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Christmas Eve (Soul Purpose) by Blossoms is a great alternative Christmas song that I don’t hear enough people talk about. But my all time favourite Xmas song is Fairytale of New York.

first time i heard this i was on mushrooms and a buddy played the music video for all 3 of us. it was like the most visceral roller coaster ever, i was in the music and the video and it was one of the coolest things ever. cool song though its in my playlists now

Oh my God I love love love this record so much! Now at 48 years old, I’m a grump, I’m not closed off to new music, but a lot of new stuff is just dire especially pop. Not this album, it blows my mind!

Guess the powers were gone when they finally finished their role and moved on

They're coming to red rocks in April 2025. Tickets are less than $100 so I might just go. To be honest I think there's a lot of music that's best enjoyed live that I wouldn't necessarily listen to on repeat. But it's fun going to a concert and experiencing new music in that environment

Love the vids! Wondered if you’d give my music project a listen thanks icy snaps

Trans Canada Highway is my favourite work from them 😭

great album , even better live

What the F V C K are all you Normies styled like Eras we grew up in ?

you should get into autechre

Hi Scores is to me their absolute most perfect record. Bought it upon release date, even two copies actually. Wrote a review about it in a magazine straight away, speculating on their bright future. MHTRTC isamazing, but just a notch under Hi Scores to me, so an A. ABPOITC is the other one I put in your S category. Geogaddy and Tomorrow's Harvest are really cool, but just Bs. Campfire Headphase is the one they lost the plot for me, and really disappointed, so a D. The EP is to me almost dreadful so an E.

Great tier list! I've been a IDM fan for a hot minute but Boards of Canada has always been an 😳 blind spot. I love MHTRTC but that's the only album of there's I've heard. Keep up the good work!

Nice tier list, I look forward to seeing more in the future! Only thing I gotta disagree with is Geogaddi. Everything works for me and I think it's their most addictive album

It is much more difficult and of genius when you can make simplicity extremely beautiful and almost perfect. It is much easier to be overly-complex to try (but fail) to create feeling. I think many people also overlook Collier's lack of melody and tune so to speak. He cant write a good tune, simple as that, yet he can write brilliant harmonies and instrumentation blah blah which doesn't matter if the songwriting is poor. Another point- his productions sound so clean and I think hes a good producer, but the final product is like a cheap product (poor songwriting) in a beautiful premium box (good production). A final point- it offends me that this man is compared to the 'Mozart of our time. Jacob is a greatly talented musician, but Mozart was a pure genius for melody and for excelling and being the best for all genres of his time. Mozart's tunes live on for hundreds of years. I dare anyone to whistle a Collier tune and someone says 'oh I know that one. I guarantee, no one will.

the video of that soundtrack is impressive, how he was able to do it?

apex Twin brought me here

I think you pretty much nailed how I feel about the album. The music sounds cool but Bobby G's vocals are so lacklustre on half of the songs, the nadir (for me) being Settler's Blues. I think Holmes could have coaxed better performances or added more reverb/fx on the vox. Also a few songs contain lyrics that simply do not fit the music, and interesting juxtapositions these are not. Playing is top notch (nice one Innes!), as are the sublime arrangements. Better than Chaosmosis, not as consistent as neither Utopian Ashes, nor More Light though. 7.5/10. (and cheers for the review!)

Hope you live a long happy life 🙏

buddy come over and dagger's edge are some of my favourites!! just have to let them grow on you

Album of the year - I guess you need to learn something about music. Perhaps go away and stop bitching about one of the greatest artists of our time - go do something else. did the beatles have anything that wasn't just the same thing over and over, yes and those were the songs we loved. He is doing that exact thing time 100 - trying everything - if you don't like em - go away - I hear foot steps get your microphone. If you don't understand the concept of 100,000 voices then perhaps you don't understand being a human - maybe some meditation will help.

Will take few listens for me, Tyler is often confusing to me

His dislike of the album is fine I am just shocked he didn't look into the backstory of the record before giving a score he has only given like 16(?) times.

Honestly don't even think the illness needs to be part of the discussion at all. I watched the review with no prior knowledge of or exposure to the album and was still grossed the fuck out. It's just a case of "why say this about someone else" with additional undertones that, if not overtly misogynistic, hit very close to a misogynistic home.

In the desc, 4th song is HEARD OF ME

0:20 Anthony fantano???

i know ur talking about smth serious but boy u look so fine ❤❤❤❤❤

I love Fantano and have always been fine with his reviews, just being him explaining his subjective personal opinions well. One thing I DON'T enjoy about his (or anyone's) reviews is this shift into critiquing themes, artists' views, etc. Her being a "main character" should only be considered a negative if she expresses it badly. We're not supposed to review people or personalities but how they express themselves in art. Bad lyrics are badly written, not conveying things you personally find lame.

To me a 1/10 is the type of album never wanna come across again. You regret even giving it a chnace. Halseys album was by no mean revolutionary but a 1??? Idk there some underlying issues in his reviews. Idk if they are personal or general but man... really takes away a lot of his integrity as a reviewers

Talking about yourself doesn’t mean you’re the main character. Being the main character is thinking every problem and situation has to do with you and doesn’t happen to anyone else. It’s ok to make personal music but the way it’s expressed in Halsey’s music feels in a “bubble”. I don’t understand what’s so personal about critiquing that aspect. In my opinion, people take the lyrics super seriously because of the real life cancer, but in any other situation they would most likely come out of a Tones and I or a Tik Tok emo song. Saying that your life sucks doesn’t guarantee good music. If you want a musical example about the “serious” treatment of your own life ending, maybe check out David Bowie’s Blackstar.

