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YoYoMancuso
Emeritus
March 24th 2023


19776 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Tyler uses way too much vibrato on her voice sometimes, i think May might be my favorite of the "new vocalists"

JohnnyoftheWell
March 24th 2023


64287 Comments


White Dress alone is more notable than any song this band has ever produced, for better but mainly for absolute worse
this band might be a-grade meme artists, but they will never be able to compete with downatthemeninbusinessconference
live album is painfully unremarkable 3 songs in

Rowan5215
Emeritus
March 24th 2023


48447 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

lol bet



also tyler >> may >>> lewis but they are all adorable

Rowan5215
Emeritus
March 24th 2023


48447 Comments

Album Rating: 4.4

look at what we did together lana del rey friends forever

tectactoe
March 24th 2023


9228 Comments


Is there a sinusitis epidemic in England?

YoYoMancuso
Emeritus
March 24th 2023


19776 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

main drawback of lewis singing is that he cannot sing and play the bendy sex whistle at the same time

GhandhiLion
March 24th 2023


17793 Comments


The pop music Lana Del Rey is making right now feels unattainable, like you simply have to cock your head and admire it through glass. Who is this person casting Sun Ra and Kings of Leon in a similar light? Who is using an Orlando business conference as a catalyst for Proustian reverie? Who is whispering these chipped-paint choruses so high in her register that they are impossible to sing along to? Who are you? is a question that has dogged Lana’s entire career, a question her songs answer mythically, cryptically, truthfully—sometimes all at once.

This is what happens on “White Dress,” co-written by Jack Antonoff, a delirious highlight from her album Chemtrails Over the Country Club. Lana—a goth who wears all white in an attempt to be the most goth—is our melodramatic tour guide through her past, our “waitress/white dress” near-homophone queen. Sure, it’s a trip down memory lane to a simpler life before all the tabloid brouhaha, but when she sings about how waiting tables “made me feel like a god,” it’s as if she’s staring into a swirling cauldron, casting a spell to deify herself once more

JohnnyoftheWell
March 24th 2023


64287 Comments


is tyler the one who sings on I Won't Always Love You bc if so yikes yes that is not a comfortable performance
it is raining and hailing and shitting dogs today England is doomed

JohnnyoftheWell
March 24th 2023


64287 Comments


"near-homophone queen"
and it was such a scene

Purpl3Spartan
March 24th 2023


9526 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

And album of some time for sure

Colton
March 24th 2023


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

her new album is legitimately album of the year right now lol

Colton
March 24th 2023


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

"has Lana had a single noteworthy song on the 11 albums she's released in the last 3 years"



yes several

JohnnyoftheWell
March 24th 2023


64287 Comments


"her new album is legitimately album of the year right now lol"

am seriously considering not listening to it before reviewing in hopes that this might be true

Colton
March 24th 2023


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

it kind of recontextualizes a lot of her career actually

GhandhiLion
March 24th 2023


17793 Comments


" is legitimately album of the year right now"

Are you talking about your preferences or is metacritic etc blowing it?

Colton
March 24th 2023


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

no it's actually really good. sputnik will only hate on it in vague allusions to meaningless conceptual wrongdoings they've been clinging to since 2012 and nothing to do with actual music

Sinternet
Emeritus
March 24th 2023


26909 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"haters also having to decide whether to dedicate their energy towards hating new Shonen Knife or new Maneskin"



wait who's hating on shonen knife wtf

JohnnyoftheWell
March 24th 2023


64287 Comments


personally i have done little but cling on to shonen knife's meaningless conceptual wrongdoings ever since 2012

Zakusz
March 27th 2023


2134 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Man I will miss the vocalist on this. The new live set is nice but I can't get behind the new direction for vocals. Was the vocalist the main songwriter as well? Seems a lot of the "clever" has left the band as well

RosaParks
March 27th 2023


930 Comments


not as good as Emotion



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