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#266 - Sigur Rós - Starálfur
on the pretty side of pretty boring
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#318 - Mice Parade - Logic (Part 3)
pretty yadda yadda yadda
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#10 - Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight
Must admit I’m completely out of my depth when it comes to “post-/modern- classical” but this is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed, in a totally incredible album; listened to The Blue Notebooks on repeat while reading Murakami’s Wind-Up Bird Chronicle which might be my favourite novel in the world, couldn’t have gone together better.
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#15 - Animal Collective - Banshee Beat
Really wish I didn’t spend so much time on the internet and have hyperawareness of every scene and buzzband and whatever, I think it’d probably be a lot easier just to consume music and take it at face value, and things would make a lot more sense. For example, I feel like writing about Animal Collective i’ve got to go on the defensive despite them being a pretty incredible band in a lot of ways; genuinely inventing and interesting, and have they’ve got a knack for textures more or less unparelled in contemporary indie, and the fact is they’re pretty diverse in everything they’ve put out, even the production on Strawberry Jam I love, really ballsy and abrasive and uncompromising.
Take Banshee Beat as an example; how many major indie bands can you argue take a fresh approach songwriting both lyrically and composition wise with instrumentation and production that’s really intricate to create an end product that’s actually pretty profound and moving. ‘bit drunk lol’
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#44 - Panda Bear - Bros
despite the obvious influences there isn’t a record on earth that sounds anything like person pitch
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#73 - Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
You know when the first five seconds of a record fill you with massive, massive, massive nostalgia? That.
Probably the schmindiest band i’ll ever love, but schmindie at it’s best.
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#272 - No Age - Every Artist Needs A Tragedy
idk if people get what I mean here but I really like it when bands sorta “announce themselves” to the world with a really great opening track on their debut proper. This does that.
happy easter everybody
