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To preface this, something that will read completely out of context for newer or future readers, I’ve just hit my 200th post and am nearing my 200th album. While this blog started as an idea to visualize what I’ve been listening to, I would be remiss (not remised, grammar fucks, I googled it) to not
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Let’s get this out of the way – Vulfpeck is an all white funk band. AKA an oxymoron, and definitely an argument of the kinds of groups that perpetrate the Elvis taking from Little Richard kind of thing. While I don’t think it necessary applies to a band that is not that well known, it
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First things first with this review, we have to talk about the plays for this album. I knew Arctic Monkeys were big but what the fuck! This album has exactly 0 songs under 100 million plays on Spotify. In fact, only 4/12 songs on this album have less than 200 million – including three songs
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Turn on the Lights, like the recently reviewed Illinois, is another mid 00s critically acclaimed album that I had never heard of, from a band I had never heard of. This album certainly doesn’t break any new ground sonically – it’s very much so a rock record, albeit with a bit of quirks here and
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Arlo Parks’ most recent release My Soft Machine is the British artist’s sophomore album, following up Collapsed in Sunbeams – which not only received critical acclaim and a grammy nomination, but also received high praise from my blog, a crowning achievement. However, and I hate to do this to Arlo because I really liked Collapsed
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A gift from the Spotify recommended after a certain B.B. King album had concluded, Fenton Robinson’s 1974 Somebody Loan Me A Dime is a nice, laid back blues record. While it is certainly a bit one note, that one note is really nice, laid back, straight to the punch blues. Not much to say on
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From Sufjan Stevens to this is one of the most jarring sonic transitions that one can make. Now you may understand why my playlist is called Rabies Radio. However, they do have something in common. The full title for this King Gizzard album is – PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of
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Indie legend (supposedly? I had never heard of him) Sufjan Steven’s critically acclaimed 2005 release Illinois certainly sets the trend for a lot of the sounds that you here out of Indie Rock today, and also seemingly set a vocal trend as well as you will listen to Sufjan and it will remind you of
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Hello to all my subscribers – June tiers are up (right on time) – as the blog begins to catch up. I’ve officially crossed the mid-way point and am nearing album #200 of the year. A question for you all – any interest in mid-way recaps? Top 10 favorites? Worst album? Most confusing listen? Who
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Welcome to the first month’s album tiers, each album categorized and given a one sentence recap. Full blurbs available on the new listens page, and monthly wrap-up playlist on main page under playlists. June’s Playlist. Fucking Great/God Tier: A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory: As if it could go anywhere else. Aretha Franklin
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