Album Rating: 4.0
Rumpus Room is great, y'all are dumb and fking banned
Really unsure what to rate this atm, hmm
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The Grouper one rules.
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Album Rating: 1.5
'Jamie means this shit from the bottom of his heart'
this band are a musical face palm, think I get it now
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Album Rating: 4.0
hefty bet maybe
okay Rumpus Room is less good than I thought but that's only because Fuzz Gang Fight is phenomenal and comes right after. why is Angela listed as a feature? gonna rejam Forget and reflect on this
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Album Rating: 3.0
The best part of the album comes right after Rumpus Room aye, which does it absolutely no favours. I’m still quite sure it’s not actually a good song mind.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Xiu Xiu and "good song" doesn't square for me somehow. Like so much about this band is rejecting what's conventionally "good". The video for Rumpus Room attests to that pretty well imo
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Album Rating: 3.0
Nah, just because it’s not ‘conventionally good’ doesn’t mean it can’t be actually good. That sounds like an excuse to lavish praise upon some nonsense song-writing choices (which absolutely isn’t always the case with these guys, they have some genuinely great material).
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Album Rating: 3.5
i listened to knife play again (obv superior) and it makes me feel like i overrated this ... may drop to a 3.5 but it’s def a 3.7 at least so idk
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Album Rating: 5.0
See the thing is you should 4.5 Knife Play
And Johnny Angela’s listed as a feature for Fuzz Gong because that’s how they credited the other half of the duets for the record
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Album Rating: 3.5
this is great but i liked Basket of Fruit quite a bit more i think
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Album Rating: 3.0
‘i listened to knife play again (obv superior) and it makes me feel like i overrated this‘
Obvs yeah. Question is what did you rate The Air Force / Angel Guts? (Knife Play is still numero uno, probably).
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Album Rating: 4.0
@demon if the nonsense songwriting choices end up furthering their overall aesthetic and the aesthetic of the album, I'm probably going to vibe with them as honest artistic choices. I was really into Basket of Fruit for that reason, but I get why so many people hated it, it's borderline unlistenable at times.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Aesthetic is important, sometimes paramount, but the best artists strike a balance.
I’m not actually saying these guys always neglect song-writing in favour of aesthetic, they skirt the edges and maaaaaybe overstep the mark on occasion.
I guess what I’m saying is their best material actually manages to be enjoyable from a song-writing standpoint without neglecting the aesthetics (or most importantly, for me at least, atmosphere).
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Album Rating: 4.0
Demon you make no sense
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Album Rating: 3.0
Explain yourself. I’m gonna need more than that.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I don't understand what you mean in the last para of your previous post
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Album Rating: 5.0
Most Xiu Xiu records are pretty good on both of those fronts tbh
Like it sometimes feels uncanny in the songwriting when they go off into weird noise chaos, but that's because they'll set up the parameter of a traditional song and then undercut it as they go. This one feels like it holds onto those ideas of existent song structures even more solidly than they usually do
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Album Rating: 3.0
Their best certainly are.
Oh yeah, if anything this one could actually do with being a bit noisier/more chaotic.
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Album Rating: 3.0
so after being here for porc's review, is this a good place to start for Xiu Xiu? that back catalog is too lengthy for me to chrono this time around
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Album Rating: 5.0
Think it makes a pretty interesting intro, especially if you pair it with Knife Play
Not just because they're the discog bookends right now, something about this one for me felt like revisiting some of what they did way back there, in a brand new context
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