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Yeah, felt like there's some personal spite there probably because of something happening behind the scenes. With u all the best with your health

One of my favourite albums of the year. Incredible ride 😌

Is visualizer music a way of saying I've run out of words!

Bro you sound like my teenage self. If you think the album is corny and boring you need to grow up! 😂 #lalalala

It's a shame Coldplay has fallen like this, specially after having great albums like AROBTTH and X&Y

Your opinion about Chris Martin is wild. He’s definitely not who you think he is

What I just realized with Coldplay is, they've become a band that creates excellent single songs but has totally abandoned the idea of making a cohesive album. Everything since Ghost Stories has good individual songs, each of which, taken on its own, is 7-10 out of 10. But, the albums themselves don't feel like albums. From what I understand, the place they really shine now is as a live act and experience. Since Viva La Vida, they haven't really tried playing the majority of new songs on tour. I think this is a struggle for many bands, but Coldplay has three separate stages live and they do four different sets. In this way, they can slot in the eclectic songs and make them work, but the albums suffer.

I know it’s an odd shout, BUT there is a new The Armed album coming out. If you gave it a listen, and reviewed, would adore!

Supposedly SOPHIE had the final track list set before her passing, she was also performing about most the tracks on the album in live shows so these were likely finished (intro, rawwwww, plunging asymptote, reason why, do you wanna be alive?, elegance, Berlin nightmare, one more time, exhilarate and my forever). Thee are definite problems with the mixing of this album (especially when compared to her previous albums), and the ‘SOPHIE spark’ isn’t quite there. But I think the album is pretty close to how SOPHIE envisioned it considering the only difference between the live versions of the tracks is (for the most part) mixing and pacing - tho some arrangements are missing from do you wanna be alive, elegance and one more time. I also think we held SOPHIE to an impossible standard, comparing this album to OOPUI. Even ‘Transnation’ the scrapped follow up album to OOEPIU was ‘safer’ and more pop/house rather than experimental…, and she was moving away from the heavy industrial techno in her live shows. I honestly would have preferred if the album was released in its unfinished state, or - since this posthumous album would be her last - perhaps a compilation album of fan favourite unreleased tracks (which we all listen to on SoundCloud anyways)

the album really fells like a supermarket background music but its not bad

Right… it’s time to play this ASAP 🤣

I don’t know what I was listening to when I was listening to The New Sound, but I hated it. :)

This album is just an overproduced, disjointed mess. I couldn’t stand to even finish it

Ur my favorite review of this album so far

For me, the problem is that "Reason Why", "Rawwwww", "Exhilarate" and "My Forever" are some of my favorite tracks by her and I've already listened to them 30530923 times since years. And it's probably the bangers on the album, so it quits some excitement when listening to the whole record. They're also the most finished tracks here and you can see the difference with all of the other tracks on the album. I guess it was how she planned it to be, risky and experimental, and it was so SOPHIE to do that. I know most of the techno tracks are an ode to german club culture and are meant to be minimalist but maybe it was too risky to mix it with the other more elaborated pop songs. It would have been more interesting to have 3 different EP's (pop, techno and alternative) like she did with Product. But I guess she wanted it that way and her brother respected her choice.

after repeated listens I kinda began to understand the concept her family was going for with capturing being in the studio with SOPHIE showing off some loops she made. But im still struggling with justifying why the songs are mixed as they are. I understand they wanted to capture SOPHIEs massive globular live sound, but the albums execution seriously muddles the tracks and removes her signature punchy sound. Im also fearful for the future of her unreleased classics in the hands of cornballs like Jimmy Edgar and LIZ...

Bit of a rant, sorry in advance I'm gonna be honest, when I first heard we were getting a new Sophie Album, I was immensely excited, 2024 has been one of the greatest years in music in a very very long time, and getting another album from her was just going to be the cherry on top of the cake,I didn't even seek out interviews or any snippets I just wanted to be surprised by it.But right as the first single released I was very cautious for this album, the song lacked that spark that made Sophie truly one of a kind, and just sounded like something you'd hear in a club produced by an undescript DJ. I was still a bit hopeful because sometimes the singles end up being my least favorite songs in the album and I was hoping that was the case. And then the album released.I've been listening to it and I just don't like it at all, it just sounds so bland and anemic, and it hurts me really badly to say it because I know her family put their heart and soul into this, but I think they should've just left the songs untouched and release them even in their incomplete form .Sophie fans(myself included) would've been ok with it In retrospect this album was always set up for failure ever since its announcement, it was touted by her family as the followup to Oils of Every Pearl's Uninsides, a once in a lifetime perfect 10/10 album. No matter what happened, it was never going to be the same type of album as its predecessor, I just wasn't expecting it to turn out this badly

Something interesting I found about this album is that the louder I turned the volume, the better the mixing got and only then did it seem to feel like a Sophie album-- It's like the whole thing was balanced and mixed at a really loud volume... Also, in my eyes, I think it is perfectly ok to rate and criticize a posthumous album but something that frustrates me to see is people saying "it is not what she would have wanted" as if they know what she would have wanted more than her own family that took the time to release and finish the album despite grief. Good review! I think you navigated your critique well.

only SOPHIE can do SOPHIE.