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Last Active 01-10-23 12:44 pm
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 | Larry Heard Sceneries Not Songs Vol. 1
Well this is dreamy, sometimes housey, sometimes snessy, often synthy, and I like it. I have great nostalgic love for sounds like those on 3, those vaguely snes rpg type winds are yum. It's great reverie background, although of its merit in focused dedicated listen I am less sure. 3.65 | 3.5
04.21.25 |  | Narrow Head Satisfaction
This is a deeply okay record that borders on being good, but never quite gets there. The riffs are pretty catchy (see the fun 10 for one example among many), and the dreamy vocals sometimes work really well. But often they feel like they are overbearing and don't stop enough to leave the instruments space to breathe, whilst also being sometimes too moany or casual, lending an amateur rather than dreamy edge to the music. I think the band is strong instrumentally, and I'd be proud to be at their level, but there's just too much of those sometimes overly teenage vocals without the rest being ever truly stunning to warrant more than a 3.5 | 3.5
04.16.25 |  | Fleshwater Demo
Well this is promising. The distorted foundation is produced down to a grumble quite a lot of the time, but otherwise this is clean and a fun mix of genres with chino-tainted shoegazey dreamy vocals atop cool riffage and angry drums. I'm excited for the longer records, and for a demo this is greatly honourable. Certainly does its job of getting you to check out more. 3.7 | 3.5
04.16.25 |  | The Carrier No Love Can Save Me
I don't have as much love for this as others it seems, but it remains very cool, emotional hxc which to me evokes a blend of vaguely Defeater and Fall of Efrafa minus the sludge in their grandiose desperation expressed in angry fashion. Tracks are in order of enjoyment for me. 1 I'm fairly nonplussed about, 2 is great, 3 is slightly greater and an epic closer. I'd heard this ages ago, but it had not marked me all that much quite honestly sorry dedebro la bise 3.8 | 4.0
04.10.25 |  | Contention (US) Artillery From Heaven
Basically dedebro's soundoff. Short, sweet, bete et mechant, cool as bonks. The first half can almost entirely go in the gym playlist. I've gotta say past track 6 (non inclusive), I wasn't so convinced. It wasn't a matter of fatigue I don't think, just feel like the songs were less strong. Still a kickass short and sweet record tho. 3.7 | 3.5
04.10.25 |  | Fazerdaze Soft Power
I'm not unfazed, but I am not dazed either (lul). This is definitely tamer and a bit more electronically pop than its predecessor, but that's not really a problem. In fact, I really do enjoy when the sound gets very synthy, e.g. on 3 or even 5-6. But the vocals remain overly sleepy to make the whole sound explosive enough, I think. 1 sounds like Fazerdaze crossed with the Stardew Valley soundtrack and is quite cute. 3's my favourite in its best blend of the old and new sound. 6 reminded me a lot of Bilie Eilish and has a fun mysterious halloween vibe I guess. 7 is kinda weird but brings a welcome rupture. Nothing much else happens until the l | 3.5
04.10.25 |  | Kevin Yost One Starry Night
While for me this is largely background listen type music, phew does it do that well. On many occasions the bass is so groovy that it just grabs you - see 6, or perhaps 11. There is a lot of jazz influence here, perhaps most clearly in the closer, and the house foundation swings between bikinicore and hypnotic (perhaps most on 10), with sparse surprises away from that in e.g. 5 or the start of 8. Simple music on paper, but very finely crafted. 3.8 | 4.0
04.10.25 |
 | normaloctagon I hear ya, glad you enjoyed! nice El Camino soundoff also
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 | garas Heyho! Would you like some very chill ambient music? https://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=512098
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 | SlothcoreSam Yeah thanks, it needs more love around here. It's top tier 5th wave emo.
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| SlothcoreSam Yo bede, u need to check Mikey's new album. Wasted Space - Anyway, Anyway, Anyway. It's really good
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