it's good but it feels kind of unfulfilled, like there's so much potential here but it just kind of teeters on the edge of good and really good when it could easily eclipse that

good nighty night music

yeah i can definitely see that

"it's good but it feels kind of unfulfilled, like there's so much potential here but it just kind of teeters on the edge of good and really good when it could easily eclipse that"

i see this. i consider it some tripout tracks that sort of coast along, a few that shoot for the stars (title track) and then there are some cool sorta checkpoints which are like 'hey, remember this, you're here, welcome back' (goes by is a personal favorite and describes this). it's just a really cool experience; easy album to just lie on my bed and press play and listen to all the way through to.

yeah actually now that you mention that i need to get this on my ipod so i can fall asleep to it. i love albums where you can just chill and kind of segue in and out of sleep to it.

Album Rating: 3.5

Album rules. I'm so glad I found this the other day

exactly.

also i imagine a really sort of sterilized, really white/chrome laboratory with a whole bunch of moving science equipment and everyone standing around in labcoats (this may be influence by the song title 'science center') especially during the slow songs. and, of course, it's in outer space. i can almost hear a voice saying something like 'hello and welcome aboard the...'

Album Rating: 4.5

Goes By is my favorite too, as is Genetic.

I don't understand their popularity. Maybe there can be a beauty to some of it but it isn't that expressive and doesn't really go anywhere much of the time.

Does it look like I’m here? This is a wordless work, so the question just goes to town on my brain during the hour this record inhabits my headspace. After spending a considerable amount of 2010 trying to muster a substantive response: well, yes and no. Emeralds’ brilliance is here like a season, like an abandoned industrial park, like breath. Listening to Here is not the image you see when you look in the mirror, it is the moment when you turn slightly to the right and see the outline of a dead loved one’s cheekbones, having never really noticed those cheekbones before; cheekbones haunt the bathroom. Perhaps that’s too specific: Here happens between walking and falling. Your shoe slips, you feel an illusion of weightlessness, twenty things happen in your head, and you’re on your ass. Here takes that dense hunk of twenty things and rolls them out like continent-sized pizza dough.

Does it even look like I’m here? I imagine the question pouring out of every inanimate object. The album cover shows an old Magnavox on a couch—blank, white, glowing—staring out at me with fuzzy drool collecting at its corners. A tar-like gunk drips from somewhere inside me, which now feels like it’s outside me. I begin to understand what webcam strippers must feel like. I would go home were I not already standing in my kitchen. Or in my bathroom. This albums stirs within me sensations that straddle the line between the familiar and the strange. Only Emeralds could stretch the uncanny into a seven and a half minute title track.

Does it look like I’m here? I’m not sure. I can feel you all around me. I’m like a blind bird flying through a fireworks display: the sound and heat are enough for me to sense that something spectacular is occurring. “Now You See Me.” Yeah, but not literally. Emeralds are on to something with these titles. Maybe asking completely irrelevant questions is the doorway to profundity. What Happened (2009) dares you to summarize its immensity. Here asks you if you’re stupid enough not to trust your eyes.

Does It Look Like I’m Here? No, but I know you are.

this is ridiculously good

Album Rating: 4.0

this album is really good. Genetic is amazing.



Honestly, the review was way too wordy and sounds incredibly pretentious. It's a short review but

it takes forever to read because you're constantly trying to cram in as many unnecessary big words

as you can.



Like, what the fuck is this?:

As a different loop is added on, the group takes minimal effort to syncretize it with the

previous instrumentation, resulting in massive reverberations that drift instead of

blossoming

Album Rating: 3.5

i needs to give this another spin

goes by is still a classic chill album. i love this a lot but i sort of wonder about the potential of an album like this aesthetically but lacking the big boss-level tracks like the title track and genetic.

Album Rating: 3.0

im sorry aids i will try to dumb down my writing for you



not that i really give a shit about your opinion on a review i wrote in january

Album Rating: 3.0

I MEAN HE USES THE WORD "ACCUMULATING" WHAT THE FUCK SO PRETENTIOUS



faggot



edit: though in a more serious effort to defend my work, its not that hard to comprehend what i meant and even if it doesn't make sense to you, what does it matter? I'm not here to hold the hands of the readers, i'm here to write about the record and how it comes off. if I use a verbose path to describe the effect of the record, then i probably found that way necessary. I really don't care if it's too much for you to read. Don't read it then.

eno chill it's cool

aids that sentence you quoted honestly makes perfect sense

Album Rating: 3.0

edit: though in a more serious effort to defend my work, its not that hard to comprehend what i meant and even if it doesn't make sense to you, what does it matter? I'm not here to hold the hands of the readers, i'm here to write about the record and how it comes off. if I use a verbose path to describe the effect of the record, then i probably found that way necessary. I really don't care if it's too much for you to read. Don't read it then.



included that in there

(also eno guess what i'm listening to formlessness right now)

Album Rating: 3.0

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