When I got bullied at school my worst nightmare was my folks getting involved. If my mum had written a song about it I’d have died
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Did the same yesterday with Plunge. Sometimes you just need that next album to put things in perspective. Like you though I always liked it but it was so drastically different from the debut without being better, couldn’t rate it above 7/10 for a long time (though realistically it was more like 7.5). Initially felt like the new album was an improvement but now turns out they may be equal.
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can’t remember if it was the Quietus review or something else, but one reviewer suggested the long ambient track was the centrepiece, and I actually agree
pretty sure it was the Quietus one. either way, I found that review so good for priming myself/opening myself up to really connect with the particular sound and vibe of the album
this Fact review is similarly evocative
my go-to tune when I feel the urge is ‘Raging Lung’. had a double-take just now when I saw it was almost exactly ten minutes long. it’s so immersive it makes me wish it wouldn’t end
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can’t imagine what it’d be like if Karin was my mum
would probs rather they didn’t, but idk
guess it depends if your mum is a radical/transgressive/iconoclastic artist nonpareil or not
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She is
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bottom of the ocean:
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Karin might, I think, be the coolest person to have ever existed. Fucking love this album
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Also Plunge was spectacular and I won’t accept any other opinions
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Closing a song by repeatedly shouting “this country makes it hard to fuck”>>>>>>
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I thought it was actively awful and i like avant garde/experimental music. Felt like meandering over thought bollocks. I also love fever ray and the knife.
Just a massive L for me
This album is Good Music imho
Don’t even like the knife either
Well you clearly do, half of this sounds exactly like the knife
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Seems unlikely
Yeah a lot of this album really sounds like an updated version of The Knife’s old sound to me/the comeback synth pop album they could make but never would. With more modern production and more in line with left field pop of the minute. Part of the reason I like it so much.
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He isn’t wrong.
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Never am
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/checks ass eating thread/
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I might have posted this the other day, but it’s impossible to know without checking. I listened to STH again the other day. What an incredible album it it. I do have to skip the noise sections most of the time, but kinda see their purpose. The songs, though are utterly masterful, creeping and just keep on making their case.
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Never listened to them, so how would I know