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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
The Paper Kites Woodland
Listened to this distractedly whilst washing the car I must confess, but it is very cute and soothing indie folksy softsy popsy stuff that only lets down on the last track really. The bonus one is good too. For this genre of music it is a good one to have on the rota. 3.6		3.5
05.04.24
Nujabes Hydeout Productions 1st Collection
Of course, comparison with volume II is inevitable. In overall quality, and also instrumentally, they are eminently similar and there isn't much to say here that I didn't say for volume II. The vocals here are perhaps a bit less adventurous, yet there are a few tracks where I found they really let down the instrumentals. The atmosphere is perhaps a little more uniform here but remains o so sweet, Nujabessy and aerial. This collection is also a lot more frontloaded than the first one. Almost all of the tracks that felt more strikingly appealing were in the first half, until out of nowhere the last two tracks (and the conclusion track which is 		4.0
04.27.24
MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday
After the intro and without a conclusion, Op Doomsday is experienced as a series of consistently well crafted songs that all blur into one another save for the one that slows up and down. It is an eminently playlistable album and its style is more classic and closer to boom bap than Madvillain's is, but that also makes it feel less abrasive and more uniformly good. There are few if any complete wow moments, but equally I can't think of a single point I disliked although owing to being the only non intro track here departing from the sound, the slow-fast one does feel a bit jarring. Unlike on Madvillain, the songs are actually developed and le		4.0
04.27.24

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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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