This is a fucking masterpiece. [2]
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Album Rating: 4.5
You're never wrong tecbro.
Seriously I had this shit on repeat all day.
Mothers of invention fronted by this beautiful soul? Tears.
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Don't forget to check out LORCA, if you haven't already. Not quite as spastic / energetic / "off the wall" is this, but incredible in its own way, very moody and foreboding, a hypnotic and almost anxiety-driven venture.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This was a pretty unexpectedly wild choice for early Sunday vibes, but I wasn’t totally displeased with the results. Requires further investigation
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Album Rating: 4.5
Song to the Siren is unbelievable, blimey!
This hit me really hard in the dark of night.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Tbh I think Lorca being slightly more consistent than this makes me prefer it
But this still good
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Album Rating: 4.5
if Lorca is better than this then holy moly
Shall I check that one next?
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Album Rating: 4.0
Better is subjective, but it’s definitely worth a listen imo
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Starsailor, Lorca, Happy Sad, and Goodbye & Hello are all essential, imo, and roughly in that order (also imo). This vibes and wilds out but LORCA is more brooding and moody and a lot of people prefer that.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I won’t tolerate Greetings From L.A. slander
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No slander. It's...fine. (Would not consider it "essential" tho.) Apparently I'm fonder of his self-titled debut, according to my ratings anyway.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This album is almost perfect up until the t/t which I’m not clever enough to understand. Also, even tho I do enjoy it in isolation, Moulin Rouge feels far too erm "refined" and a misdirection to really fit comfortably here. The rest is kinda neurotic and unhinged. If I squint hard enough I can maybe see it as part of a greater pastiche that dips into many personas idk. It just feels weird.
Song to the Siren is genuinely unbelievable. The bookends are really great (opener is perhaps #2 or #3 overall). I love Jungle Fire, Monterey etc. So it’s an incredible album overall (hence “excellent”), I’m just struggling with a couple of things that would put it over the top.
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Album Rating: 4.5
"I'm not clever enough to understand."
This is how I feel when I listen to Lorca
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Neither of you are giving yourselves enough credit.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Lorca's t/t does the whole surrealist anxiety thing pretty well
after that it admittedly lost me a little. It's certainly not an obviously "striking" album, especially when compared to this one
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It is far moodier and brooding, tho. Definitely more cohesive, unless you consider the theme here 'coming unhinged' (which is a totally fair and reasonable takeaway). Both masterpieces imo, this one ranking a little higher in my estimation because of how unconventional it is/was, esp. for the time.
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah, it's moodier for sure. Quite a dialled-back, almost solemn feel. Picking out "moments" was difficult on the first run, but it might not be a moment kinda album. I will persevere.
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah, man can we just remove the t/t from this thing completely lol
turned it off last night in favour of some Nina Simone and you can guess at which point that occurred. It’s not as though the closing pair is bad either, in fact I enjoy them both to a degree, but it ruins the flow for me (despite the overall being quirkily all-over-the-shop to an extent, I find it grating. Next time maybe I’ll skip instead of attempting to get through it again)
I’d like to reiterate that up to that point it’s a hell of an album.
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Star Sailor (the song) is akin to the stargate sequence in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Jarring, and feels very out of place when you first experience it, but is ultimately essential to the overall arc. In many ways it’s the climax, a transformation toward the weirdness of the final two tracks. A bridge, a mandatory one.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Stargate Universe > movie > SG1 > Atlantis btw
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