Ok gonna give this a spin, haven't got any synth pop album lifting my arm hair since Muna's "About You". Pls be good.
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Actually forget what I said. This is way more in line with Lowly's "Heba", which I strongly recommend you to check Sowing.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Ooh anything that sounds like this is fair game. Thanks Dewi.
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have to second heba. really awesome album. still life and no hands are 2 of my favourite songs of the decade
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Album Rating: 4.5
Well with a dual Dewi/Gyro rec I can't go wrong.
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Album Rating: 3.5
This definitely seems like a record that will unveil itself on future listens. I enjoyed it greatly my first two run-throughs, but it felt pretty homogenous. I’m hoping I can start peeling back more of those layers on subsequent listens.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think this is beautiful. Easily in my AOTY conversation.
*Looks at the rest of the site's scores*
Oh well :-(
Can't win 'em all
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Album Rating: 3.0
I quite like this, but I don't think a lot of it'll stick (with me). There's no lack of interesting ideas, but none of the songs (bar Hunker Down and perhaps Genuine to a lesser extent) are particularly well-written, I don't think, especially in the first half.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I like what the album is going for but not sure how much I’ll be tempted to come back to it. Think it would benefit from being a little longer and fleshing out its ideas some
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"This could very well be the pop album of the year"
it doesn't have hooks
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Album Rating: 4.5
Does pop need hooks to excel? Interesting debate.
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of course it does smh
honestly many records filed under art pop don't register as pop to me
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Album Rating: 4.5
is art pop, pop, then? I don't think that a genre can be irrefutably defined by the presence or lack thereof - of hooks. for example, folk bands like fleet foxes can write music jam packed with hooks - does that make them folk-pop, then?
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i define a pop approach as one oriented towards catchiness, typically through hooks or a prominent chorus. you can have a pop approach to any genre really. rock fans will balk at this but most mainstream rock is pop rock to me due to the reliance on a catchy chorus. there's elements of pop in most fleet foxes songs, so yes that tag works for them
a luci axiom: every genre is improved by a pop approach and diminished by a jazz approach
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Album Rating: 4.5
lmao I second that axiom
I can also get behind the general premise of what you're saying
So this shouldn't be hailed as a pop AOTY - what, then? Experimental AOTY? Experimental has always struck me as a shitty genre umbrella anyway. It's an adjective for the artist's approach not a type of music. Maybe this is Electro-Jazz-Pop?
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Album Rating: 3.0
correct genre is post-universitary
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i think art pop can diverge enough from the tenets of pop defined above that I feel uneasy placing it under that umbrella. so this would be art pop aoty but not pop aoty (this discussion feels like a ploy for me to call it aoty lol)
dream pop can run into the same issue (there's a controversy on rym where it's listed under alternative rock but not pop). most people would feel uneasy calling slowdive or yo la tengo records pop albums
relistening to this and it's clear that atmosphere and experimentation are the primary drivers, catchiness is tertiary if even a consideration
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Album Rating: 4.5
right, exactly -- I loosely (lazily?) coined it as indie-pop in my review, but regardless of what it is, the experimentation definitely felt like the driving force to me, particularly with the implementation/insertion of classical elements into a mostly electronic/ambient canvas
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I feel like 90% of Sowing high praise review albums don’t resonate with me, which is weird because I usually agree with staff and contributors
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Album Rating: 4.5
it's probably because I consistently push either folk or pop that no one else here likes lol
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