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Dua Lipa Radical Optimism
While I would have loved another instance of Dua's disco pop magic, I fully respect and anticipated her decision to leave Future Nostalgia behind and to go to another sound. This one has far less of an identity but I would say it draws a lot from late 00's music and also fancies itself a bit more clubby/festival material. The result sadly pales in execution compared to FN. Both in quality and sound it feels like a not much improved follow up to LP1. The early album feels tepid and half hearted, with even the catchy single Houdini being far less explosive and colourful than it could have been. It takes until 5 to finally have prod that is a bi		3.5
05.16.24
MF DOOM MM.. Food
Acknowledging that this is 5 years later than Operation, this one feels rawer, relying less on the simple attractiveness of boom bap type beats, and oddly feeling a bit more old school, reminiscent of East Coast records of the early 90s, not in the least because of the plethora of movie/cartoon samples-based interludes. It is a rapper's album, and an excellent one at that, rather than a beatsmaker's album. I have to say I quite clearly prefered Food this time over. Some of the tracks are pure jams (Kon Karne, Deep Fried Frenz) and this album's probably gonna get a fair few spins in my car. Unrelenting quality, needs a closer listen. [car] 4.2		4.0
05.16.24
Proceed Curious Electric
A really cool and tightly executed slightly mathy post-hardcore record with pop- vocals, pretty much, that albeit always strongly apt and skilled ere on the border between jolly
good and cringe, the latter being reinforced by vocal prod that feels slightly outdated and has about 20% of HRVRD DNA. "Nightshift" is a bit disappointing in that it has a
really cool and intriguing intro that goes into some of the least interesting material on the record. The early album is excellent and the closer is a superb way to end the
record. Honestly one I will definitely jam again, with some inspiring moments, always with the caveat 		4.0
05.16.24
This Patch of Sky These Small Spaces
These folks have a good sound and some strong tracks, but I am not fully onboard with their album construction yet. First of all, the opener is in itself nice, but turns incredibly frustrating when the transition into 2 turns very awkward and nulls 1's build up entirely. 2 is pretty, well crafted, and builds up nicely, but I swear its core melody is taken from somewhere - Jurassic Park I think? - and so I was distracted by that the whole time. 3 is pretty neat, but the heights of the record resolutely lie in the mid album. 4's violin inevitably evokes GYBE, 5's finale is cool with fun drums, 6 is more prettiness and I love the way they use st		3.5
05.07.24
Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos
The first six sketches or so are indeed beautiful deconstructed, high sustained piano pieces that give many 'normal' records a run for their money. One is reminded of a much more depressed and edited Nils Frahm piano piece. For an album of 'sketches' there is also strong continuity here. Then the last 3 kind of drop the continuity and do feel more like random pieces which are okay but with not much interest. Drops this a bit. Still a fair few lovely tracks I might jam again here. 3.6		3.5
05.06.24
Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands
Now from the get go, I have to give this album immense credit for making me actually enjoy a genre I normally can hardly tolerate. Sure I was in the right mood for it, but I scrolled through many other artists and this album clearly stood out. It is unashamedly cheesy and corny (I mean, just look at the art), but it doesn't forget to pay attention to its craft under all the cheese. The instrumentation is varied, the vocals are solid and do not fall into silly territory, and the vibes are mostly epic in line with the artwork rather than overly self righteous. Now the album does fall off in the second half. 6 kind of lost me on a run that was p		4.0
05.04.24
Slow Meadow Slow Meadow
Nice, pretty, strong opener, rest (appropriately) is all a nice blur. Gives me similar meditative feelings to AWVFTS. 3.6		3.5
05.04.24

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  • Pennywise_M Looking forward to know your thoughts on Lunar Vacation's LP. Read your soundoffs on their EPs and it got me wondering. I know this is fairly random but yeah haha
    October 18 10:32 PM
  • alamo https://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=460615
    June 16 11:48 PM
  • robertsona s***s too easy you just gotta post a million times. and have a song as a good as "aqua gorilla"
    January 4 05:01 PM
  • GhandhiLion https://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=445237 | I should have mentioned this to you sooner. Sequel to the Selebeyone album.
    January 2 08:25 PM
  • robertsona new goodfight is a mess but good, check it
    December 27 10:13 PM

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