bgillesp
gilly
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Last Active 04-03-22 1:28 pm
Joined 12-01-15

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01.09.22 bgillesp's 2021 Albums of the Year10.16.21 4000 Ratings, List is Digs
09.17.21 Rec Me Female Dance Pop >120 BPM04.20.21 Jazz bgillesp (Week 10)
03.06.21 JustJoe. for Emeritus!03.02.21 bgillesp's 2020 Albums of the Year
06.18.20 Rec me Black artists with a message01.18.20 bgillesp's 2010s Albums of the Decade (
01.17.20 bgillesp's 2010s Albums of the Decade (01.12.20 bgillesp's 2019 Albums of the Year
05.30.19 Hidden Tracks01.15.19 bgillesp's 2018 Playlist
01.07.19 bgillesp's 2018 Albums-OTY pt. 201.06.19 bgillesp's 2018 Albums of the Year pt.
01.05.19 bgillesp's 2018 EPs/Lives/Archivals and11.10.18 3 Years of Sput Friends
10.31.18 PTV: All Songs Ranked (with Lyrics)09.14.18 bgill's Trip Hop Playlist, Journey Favo
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rec roulette round 1- bgill

Four participants with four lists of recs going.. Each will act as judge of his own list and dictate what genre/theme goes for each round, and the other three will rec.. How we compute scores will be determined at a later date amid bloodshed and squabbles.. It will messy and long and beautiful!! Participants are UniqueUniverse, Frippertronics, butcherboy, and myself, bgillesp...
1Lydia
Illuminate

For this round, you will rec me indie dream pop/rock. I'll be very liberal with this definition if you think it fits well enough. Just make sure it's at least a little bit dream-y
2Beach House
Bloom

Uni X 2
This atmosphere is exactly what I was looking for. It had me hooked from the first track hard. I liked the vocals and the simple riffs had a good vibe going. It was all very dreamy, but somewhere along the way, the songs started running together. Many of the songs were built on very similar 2 to 6 (often just 2 or 4) bar progressions and the structure didn't allow for a ton of variety. The 6 bar repeated section from opener Myth was just translated to a watered-down 2 bar version in Wishes, for example. That being said, the album still had an awesome sound, and there were enough moments that did change things up to keep everything interesting, so I'll give it a 4.0/5. Good spacing on the hidden track too. Fav song: The Hours
+0.2 bonus for being exactly what I was looking for =*Winner*
3Flotation Toy Warning
The Machine That Made Us

Butch
I rarely pay any attention to lyrics within the first 5 listens of an album, but this one managed to have several moments where I noticed and enjoyed the lyrics within 2. It is another album that had a great atmosphere, and while it wasn't *exactly* what I was looking for, it managed to stay interesting for its entire duration. I quite enjoyed it, and it was very well close enough to what I was looking for. The songs had variety and the album flows well with some really interesting song transitions. 4.0-4.1/5 Fav Song: Unsure/Several
4Deerhunter
Monomania

Chippertronics
This album was the one I was most unsure of how I felt on first listen. There was a lot going on in almost hidden layers of the music that I needed time to take in. The bass lines on most of these songs are killer and are probably my favorite thing about the album. All of their sounds work together really well but a couple of the not so great tracks to me like THM and Pensacola bring it down a bit. I definitely want to check more from this band though because the highlights of this album were as good as any from the other two. 3.8/5 Fav Song: Monomania
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