Album Rating: 4.0

Sadness as a Gift feels like a pure and timeless folk song I love it

Album Rating: 5.0

Ima put way too high expectations on the new one if I listen now, this was too good to follow up

Album Rating: 4.0

i’ve never heard this one but the new one is one of the best folk albums i have ever heard

Album Rating: 5.0

Well goddamn, consider my pickle tickled

This was too good to follow up, but the new one doesn't really attempt to - leaves this one's mystique and most of its fragility behind and takes a much earthier tone

Album Rating: 5.0

I am liking what I am hearing about the album that I want now to hear

It is good
But much less consistent and not nearly as special as this as a whole (individual tracks are on a similar level though)

I don’t really like her piano stuff? I always thought “mary” was boring.

Johnny Colton peep tomato flower it’s not like that good but let’s convene

The soundoff is incredible. Chastising a band for too closely emulating a dated formation of a band you guess they probably sound like

I was never a big Mitski fan, to begin with, and this new album from her is not changing that in the slightest. This album is a straight-up sonic mess. Most of the tracks on here have no cohesive structure to them and her vocals don?t pair well over any of them either. It?s like she wanted this to feel like a synthesizer version of a Julia Holter record but had never listed to Julia Holter or classic synthpop. The only saving grace is the newer wave tracks at the very end actually are tolerable to listen to, but otherwise, I can?t really sit through this.



(will peep)

Album Rating: 3.5

Julia Holter

Album Rating: 4.0

as I say all the time, the extent of a lot of people’s ability to discuss music goes no further than just obtusely comparing it to the first thing they think of that sounds vaguely similar to them

so far this tomato flower album sounds a lot more like a drunk Laetitia Sadier cosplaying as Bridget Jones over a handful of Deerhoof b-sides and i a) do not love it lol, but b) am deeply fascinated how anyone on earth could pull a ST comp out of it jfc
and the implication that such discerning input as "I think an aesthetic in music often takes an amount of conscious effort in creating" is remotely more insightful than an off-hand band comparison has me shaking

Album Rating: 5.0

Hey this album sounds like those big thief guys

Album Rating: 4.0

i think there’s a discussion to be had about an artist’s sound vs their aesthetic and and how someone’s artistic motivations and methods of expression alter the way the aesthetic is perceived. sometimes it’s directly woven with the core emotional sentiment of their music in a way that feels very organic and can often enhance the listening experience, particularly in a genre like folk (and particularly variations of it one might describe as “earthy) and other times it’s more of an affectation, which can also work but for distinctly different reasons than the reasons Adrianne’s music works so well

Album Rating: 5.0

I mean, yeah, as I said, it’s a bit big thief-y

Album Rating: 4.0

"the extent of a lot of people’s ability to discuss music goes no further than just obtusely comparing it to the first thing they think of that sounds vaguely similar to them"



this is you poppin in every other thread from artist/band you are just discovering

Surprisingly/unfortunately agree with Johnny that the first half of the new album is significantly better than the 2nd

Album Rating: 4.5

The guitars on "Sadness as a Gift" sound so much richer after that minimal opener. Also, the lyrics to "Real House" are incredible.