unfortunately big thief will always remind me of that one sordid affair in which i was recipient of tarot themed spotify mixes, desert solitaire, druidic brunch energy, mistakes miscalculations errors. same with vampire weekend and a host of other bands i’m happy to just let be. simulation swarm is great! that buck meek album hits at 5 am sometimes. and this too is quite fine! just can’t quite escape the Great American Indie religious paratext frequently imposed by anyone but the artist: one-liners handrolled into pillboxes for your health
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Free Treasure is so intimate and gorgeous that I almost teared up oh my god
Also Vampire Empire is fine, Evol is the kind of hippie faux profound navel gazing that always finds Adrienne at her absolute worst
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Album Rating: 3.5
Ruined is quite lovely
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Album Rating: 4.0
that was top two for me first listen
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"sadness as a gift" is very nice
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Album Rating: 4.5
seeing her play real house in person fucking broke me
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Last verse of Real House is the good good yeah
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Album Rating: 4.5
Evol is some gorgeous "hippie faux profound navel gazing" then
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm seeing her in June and really stoked to hear some of these songs
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Evol was one of my other notable "oh no"s for sure lol
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Album Rating: 4.0
Free Treasure is my favorite as of now. I agree about Real House, I think it works well as an opener and is objectively a good song but obviously not one I’m going to casually spin all the time. The aux cord is officially safe in my hands.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I have a hard time talking shit about Ruined, but it’s probably the least interesting song to me and I hate hate hate it when closers are released as singles
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Album Rating: 4.5
I don't ever listen to singles (besdies maybe once to check the sound) so I didn't even realize
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Album Rating: 4.0
I wish I had that super power
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Album Rating: 3.5
Ngl new one seemed very weak to me on first listen, then again I don’t really fw this or abysskiss as much as many others do so perhaps this tracks.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I thought it was only blues albums where the dog dies on the first song?
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Album Rating: 3.5
Ok never mind the new one is very good - still gonna need a few spins to figure how much I like what each song’s doing, but they’re pretty much all doing something.
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Album Rating: 4.0
it’s one of the best albums to come out in a long time. a huge achievement
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The first song is presenting a production issue to me: twice I got a weird uncanny valley feeling, from the scraped fiddle and her moving away from the mic. Somehow distracting because I know she’s oriented toward an aesthetic of raw mistakes but it’s starting to become too much an aesthetic
Love the verse about seeing your first scary movie
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think an aesthetic in music often takes an amount of conscious effort in creating and that song (and the whole album) is very distinctly pure and earnest
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