I also concur

Album Rating: 3.5

I do not know what the fuck you mean but I'm all for the drug metaphor

Album Rating: 3.5

Why that particular melody?

I think it's mostly the raw timbres and the way he drums with the open hi-hat and picks at that guitar idk I mean it doesnt sound that much like Pavement or whatever but something about it just feels like the perfect little nugget of a genre (to me: indie rock), albeit a sort of bedroomy/all-one-person take on a genre. not to deprecate other indie rock but it's just soooo perfect. genre might be the wrong way to look at it tho, and it's probably hard to convince someone that xyz 30 seconds are The Culmination of xyz style

wish I knew more about how guitars worked but the best indie rock (for me, something like Any Other City [2001], which has my favorite guitar work on any album really) has this sort of raw but somehow also exceptionally "clear" tone on the guitar, where all the notes are really pronounced. weirdly enough it reminds me of 50s jazz, the effect: you're in the room with the musicians. it probably exists somewhere at the border of songwriting, timbre, and production (which on this album and often in indie rock is, of course, lo-fi). it just feels so classic to me instantly haha, and in a way that recalls listening to early bits of indie rock when I was 13 or whatever

From experience, this is a mushrooms/acid type of album. Trip out and melt into nature. Be one with the trees.

also love the effect of the iconic lyrics being shouted throughout "the glow pt. 2" very emotionally with the organ building and then it turns into an indie rock instrumental thing with no words to end it. something very compelling about that move, like he tired himself out and now the drums and guitars are gonna do the speaking. which, obviously, they can't. and yet...

I find it tough to rate this album because I Want Wind and The Glow are two of the most profound songs I’ve ever heard, but then it just feels like the album trails into nothingness... can’t even get to the end because the album becomes so loose and exhausting to listen to.

Are there songs near the end that match the brilliance of the two I mentioned?

a lot of people will say there are but I'm not so convinced. I'd throw "the moon" in there and make it a trio though (#normietake)

@noler nah nothing touches title track tbqh

once I was at a coffee shop and "i want wind to blow" was playing and I gave the barista a thumbs up and then he got to the "BRRAMP BRAMP BRAMP BRAMP" part and he and everyone else in there was like "hmm no" and I was sad

3/5 story, would recommend to other fans of the microphones

Those coffee shop folk are the real normies.

Slightly irritated with myself for writing that sentence.

And I’m listening to I Want Wind, whaddya mean by BRAMMP BRAMMP BRAMMP haha, the distorted drums near the end?

Folklore and that Chicks album are topping our best new music section right now we have no fucking leg to stand on in regards to coffee shop normies.

just the really loud part @noler that was bad onomatopoeia

I’m so impartial towards the T-swift album. I spent 15 minutes with it and thought this isn’t bad? But it’s also 1000% not my shit and I’m not gonna pretend it is for some cultural currency.

If the cultural currency of being a t-swizz fan had any value in your friend circle i'd feel bad for you anyway

Tell that to literally everyone in the folklore thread

People I know irl are the type of people that wouldn’t touch Taylor with a 10 foot pole.

Why? They know I feel bad for them

Album Rating: 5.0

"can’t even get to the end because the album becomes so loose and exhausting to listen to. Are there songs near the end that match the brilliance of the two I mentioned?"



I Felt Your Shape. It's a different kind of brilliance.



I'd accept that the first 4 songs are the album's peak, and that the rest fails to quite match up to it, although I kind of like that. The album is never as beautiful as its opening moments and the contrast between those few tracks and songs like (Something) -1 and Samari Sword or even The Gleam pt2 makes the latter few all the more harrowing and impactful.