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(03/22/24 1:00pm)
When the pandemic happened in 2020, the whole world shut down. For the first time in existence, every human shared a collective sense of loneliness and isolation. In Rapture Waltz, Johnny Manchild captures his feelings of isolation and fear into a rock opera for the Poor Bastards 4th album.
(02/01/24 4:41pm)
Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards - "Fake Me Out"
(01/28/24 11:20pm)
This month marks fifteen years since the release of Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009. When I was only six and practicing addition facts in my first grade classroom, the indie scene was absorbing what has aged to be one of the most iconic psychedelic pop albums of the 21st century. Arguably their most accessible album (besides possibly 2023’s Isn’t It Now?), MPP is a more marketable angle on the sounds they explored in their 2007 album Strawberry Jam. However, some major differences include the use of a classic verse-chorus song structure and increased bass in the mix. Still, the band maintains their strange lyricism and avant-garde ambient choices throughout the album. Animal Collective creates a wall of sound throughout each song where each note appears muffled in whatever noise is already smothering the song. A fan favorite moment in any piece of Animal Collective’s work tends to be at the halfway mark of the opening track “In the Flowers” where the calm and tonally unclear first half of the song is essentially interrupted by a glamorous explosion of offbeat pulsating synths and drums just after the lyric “if I could just leave my body for the night”. The album then transitions into what remains the band’s biggest hit, “My Girls”. The pulsating synths continue and Panda Bear sings about just being able to provide a stable home for his wife and daughter, save material possessions. A less than obvious formula for an indie cult classic, but years later the shiny sounds and homey lyrics have stapled their place in the indie scene. My personal favorite track and top song of last year, “Summertime Clothes”, feels like the hysteria of a sleep deprived 2AM open highway road trip with the windows down to buy a milkshake with friends. Lyrically, it quite literally is with lines like, “it doesn’t really matter, I’ll go where you feel; hunt for the breeze, get a midnight meal.” The words oscillate up and down adding to the hysterical feeling but the message zones in after all the chaos of each verse saying, “and I want to walk around with you; and be here with you, we’re going.” The rest of the album continues with these musical themes and rhythms, opting to write about less conventional topics. The song “Taste” includes one of my favorite lyrics ever, “Am I really all the things that are outside of me? Would I complete myself without the things I like around?” Paradoxically the running theme of simplicity in many of the songs is covered by a noisy eclectic swarm of synths and noise. Every song here tells a story beyond just the lyrics. While many experimental bands trade meaning for a gimmick, Animal Collective uses their unconventional sound to add to the story of each song instead. Impressively, MPP only showcases one side of the band’s musical ability, but that said, it showcases their ability at a time when they were at a creative peak. If you are a fan of experimental pop music and haven’t heard MPP yet, I hope that you do soon. After fifteen years, its grandeur sound still captivates fans new and old.
(01/23/24 4:45pm)
10) Geese - 3D Country
(01/18/24 4:46pm)
Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards - Oh, Songbird
(11/30/23 4:50pm)
Destroy Boys - Shadow (I'm Breaking Down)
(11/16/23 9:13pm)
Chris Stapleton - Higher
(11/13/23 7:00am)
The Boston native punk/hardcore band transformed their sound into slowcore/emo and never looked back. The album is an underground masterpiece of the fledging slowcore genre and is one of Karate’s most popular albums. “There Are Ghosts” and “The Same Stars” are in Karate’s top three most streamed songs. It marks a shift in Karate’s identity from sound to members and perfectly leads into their most ambitious album, Unsolved.
(11/08/23 5:52pm)
Empty Country - Empty Country II
(11/01/23 11:20pm)
Diles que no me maten - Obrigaggi
(10/26/23 10:50pm)
Lost Girls - Selvutsletter
(10/18/23 9:02pm)
Geese - 4D Country
(10/11/23 4:03pm)
Slauson Malone 1 - Excelsior
(10/04/23 3:34pm)
Wilco - Cousin
(09/27/23 5:28pm)
Pot Valiant - Never Return - September 22, 2023
(09/29/23 1:00pm)
MRI is an album written by the artist VC Pines about his experiences with epilepsy and synesthesia. In May 2023, VC released "Colours" as a single. "Colours" is a big theme for this album, as the artist mentioned that due to his experiences he now visualizes sounds as colors. Shortly after this release, "Dangling" and "Running" were also dropped as singles. The genre of this music style is difficult to pinpoint but could be described as some type of electro indie pop.
(09/20/23 7:17pm)
Will Johnson - No Ordinary Crown - Sep 15, 2023
(09/13/23 8:54pm)
Sparklehorse - Bird Machine - Sep 8, 2023
(09/06/23 9:06pm)
(09/01/23 3:53pm)