Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Starting to come around to Kiss the Stars more and more. Still don't *love* When I Get Out, and Unwanted Guest is proving to be the song that I'm tiring of the quickest.
Anyway here's my first-impression tier list, obviously bound to change as this gets more and more spins (which it will).
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S: Without a Blush; Obsessed
A+: Not That Kind
A: Secret; Her Own Heart
B: Stay With Me; Keep; Kiss the Stars
C: Unwanted Guest; When I Get Out
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Album Rating: 4.5
Hatchie discog rated
EP:
Sure: 5 (her best song)
Sleep: 4
Sugar and Spice: 4
Try: 4
Bad Guy: 4
LP:
Not That Kind: 4
Without a Blush: 4.5
Her Own Heart: 4
Obsessed: 4.5
Unwanted Guest: 4
Secret: 4.5
Kiss the Stars: 4
Stay With Me: 5
When I Get Out: 4
Keep: 4
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
Unwanted Guest a generous 3 out of 5
Everything else 2 or under
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Looks like I need to spin Sugar & Spice (never heard).
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Album Rating: 2.5
Stay With Me is easily the best here, get that shit out of B tier
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Doof is wrong again I see
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Album Rating: 4.0
Guess I’m checking her EP if “Sure” is her best track. This shit’s intoxicating
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Sure is definitely her best song. Try is really good too off the EP.
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
Let history be the judge - I see this one being flavour of the month
It’s thin song writing and the average here is only a 3.6 during maximum hype period
Every hook or catchy melody sounds like ten other things I’ve heard before, often things I didn’t care for the first time.
Good to know the Australians are ahead of the rest on their recycling
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Album Rating: 2.5
"Good to know the Australians are ahead of the rest on their recycling"
Wish I'd thought of this for the review summary.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
"Every hook or catchy melody sounds like ten other things I’ve heard before"
Yet you love the new Bill Callahan hmmmm
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
S: Stay With Me
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
'Yet you love the new Bill Callahan hmmmm'
There are no new acoustic guitar chords ;P
You can’t just shit on Nick Drake for not going dubstep. Callahan is the most adventurous of the 200 albums I’ve heard so far this year, no joke
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is gonna be Doof's Bill to die on
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
The albums have zero in common other than release dates - I was trying not to compare them... :|
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Idk what's adventurous about writing 20 songs with monotone vocals that never change and an acoustic guitar and pretty much nothing else. Every song sounds the damn same, IDGAF how good the lyrics are. There's more variety on a single Hatchie song than on his entire album.
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
All 20 songs are infinitely better than any one song here for me though Gyro. Also this is tonally more homogenous than the BC album (which is almost like a tour of the different moods we encounter in the writer's head as we progress - it's very 'novel-like' for better or worse, you are inside someone else's head and perspective, even encountering their dreams).
That's an album where I rate every song as at least really damn good - that is pretty swish for a TWENTY song album.
Then you add in the fact the songs flow aw nice and have recurring themes and motifs and all that and it becomes something of a meisterwerk.
Callahan has the chops, he's released about twelve solid albums - a lot of folk here had no prob with Dream River and the new one has to be better than DR imo, I mean for me that's just a given, and I rate DR a 4.5...so it's 2019 and people are scared of album length/number of tracks and just can't be f'cked with an acoustic album if it isn't written by Sufjan lets be honest.
This is ten tunes slapped together on a wing and a prayer that no one notices they're all second hand pap. This is 2019's Kacey Musgraves for me - inane shite to my sensibilities, so a bit surprised at the love, but peeps adore so enjoy it why not. Pop music deserves bettah, maybe
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
'On her EP Sugar & Spice, Pilbeam offered glassy guitars, long sighs, and some bright choruses, but there was nothing darker beneath the surface to reward your close, ongoing attention. She promised a broader palette for her debut, but Keepsake feels hemmed in by the same LACK OF DEPTH.'
'In a vacuum, each of these tracks is inoffensive but forgettable. Taken together, they are much less than the sum of their parts...Sugary but hollow, Keepsake melts like cotton candy, dissolving on impact.'
Pitchfork are on it this year, credit where it is due, good review.
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Album Rating: 4.0
We’re only comparing albums because of Doof, it’s a bit chalk and cheese so no real point in battling them against one another. I prefer the Hatchie as it stands but I’ve got the Callahan at a 4 too - I’m more likely to reach for the Hatchie on account of its length for sure but it’s disingenuous to keep this up
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
I’d be more comfortable comparing this against the Big Thief.
Or if I really want to get kicked the Eleanor Friedberger from last year that again I just think is better written and more diverse and unique.
Everyone shat on me for that one so I have zero problem calling this one out as real dull.
Or last year’s Beach House that sounds so much more widescreen and ‘full’ if again the song writing went a bit rote on occasion.
I’ve listened to this four times now, it’s growing off me from a poor start. Game over and goodnight Hatchie, sweet dreampops
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