitz, it feels interchangeable and lacks inspiration.

What a banging album. Could go nuts on TikTok or whatever the kids are into these days if it was released today.

It can be easy when making ambient music to just add a bunch of pads and drones and call it a day, but this album somehow tugs a bit at the fabric of ambient music and makes something new and dark.

I think Kelly took the “dreamstate” analogy too literally here, as for the first time in discography, she teetered too far off balance of liminal elegant dance to full on yawns at parts of the record. Don’t get me wrong, “Dark Angel” through “Higher” is pretty signature Kelly Lee Owens, and “Sunshine” through “Time To” is as well, but the rest is too comfortable and forgettable.

this album rules

it’s true what they say about one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden by Ada Lea!

Como un disco de Garage 60s pero con producción y sensibilidad moderna, creo que incluso me gusta mas que el primero

This could easily be a new album by Harry Styles.

someone did this at karaoke last night and I hadn’t thought about it in a while but now it’s all I can think about. In hindsight I’m a bit surprised that Confessions on a Dance Floor didn’t get a revival in the wake of Future Nostalgia but I guess it’ll have a chance at some attention next year for the 20th anniversary?

It’s time to finally move on from the neon lime green of Brat Summer and dive headfirst into the steel chrome gauzy drones of Nati Infiniti, Alessandro Autumn is here.

El éxito de Beverly Hills supone una inyección de moral y adrenalina a Rivers Cuomo que le empuja a intentar replicarlo, por un lado, y le da alas para seguir aleándose del típico sonido Weezer por el otro.

Acompañando al single 100% formulaico (Pork & Beans), tenemos la respuesta a la opera rock del American Idiot de Green Day (The Greatest Man That Ever Lived), un par de singles pretendidamente gamberros (Troublemaker, Everybody Get Dangerous) y un sonrojante acercamiento a la radiofórmula nostálgica para padres (Heart Songs).

De nuevo se dispara en varias direcciones a la vez, y el intento de democratización del grupo por parte de Rivers, incluyendo tres canciones (en general bastante olvidables) escritas y cantadas por el… More

Still so very, very good. I love how his vocals are processed in places. Just a music lovers dream of an album. Reminiscent in places of Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley, but most of all a unique sound of its own.

Cherry Bomb is the biggest example of why mixing matters. You can barely hear the vocals at times, and the instrumentals are so unbalanced you legitimately wonder if it's intended this way. It fully ruins the listening experience, and personally made me stop listening to any Tyler albums to this day.

Fans try to defend this by saying it's better if you listen to it at a low volume the entire time, which... that's not how frequencies in audio and such are supposed to work. It's an interesting case though for remastering rap albums, since unlike rock and such you don't really see remasters in this genre. I can't think of an album more deserving of it though than Cherry… More

No quiero ser yo MONDOSONORO dando un 8 por defecto pero es que de los 11 temas del disco, hay 8 que se te instalan a la que les pegues dos escuchas. Habrá que ver con el paso del tiempo como aguantan pero creo que les ha venido bien quitarse algunas de las capas que se habían puesto en Manual de estilo.

Iron & Wine, ese mago barbudo que transforma guitarras acústicas en susurros de vida, nos regaló Our Endless Numbered Days, un álbum que se siente como una manta vieja y suave sobre la piel, o como un té tibio en una tarde lluviosa. Pero no te engañes, porque aunque Sam Beam parezca el tipo de hombre que se acurrucaría en tu sofá con un cuaderno desgastado, lo que hace con sus canciones es pura alquimia emocional. Aquí, en vez de grabar en el sótano como en The Creek Drank The Cradle, se metió en un estudio y lo que salió fue un disco tan pulido que brilla como un diamante, pero sin perder ni un gramo de esa intimidad que… More

Te tiras en la cama con una migraña que te aplasta el cráneo, y por alguna razón decides poner All Mirrors mientras cierras los ojos. Maldita sea. Apenas suena el primer acorde de “Lark” sientes que la presión en tu cabeza se multiplica por mil, como si el dolor mismo estuviera conspirando con las cuerdas para arrancarte el alma del cuerpo. Pero es que All Mirrors no es un álbum cualquiera, es una travesía épica, un maldito viaje astral que te lleva a lugares que ni sabías que existían, mucho menos cuando lo escuchas con el cerebro latiendo al ritmo del dolor.

