a rare 1 from me. i listened to the most recent one after all the rave reviews and found it fucking annoying. generally quite interested in anything that gives me such a strong reaction. itās almost like i disagree with the whole aesthetic, the whole sensibility. really sounds quite american and in a weird way quite posh (very subjective obviously), hate that fancy show-off fast piano playing, hate that it sounds very thought through and organized into different distinct sections. actually contains a lot of the things that i hate about āpitchfork-beloved indieā in general. i kind of think that people who are into this kind of thing must be looking for a totally different thing out of music than i am, itās almost directly opposed to the things i like about music, deliberately does the opposite of what i want it to do. i say this meaning it very subjectively, not that my taste is somehow superior to anything else. though i sometimes wonder about the values this kind of sound is indicative of.
but i only listened to the first half of the album and only listened to it once, so iām not exactly talking about something i know much about. might give it another crack and see if iām in a better mood.
