5.0 classic |
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
Baby's first rap album. Between this and Low End Theory I had a pretty good introduction to rap music I'd say. Tip and Phife trade perfectly, Muhammad provides slick bass as always, production handled as tastefully as the lyricism and flows. Is there a better rap album? Probably. But I'll die to Electric Relaxation and I refuse to have it any other way. |
Art of Noise (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise! |
An album that wears its age on its sleeve in an incredibly perfect way. One of the more accessible forebears to danceable experimentation, it's honestly a lot of fun for how cheesy or weird it gets. Also "Moments in Love" is actually one of the most perfect songs ever, fuck the h8rs. |
Bjork Vespertine |
Burial Untrue |
Grizzly Bear Shields |
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
Jai Paul Jai Paul |
Julia Holter Loud City Song |
my bby and my life i often deeply sob myself to sleep using this albums sweet sounds |
Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness |
Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
Kate Bush is my wife and this album is sort of unoriginally my favorite of her offerings. Shit, when you got singles like "Running Up That Hill" and "Cloudbusting", the immaculately conceived ballad laden first half, and then the fascinatingly odd and experimental second half, it's hard for anyone to really deny this album of it's place in the musical canon. |
Nick Drake Pink Moon |
Shit, what can be said about this album that hasn't already been put infinitely more eloquently by others? Drake's minimalist downward spiral, as recorded on his lonesome and packaged in such a weird little sleeve, is an immensely personal recording, intimate to the level where you imagine Drake himself playing these little ditties by your side. But I mean honestly you could go on endlessly about why it's an undoubtedly and undeniably excellent offering to the musical canon, and everyone else has already done that better than me. Nah, I just really like it myself. My father used to play it in the car on trips to rwherever. My mind just swells with a younger me in the back of a car leaning against my carseat or my brothers listening to this album. I hadn't listened to this album for at least half a decade, and I decided to play it for shits and giggles. As soon as 'Place To Be' turned it's head, the 'ping ping ping's of Nick's voice forced up nostalgia as hard as any album I've ever encountered. Not only is it a pained picture of depression, it's also just flat out gorgeous, and the sheer sound of it gets me to tear up every once in awhile. If you haven't ever listened to this album you're absolutely wasting your life. Get on this shit. |
Owen Pallett Heartland |
This album is absolutely not a five: the mastering/mixing is fucked up especially on Pallett's voice; some songs drag or refuse to go anywhere interesting; conceptually it's somewhere between stupidly clever and prententious as fuck. I think I might be the only five on the site, and that's fair, it's not a classic addition to music for all of time. Since it's release, however, I've listened and rediscovered my love for Owen Pallett's Heartland time and time again. His soft tenor and violin virtuosity, his silly high fantasy obsession, the individual highlights to each song. It's just a perfect album for me. I'm absolutely charmed by it's flaws and highpoints alike. Ideally, it's a 3.5-4 depending on your appreciation of orchestral pop, but my personal attachment and my refusal to remove it from my ever changing iPod library basically surmise my personal 5 for the album. |
Paul Simon Graceland |
St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
The Antlers Hospice |
Sometimes when I listen to this it's a 5, other times it's a hard 1. It's a gorgeous album, but sometimes it feels almost forced in it's darkness. Still, it made me sob, and I have a personal rule of making anything that's gotten me to sob a 5. It's worth a listen I GUESS but only if you hate yourself. |
The Knife Silent Shout-An Audio Visual Experience (Live) |
FUCK FUCKIN CHRIST YEArYEAAAAAArshit's hype go watch it it's visually stimulating and aurally even more interesting than the two albums it uses songs from. it's worth experiencing if not as worthy as this hype i'm giving it. |
The Sound of Animals Fighting We Must Become the Change We Want to See |
I dunno. None of TSOAF's album releases /quite/ did it for me, with The Ocean and The Sun the closest to even being a cohesive album for my own tastes. But I've always enjoyed the concept and the gimmick and the music behind it all. The intensity of the performances, the all out approach to such a relatively small venue; it's all really a trip to watch and listen to. Realistically not a 5 for myself but I've watched and enjoyed it enough times for it to be. |
This Heat Deceit |