Y entonces llegas a “New Love Cassette”, y todo lo que creías entender sobre la realidad se disuelve.… More

Bar the intro track (no shit), the songs are pretty straightforward guitar-picking stuff that follow the chord-progression structure that Justin Vernon laid down on For Emma, Forever Ago.

many years ago i went through a phase where i used 朝は来るから すぐ明けるから for my morning alarm, which is Very Funny when i think about it. (no really. listen to it and imagine waking up to it on, like… a normal morning.)

anyway i need to be up early to catch my plane tomorrow and all the normal alarm sounds were annoying so i'm using it as my "get your ass to the [train to the] airport NOW" alert 👍

An incredibly good album from an artist who would eventually reject their own pop ambitions. Speaking of career rejections, her singing style reminds me of David Sylvian in how her voice conveys depth and drama so effortlessly.

I don’t take this album for granted.

Definitely one of the wackier releases in 2024, and in a wonderful way. The performances are phenomenal on every song and the record oozes with …vivid… storytelling, frantic jazz drums, prog-rock and jazz guitar glory, beautiful accent horns and backup vocals, and more. Usually when lead men go solo, they lose the hmph of the collective, but not here. While there are definitely some parts that err on a side of chaos to the detriment of the music, overall this is a crazy roller coaster ride into the abyss. It’s every part shocking and impressive at once in a way that is truly punk, without being a true punk record. To be honest, it’s a pretty avant-garde and… More

My friend said I would like this because "It's kinda heavy" and he was "kinda wrong"

Nice. Will need repeat listens to see how much of an earworm it is.

quan el dnb és sentimental

Este EP te chuta toda la frialdad y angustia que cabría esperar de un dúo post-punk originario de Bielorrusia. Riffs de bajo con chorus y arpegios de guitarra con reverb que te arropan con melancólica oscuridad. Bien ejecutado y muy canónico. No inventan nada, pero entra muy bien, quizá precisamente por esa sencillez y falta de pretensiones.

Disco de Pop a piñon, como los Ramones pero sin parecerse a ellos. Al principio parece simple, pero las melodías y los ganchos tienen un montón de oficio detrás. El típico disco que te ponias los viernes mientras te duchabas antes de salir.

It is breathtakingly good. It picks you up, puts you among the stars and hits you with interstellar power. From atmospheric to straight up death metal and everything inbetween. Record of the year for me.

What an accomplishment this album is. I didn't think Caws would top The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy but here's something.

Philosophical ideas with great guitar choices and guitar engineering, not to mention holistic songs... It's all a treat.

The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy contained elements of great ideas per song, but this album looks at every song as a whole.

The albums are different. I love the hooks and melodies on The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy but Moon Mirror is likely to carry a lot more hefty longevity.

Pretty smooth jazz that provides an excellent work environment. Joel is obviously an extremely talented jazz xylophonist, but sometimes his jazz compositions are lacking in technicality or structure to a fault. There's a few here I'll come back to, but not a ton, which is partly due to my lack of affinity for smooth jazz and heavy preference for more psychedelia or experimentation.

Look I'm not saying I'm the President of the Chris Farren Enjoyers Club, but I am certainly an elected official of some kind.

I was really scared at first about what this was going to sound like based on his previous album (instrumental-only fake movie soundtrack), moving to a permanent full band, and the first single (which sounded too much like the usual contemporary indie rock that takes way too many cues from 90's alt rock for my liking).

But goddamn if Statue Song isn't an all-time great song. It's the other side of the Phil Collins coin with Mk.Gee - a song that leans into the earnestness of that style of 80's pop without ever crossing the line… More