TWIN FANTASY IS OUT! GUYS!!!!
New album and stuff. Listen to it and download it while maybe paying me money? Think about it.
i forgot where i found this but i feel like it belongs here.
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THIS IS WHY IM FRIENDS WITH YOU
AHAHAHAHAHAH FUCKING
I FORGOT THE BASICS BY NOW PLEASE GREAT MANGA-KA TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!!
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how do i block users from viewing my blog
this is important
Song Spotlight: “Bay of Pigs” by Destroyer
Some songs just seek out to destroy the concept. Songs that want to be more than songs. Songs that don’t want to ever be forgotten. These songs don’t just animate unexpectedly by accident, their 10 minute+ run times signal their intent. Bold gambits, surely. In my time on my quest for quality, only one song before has struck me in that way. It’s a strange feeling, running through a track like this for the first time and being unsure of what will happen next or even when the song may end. And then the excitement comes. You don’t want to run it back right away for fear of depleting the magic so early. But you have to listen to it again. And again. And again. Each time finding beauty in a certain nuance, appreciating the subtleties in the build-up. Getting to know it to the point where nothing’s new. But it never quite gets there, strangely enough. Naturally, the music world continues to push forward and you stop listening to start listening. But you know that it’s there waiting for you to forget so you can have a chance to remember.
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dear tumblr mixtape makers
designate one singular ‘album artist’ so that music programs don’t assume that 15 artists have decided to all have different albums with the same name
"It was excellent in the beginning but then all the weird sounds made me uncomfortable"
— my mom on james blake
background dancers on point
the new washed out single
is pretty boring!
“I have no idea what you mean. There was a glee club at Greendale, and their bus was driving on a rainy night, and a downed power line was hanging across the road, and the bus drove through it, and it sliced through the bus and decapitated everyone, row by row, so that the people in the back had to watch all their friends get decapitated, then they got decapitated, and then the bus drove into a pool of lava. And I guess the crazy thing is, the electricity from the power line somehow kept their nervous systems “alive,” so they could feel the lava. They didn’t escape the pain of the lava just because they didn’t have heads. They felt the lava. It was terrible but it was not metaphorical in any way. I would never be that petty and envious of another show’s popularity”
-Dan Harmon
“Tailor-Made” and “Sew, Darn, Mend” by Daedelus (2011)
Call me what you want but Daedelus’ live set on KEXP happens to be my all-time favorite live performance that I didn’t actually see live. While there are many conclusions that you can draw from that video, the overarching one is that this dude loves music.
Sadly, I feel that his original albums don’t exhibit the same divine panache as that performance. They either lock themselves into the same repetitive groove that isn’t as catchy as he thinks it is or are just plain average. There is good news though! The first two songs of his new release instantly remind me that the person from that video and the person who releases these albums are actually the same being. As soon as Tailor-Made starts, you are instantly in his world and subject to his musical whims. Now, in the case of some of his other songs, this isn’t always a good thing. But here, he is constantly moving, constantly creating and constantly deconstructing without a hint of predictablity. And this is when he shines.
After everything fades away, the blare of a horn and the strumming of a guitar introduces “Sew, Darn, Mend”. Now, there are times in music where the first two tracks of an album I consider inseparable, but oftentimes that’s just because they directly link into each other. No deliberate audio link is made here, but “Sew, Darn, Mend” has an organic analog feel versus the densely electronic layers and textures of “Tailor-Made”. It just feels right to pair them together as two halves of the same coin. It still has that unpredictable Daedelus flavor and electronic elements but the use of an actual drumset really makes the song for me.
I’m not going to go over the rest of the album. That’s not a statement on it’s quality but rather a statement on how much I dislike writing for a non-audience. The album’s good though. Check it out.
