Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
Which is to say when I say he's totally sincere it's that he presents what makes this album awful in total sincerity and uses irony in narcissistic ways that reinforce that toxic sincerity
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Whereas the concept of “what if...computers...are...bad...” was at least somewhat fresh when Radiohead tackled it twenty years ago, that was, well, twenty years ago.
i think this and your what if phones but too much bits are a lil bit overdone tbh. like, i get it, and i more than anyone want to make a black mirror joke all the time, but the album isn't really about those things as much as it Very Occasionally uses them as framing devices, however i dont think it really says 'what if computers/phones are bad' -- theres a jokey song about a couple flirting with other people with their phones and a really really silly tune about the internet, but what? as for love it if we made it, that song does all these things perfectly imo, it physically manifests that twitter feed, it makes it all ooze out like slime and its simplicity really does make it one of my fave songs on 'the modern discourse'.
i find it hard to wrap this record into a unifying theme or wrap 'sincerity/irony' around it, but that's its allure to me. sometimes it's pop music of traditional type; sometimes it's taking that type and doing things to it (or thinking it's doing things to it). but part of healey's appeal to me is the curiosity that comes with that calm, disaffected vibe.. like I Like It When You Sleep this albums fuckin all over the place and full of vignettes so that album title cant be anything but a placeholder he left hanging, imo
good record. the first acoustic song is so atrocious though
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
why's my font so big there i don't like being this visible
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
"Be my mistake" is the worst song off the record and the place I would 100% agree with the arguments as to "toxicity". It's a dead-eyed, narcissistic account of groupie sex and Healy had already dealt with a lot of post-relationship feelings in a far more interesting way on "Somebody Else".
But the point I was trying to make is that I think there's a lot more grey area here than what was given credit for. A song like "I always wanna die sometimes" also complicates things in terms of "irony". That song is completely straight faced, and I'd say it's meant to stand in opposition to some of the other more disaffected stuff.
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Please tell me Brostep is back
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Love It If We Made It is a solid pop song at its core but it's totally vapid conceptually, as is most of the record. Yelling buzzwords as an illustration of what it's like to scroll through the social medias is just... insipid as hell. Will read the review shortly, glad you delivered a corrective.
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It's funny to me that critics are praising them as "pop heroes of the fake news era" when the overwhelming praise is the biggest fake news story of the fall season.
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Rather fitting don't you think
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
idk, like... i like how that song uses those 'buzzwords' (would contend with that word for most of the song) to present these worlds' within themselves. it's explosive on the surface, i love how physical it sounds, but i feel like a lot is contained within the particulars of those lines. its microcosm and big and blusterous at the same time (tho i may just be evidencing this just with me reading 1975 annotate their lyrics lmao)
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
its dumb and basic but i like jumping off of it lol
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You balanced discussion between the album's musical and sociopolitical merits well in the review. Sowing's review intentionally disregarded or rather deemed irrelevant the latter which felt reductive to me. We have differing philosophies on how (and if) politics should be discussed in reviews though.
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
Thanks for the comment Robin. I see where you're coming from, though I kind of disagree - I mean, the "Technology!" take is right in the title and also threaded through, by my count, at least six of the album's fifteen songs, so I think it's fairly central. I also appreciate the take on Love It If We Made It, but that kind of garbled flood is the main reason why I deleted my Twitter, so I may not be the target audience
Ty for feedback as well luci. I'm wondering what you mean wrt political discussion, though, since I don't think I say anything particularly partisan aside from the Shapirophile snark, but I might be overlooking something
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I meant political outlook in the broadest sense there, encompassing a critique of technology as political. Also the 'we' in that last sentence was contrasting me and Sowing's POVs on what should be discussed in reviews/threads.
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
Ah OK, makes sense
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Album Rating: 2.6
The song characterizes the state we’re in today with the care and sensitivity of a rockist characterizing a Janelle Monae album
lmao sputnik line of the year. great review too
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
It warms the heart to see that a lot of people aren’t swallowing this shit.
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Album Rating: 4.0
OK Computer isnt even Radiohead's best
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Album Rating: 4.0
good review. the only good ok computer comparison i've seen so far. i agree w/a lot of your points, especially regarding their previous attitudes towards relationships, and specifically women, and the relative shallowness of their takes on technology (loved the dirty computer line lol)
i do think there's something to be said for these lyrics not necessarily talking about women (or even other people, some of this is probably self-directed), given matty's mixed comments regarding his sexuality
but i mean it's still definitely problematic. but what i feel with this album that's made me ok with it compared to their past work is just how much more open and sincere it feels. i'd rather hear someone be genuine, flawed and seemingly open to change than be "ironically" toxic or whatever (there's still that on here but i feel like it's been cut down a ton). he's still a super obnoxious person, ofc (look at his annotations on the genius page for this if you want to die inside) but he really feels like he's trying to improve. for the first time ever i feel like he's *not* convinced he's better than everyone else and i feel like that allows the band's emotional core that was bleeding through previously on "robbers" "sex" and "somebody else" to finally just soak the whole album
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Album Rating: 3.0
That AWL piece is literally just a dodgy projected awkward fanfiction. Where are these people?
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‘Sensitivity of a rockist’
Was this bait for me because if it is I’m too dense to understand :/
If the rockists think Dirty Computer is generic garb they sound pre cool tho
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