No real standouts beyond Crazy. I much prefer the single version of Walkin After Midnight, too, but the album in itself is still really good. Just wish it had the power of those two singles.
Not sure how I found this but it's so great. The topic title describes this album as well as I could. Bursts and pops all over. Luscious bubblegummy pop _________________
first listen. i would probably have more to say had i actually posted when i listened to this, but like the other two of bjork i've heard (debut and homogenic) it starts off really strong and just goes downhill rapidly. but hyperballad is beautifullll omg and it's oh so quiet is my jam.
not a huge fan of this one. i liked the beats and atmosphere from time to time but the lyrics greatly detract my enjoyment, and the whole thing just dragged out eventually which resulted in an unpleasant listen. it's not bad, but probably not something i'll listen to again
this is a beautiful conglomerated mess. starts off with some abrasive-as-shit harsh noise w/ grindcore influences and just progresses into all-over-the-place glitchy bleeps and bloops. big big swede thumbs up
a very pretty ambient album w/vaporwave here and there. one of those albums that sounds like its artwork. an idyllic image of a sparkling lit-up tokyo, gorgeous soundscapes, liked it very very much.
this one had the same sort of mellowness to it, but it was a lot warmer. and it has a lot more crackly abrasiveness to it with a noisy lean. very impressed by both of these albums and they're a good cure for cold/tiredness/slight hangover.
every album today has been really really good, this being no exception. constantly but subtly progressing drony noise that is sometimes pretty soothing and sometimes, as the title suggests, hellish. much love.
To say I was underwhelmed by this one would be a bit harsh because if this was by any other artist I'd be positively surprised. With this being heralded as one of Ashley's best amongst Automatic Writing and Private Parts, I could do nothing but revel in the idea it'd be up to the standard of those. Although it doesn't reach the sheer shiver-down-spine rating that the former has or the insanely hypnotic qualities of the latter, this still has some of both. It's very easy to get lost in any of the three of Ashley's mentioned and he's just an all-round genius. Even if this isn't as up to scratch as the other two. _________________
It's arbitrary trying to define what is my favourite album of all time, really, because my tastes fluctuate too greatly to pin down a consistent #1. But if I had to choose my favourite at this very moment, it'd easily be this. Been very lazy to write-ups due to using my phone for all internet purposes since my laptop is broken, but I'll do it for Vashti.
To say this has an earthy, natural quality that isn't as easy to find in folk music (of the distant, not-so-distant, and near past) as one would hope isn't exactly a revelation to anyone that's already heard this. It's as pastoral as folk gets, really, for me - conjuring up emotions that lay deeper down in some sort of abstract connection with the protected greenlands of my home country. There's nothing like reminiscing of days trudging through muddy banks with my mother, father, brother and sister - me aged somewhere between 3-8 for when I can remember these sorts of days and when they also used to occur - and essentially this is a device to help paint that picture. Of course, it's a little more than rose-tinted glasses skewing my appreciation of the actual /music/ here, since it's really just my upbringing of beautiful days out in the prettier parts of England away from the suburban drag that is my hometown feeding into this emotional connection; Vashti sings of sweet, saccharine countryside tales - almost nursery rhymes by nature - and her voice is really quite something. But really what makes the album so special is the image it creates in my mind. I sometimes forget about the bigger picture when it comes to "patriotism", if this can be defined as that, as I look to my hometown as a source of representation of the entire country, but being reminded of the quaint, joyous places I'd visit when I was younger - be it little villages in Derbyshire, Norfolk, Yorkshire etc or of the more National Trust-y places (which, in my heart hold an even more special place) - I really would be a fool to say I didn't love the British Isles and all of the pretty little quirks hidden deeper within its smaller, lesser-known treasures _________________
A-side has some really nice orchestration going on and then the B-side loses all sense of "tidiness" in all the right ways, insane tribal chants that coordinate so perfectly
This gives me the same vibe as Jamboree which is kind of a good thing but mostly just means that it's an album that, at its core, has a lot of great ideas in its executing of sweet lo-fi twee but they don't really come out as well as you'd hope and the DIY production just hinders the overall sound. I like it overall, though, just not as much as I really hoped. _________________
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I don't know how appropriate it is to refer to gamelan singing as "tribal," seeing as the music is a formal music and has always been created in much the same way that Western formal music has - supported by large, centralized institutions in developed societies. Still, glad you enjoyed Golden Rain. I'll have to check out the Liu Tianhua. I haven't heard of it before.
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