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cirq
March 25th 2011


9362 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

ill pay attention

cirq
March 25th 2011


9362 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

liar.

thebhoy
March 25th 2011


4460 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

solipsism is more especially meaning the philosophical strain of thought on the extreme side of scepticism which suggests only the self exists or can be proven to exist. Ie. I am the only one who exists and everyone on this forum right now is a construction of my mind. I mean, yes the secondary definition is correct to what Conrad is saying but I don't know if it's the best word choice but who cares really cause it's a good review. K I'm tired peace.



Also, I heard two songs from this and liked it 5/5

conradtao
Emeritus
March 25th 2011


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

that's true, keelan, and that first definition could apply but it'd be a bit more questionable. i considered writing "self-righteously solipsistic" but that seemed clunky and ultimately meaningless

Calculate
March 25th 2011


1135 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

this is so fuckin smooth fuck

balcaen
March 25th 2011


3183 Comments


update: this is niiiiice. can't get enough of the fat gritty bass on wicked games.

gets a little cheesy at times though, probably won't work its way into a 4 for me.

Kiran
Emeritus
March 25th 2011


6133 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

smoother than a tiger in a tuxedo but some of the lyrics are a bit cringeworthy

cvlts
March 25th 2011


9939 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

never knew hipster r&b existed.

DocSportello
March 25th 2011


3380 Comments


i don't like the cover. is this worth checking out, like, for realsies?

Manic_
March 25th 2011


447 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

only problem i have with this is some of the lyrics but for a mixtape this is really good

Hawks
March 25th 2011


88603 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I gotta hear this.

Curse.
March 25th 2011


8079 Comments


"You said this would be a happy house"







Thank you BR

Aids
March 25th 2011


24512 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

to everyone who has this at a 3.5



keep listening, it will grow on you.



shit is soooooo cash



"got the walls kickin' lke they 6 months pregnant"



fuck to the yes

illmitch
March 25th 2011


5511 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

kinda split on this



part of it is really good



and part of it sounds like if the hipsters who made witch house were really into r kelly instead of dj screw

conradtao
Emeritus
March 25th 2011


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

never knew hipster r&b existed.



tom krell would like to have a word with you.

conradtao
Emeritus
March 25th 2011


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

shit, I just realized that I spelled Amy Winehouse's name like "Amy Whinehouse"

Inveigh
March 25th 2011


26879 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

excellent review, a joy to read. also helps that I agree with pretty much everything you're saying : )



just one thing though:



this day and age of desexualized, mass-marketed product


seems to me that a lot of mainstream music is more "sexualized" than ever -- not necessarily that it's more sexy, but in the sense that the artists are trying SO hard to be overtly sexual that it's much less effective. I'm assuming that's what you were going for?

alachlahol
March 25th 2011


7593 Comments


do i have to be sitting in a starbucks to enjoy this

conradtao
Emeritus
March 25th 2011


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

No, actually, it isn't. Well, maybe it is...let me try to expound on it a bit.



You'd be hard-pressed to find any genuinely exciting or "provocative" sexuality today in pop culture. We're desensitized, in a sense, which is sort of what you mean, but also we've trivialized sexuality. We've pared it down to nothing but a bunch of superficial signifiers, if you will. That's not sexuality. That's manufactured sleaze.

conradtao
Emeritus
March 25th 2011


2090 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

In addition, the rise of the "tween" market has led to a huge amount of painfully chaste pop, just "racy" enough for the kids to be interested and safe enough for their parents to approve.



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