|
User
Reviews 20
Approval 100%
Album Ratings 449
Objectivity 54%
Last Active 03-06-14 1:56 am
Joined 08-19-12
Review Comments 585
| 8 Albums For Night Driving
It seems the right time of year to go on long aimless drives through the city alone, to reflect or whatever. Or to drive into the city to escape cabin fever, or whatever. Anyway, although these albums are vastly different, I feel that they all fit nicely into the darker part of the day. | | 1 |  | Mogwai
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
These first 2 seem best suited for the arrival, at the beginning of the evening. Probably with a large group of people, to take the city by storm.
Hardcore Will Never Die... is Mogwai at their most driven. What I mean by that is that the songs exude this energy that feels young, and ready to take on the world, as opposed to the methodical and slow-building works of their previous material. Songs like Mexican Grand Prix, San Pedro, and George Square Thatcher Death Party seem as if they were made for the intro for some indie film that starts off hopeful, but inevitably leads to great introspection and sadness. | | 2 |  | 65daysofstatic
We Were Exploding Anyway
We Were Exploding... however, is severely bolstered with electronics, and that gives this album a great density of sound. This one feels like the drive up to a rave, like you're just about to get shoved into a pit of ecstasy and bodily fluid, but that's all you want, and it'll be blissful whenever you finally reach that cascade of light and many, many drugs. | | 3 |  | Beach House
Bloom
The next five are more suited for driving alone, and thinking about your life decisions.
Bloom feels like midnight near the end of summer of your senior year of high school. It makes you harken back to all the memories you made with your friends, enemies, acquaintances, etc. during the easiest, but most emotionally confusing time in your life. It's hopeful, but with a lining of regret for things you didn't do. | | 4 |  | Steely Dan
Aja
Aja is a more advanced nostalgia. It reflects upon an entire life, not just a snippet. Your life isn't filled with regret necessarily, but you still remember all the choices that impacted your life in a major way, and ruminate on how things might have been different. Aja is for the old man in all of us. | | 5 | | Sigur Ros
?g?tis Byrjun
This one feels like you're lost, perhaps you finally made your way out of a string of terrible circumstances that has left you jaded and unsure. But while you may have no direction, you know that things will get better, as long as you push on through the night. | | 6 |  | Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
Sunset Mission
Sunset Mission is for when you've just come down from that euphoric heroine high you've been searching for. Now you must wander the streets in search of the next one, never ceasing until either the goal is attained or your life is ended. You'll continue to spiral down this path until you're sharply woken up from this state, or you fade with the night. | | 7 |  | Rosetta
Wake/Lift
Wake/Lift feels as if but a few moments ago, you made the choice that will change your life forever. Perhaps murder, maybe your first drug deal, whatever it was, your world is now consumed in darkness, a suffocating one. You feel like the entirety of the universe is pressing down upon you. You keep remembering how well your life was going and how you can never have it again. | | 8 |  | Palms
Palms
This one is for the moments before darkness turns to dawn. Whatever may have been troubling you throughout the night, today is a new one, if you reach out to seize it, you can take control of your own destiny, and that's a hopeful thought. Make the most of what little daylight you may have, it could soon turn to blackness. | |
Greem
12.15.13 | feature | lyzakthellama
12.15.13 | Bohren for sure | ShitsofRain
12.15.13 | add bansheebeat | Pheromone
12.15.13 | I'd also add Massive Attack - Mezzanine | Mookid
12.15.13 | dj shadow-endtroducing | BigTuna
12.15.13 | everything by The National | demigod!
12.15.13 | Mezzanine, srsly Mezzanine. Also Dummy | Pheromone
12.15.13 | Mezzanine is the type of album you can only listen to once a month but every time you listen to it, it sounds refreshing. | ShitsofRain
12.15.13 | well put | Greem
12.15.13 | Untrue | BeneaththeDarkOcean
12.15.13 | ^I don't even like Untrue, and I think it should be on this list. | Artuma
12.15.13 | russian circles | Realm
12.15.13 | if i listened to sigur ros while driving id probably fall asleep and kill 5 people
bad things happen GUYS | Realm
12.15.13 | you put their good album tho it's ok | KILL
12.15.13 | aja is so class1c | Calc
12.15.13 | It's never a good time a drive aimlessly around, gas is expensive. | KILL
12.15.13 | yea some people enjoy it crazy i know | Calc
12.15.13 | I can't fathom it kill I really can't, might as well set fire to 20 bucks while increasing your chances of dying by like 70% | KILL
12.15.13 | depends what car you got i mean if i had a porsche 911 i'd be wasting gas like crazy you know but i also wouldnt be listenin to steely dan i'd be jammin that flat 6 pipes of god | Calc
12.15.13 | well of course I tried to be as middle of the road considering what people would normally drive and how far they'd go. Also if you're listening to Bangerz you would drive much farther than if you were listening to 2112, i mean come on right? | anarchistfish
12.15.13 | Still Corners
| RivalSkoomaDealer
12.15.13 | Tool - Lateralus is one I go too quite a bit for night driving. | Voivod
12.15.13 | Anything from Wooden Shjips and Burial. |
|
