Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

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Album Rating: 3.5

let's predict dev's rating



i say 3

it's 4y. probably right outside my top 15 for the yr.

Album Rating: 4.0

This album has tons of weather samples (always a plus with me), that Lana speech sample and sounds like it is a recording of a recording process. I am digging the shit out of this.

Album Rating: 3.5

some of the atmosphere on come down to us is perfect. makes me feel like i'm in a rainy night time city but IN THE FUTURE

Album Rating: 4.0

Walking down the streets during a rainy moment in the future is my favorite pastime.



I also noticed that "Rival Dealer" samples "Jing Ling" at 7:29-7:36.

sexuality-centric vocal samples are both devastating and life-affirming

i like this.

Album Rating: 4.0

Actually, sniper, in Lana's case it is gender identity-centric (and it is taken from her speech at an important event).



I think this album really is one of us those albums-the kind which are affected greatly by the listener's personality. I am really chill and like listening to stuff that can be unobtrusive while I am working and enjoyable when I go out for walks.

Album Rating: 3.5

who the hell is lana?

who the hell is lana?

Album Rating: 4.0

Wachoski.



Bound

The Matrix Trilogy

Speed Racer

Cloud Atlas



That Lana

good point, lioness.

Album Rating: 4.0

i predict a Dev 4.2. kind of a sensible middle ground between the tentative appreciation of the 2.5-3.5s, and the Pitchfork BNM 'best Burial jams since Untrue'

what gets me is how people who love burial don't like this. especially people who are saying come down to us is meh. i just don't understand

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't see why anyone should ever take P4k's opinions on anything seriously. They have a habit of hyping the crap out of average shit.

i love how you people generalize pitchfork like it's ONE person writing music reviews, instead of the team of writers it is with varying opinions.

yeah i really like this, i would put it up there with kindred/untrue based on ~4 listens. we'll see how i feel in a year, but i think this is really a strong release. i've never minded a little bit of fragmentation in music though. this is interesting because even though i can understand why people would say it's too scatterbrained to form a cohesive statement, i think the sort of freely floating approach here is probably what makes it feel so sure-footed to me. might be just a bunch of semi-related ideas patched together, but the theme here is definitely self-discovery, so i think the approach is fitting.

basically, unity of theme and musical approach is nice to hear.

Album Rating: 4.0

i'm not familiar enough with the site to distinguish between them. for me, some reviews i've read there are great (they put me onto Julia Holter's new album). others are all over the shop.



the worst review I've ever read was a Pitchfork Coltrane review though.

pitchfork never talks about the music enough, everything always has to be about what the artist/album means to the scene. they care more about things being "important" than they do about them being good. the writing is generally pretty good, and they often talk about details i would never learn about otherwise, but i don't generally like their style.

Album Rating: 4.0

i put it a tad below Kindred and Untrue, but otherwise agree Sniper, based on my 2 listens. Truant/Rough Sleeper I saw as fragmented but it didn't make me think any less of it.



Burial is unique to me cos I don't mind this EP/single approach at all. normally I favour LPs but these half hour-ish EPs are great.