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| 0.0 | Winesburgohio STAFF | March 10th 18 |
"to write one album about the loss of a lover may be regarded as misfortune; to write another looks like carelessness" - Oscar Wilde, 2018, colourized
6 Bumps | Bump |
| 0.0 | giveup | March 18th 18 |
phil elverum proving that, contrary to popular belief, there is only 1 stage of grief: pumpin out sad songs on the guitar for $$$
5 Bumps | Bump |
| 0.0 | luci | March 8th 18 |
[comment referencing tissue boxes, weeping, canceling your plans tonight etc.]
[comment about how it's AOTY so far, but also unrankable and unratable, resistant to a year-end list
that is but a distraction from the eventual cessation of your existence, an echo that will linger until you
dissipate from all memory, untraceable through time if not for the sole mark you have left behind, your
comments and contributions to the site sputnikmusic.com]
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| 4.5 superb | Risodo | March 16th 18 |
The way the story is told and built, in songs of deep nd melancholic conceptions, border on human sentimental perfection. Mount Eerie is a fantastic project, and Phil Elverum is a musician who is leaving an increasingly consistent and complete legacy. I don't know what to say to add more arguments and pillars that can support my reasoning, i just retreat to feel.
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| 4.5 superb | valrus | March 9th 24 |
Just about as perfect as A Crow Looked At Me, though "Earth" has never quite sat right with me and "Two Paintings" is a lesser "Soria Moria" that meanders a bit too much. But the wider focus and palette, and the slightly more abstracted philosophical musings, are kind of a relief and make this an easier and more diverse listen.
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| 4.0 excellent | TheManMachine | April 25th 18 |
Chronicling a coda to something as crushing as A Crow Looked At Me less than a year after the fact reads like exhaustive therapy and an unnerving fixation. To continue down this conceptual path is a stretch, but the guy undeniably groks; plus who's gonna be the callous fuck that tells him to cease? This isn't a copy of 'Crow' cuz nothing really could ever be but also cuz instrumentally it reflects Elverum gradually moving forward -- bleakness broadened via fuzz and layers and numbness and some melody. There's a slight sense of solace among the suffering, some wit within the weariness, bit less recording "the death songs" and more recording songs about recording the death songs. Full of detailed memory-floods and spooky speculation and random rants in an attempt to dot-connect, very aware of the absurdity of playing those death songs at a music festival alongside Skrillex. Of course when he thinks he can have a lil romp in the grass with the sweet kid up shows those once-buried bleached bone chunks and up comes the exact process to secure said bone chunks. Dryly rosy chorus that's becoming sadly befitting for all of us: "People get cancer and die / People get hit by trucks and die / People just living their lives get erased for no reason / With the rest of us watching from the side".
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| 3.5 great | meenwolf131 | March 31st 18 |
extend his themes of feeling and introspective depressive storytelling with quiet straightforward simple acoustic soundscape / his emotional narrative flow with contextual melody or even droney atmosphere
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| 3.0 good | doofy | January 9th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tb1114 | October 25th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | kevbogz | December 28th 21 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | December 21st 21 |
| 3.5 great | eureka | August 8th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Jerbzz | February 14th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Polvo | January 11th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | nahtanoj | November 26th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | August 31st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | May 24th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Ben STAFF | April 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | junyi15 | December 24th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Moge | September 11th 19 |
| 3.5 great | ian b | July 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | March 14th 19 |
| 2.5 average | gschwen | January 16th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cormano | December 13th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | LMadden | December 13th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | kuzronk | December 12th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pangea | December 9th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | psim | October 19th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Akifexx | October 9th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Spluger | September 22nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | mommypig | September 15th 18 |
| 3.0 good | FelkFg | August 9th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | Yeet | July 17th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Gmsod | June 2nd 18 |
| 3.0 good | Gueero | April 30th 18 |
| 3.5 great | jesper STAFF | April 25th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Pon EMERITUS | April 22nd 18 |
| 3.0 good | Juanpa | April 22nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | aew100 | April 17th 18 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | April 15th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Jan555 | April 14th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Arctick | April 13th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. STAFF | April 11th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | adamsee | April 10th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | Meuric | April 7th 18 |
| 3.5 great | adr | April 7th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | JS19 | April 4th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | jer | April 2nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | P0laris | March 27th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | kloo | March 25th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rail | March 25th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Macck | March 24th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Prole | March 23rd 18 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | March 20th 18 |
| 1.0 awful | rc239 | March 20th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Corney | March 19th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | wg98 | March 19th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Keira | March 19th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | March 18th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | espnil | March 17th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | furpa | March 16th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Skoop | March 16th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jordan M. EMERITUS | March 16th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Alexxx | March 16th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | TwigTW | March 12th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Javier | March 12th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | bSmith | March 11th 18 |
| 3.5 great | PaabL | March 10th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | March 10th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | robin | March 9th 18 |
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