Finding this pretty painful to get through, haven’t really disliked a US Girls album before but she sounds out of ideas
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Oh the mix on this is just delicious. What a sound.
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Glad it’s not just me, gave it a listen and first impressions were like “Didn’t I used to really like her music?”
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Yeah, gave it a play.It wasn’t good sounding like Texas b sides.
I was going to share this myself yesterday…but I don’t think it’s available to stream yet? So maybe just a physical release at this point…
That’s a real shame, especially as she really hit her stride with Half Free and, to a lesser extent, In A Poem Unlimited. Haven’t really listened to her work since Heavy Light, and, based upon the reaction to this new one, I don’t know if I’ll be tempted to change that.
A return to the minimalist noise of her early releases?
I feel like they nailed this sound on their previous record, but the songwriting on this one is significantly better.
Little Mazarn - Mustang Island
Saw this posted by Friendship, nice bit of folk
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This sounds so much like early 90s Saint Etienne, in a good way.
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I bounced right off it on first listen. Must give it another go.
There’s a bad way?
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She said that Saint Etienne “has been one of my favorite bands lately, and they sample a lot of old tunes to get these beautiful orchestral movements. I tried to achieve that kind of sound using string synths with lots of tape emulators and distortion to get that old grit.”
The album could have sounded like a copy of a copy, especially as some of the drum loops are so familiar, but it’s a great reinterpretation, I reckon… Saint Etienne vibes but more dream pop.
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This is good! I’m a fan of Carrying and initially feared that an album of folk drone instrumentals might lose what I enjoyed about her previous works, but no, it’s a perfect soundtrack to a slow sunday.
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This is gorgeous!! Thanks for sharing.
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Absolutely loving this, feels like elements/vibes of Foxbase, So Tough, Tiger Bay & even Good Humor.
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Ah yes. Having a whale of time with this today.
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BAMBII - Infinity Club II (EP)
If you need a 24 minute blast of jungle fun, here you go.
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Was about to say “damn, another album so soon after the last one”, but then realised I was thinking of BABii
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The Bug Club topped last week’s poll, with a tie for second place between Half Man Half Biscuit, Lyra Pramuk and Witch.
What was good this week?
- Alex Freiheit and Aleksandra Słyż - GHSTING
- BAMBII - Infinity Club II
- Biosphere - The Way of Time
- Black Helium - The Animals Are Coming
- CASTLEBEAT - Revival
- Che Noir - The Color Chocolate 2
- Coma Cinema - Grand Delusion
- Dawuna - Love Jaunt
- Domenique Dumont - Deux Paradis
- Facta - GULP
- Ghais Guevara - The Other 2/5ths
- GoGo Penguin - Necessary Fictions
- Goat Girl - Below The Waste (Orchestrated)
- Greg Foat + Forest Law - Midnight Wave
- HAIM - I quit
- Haress
- Hiroe - Wield
- Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
- Introspekt - Moving the Center
- Isaiah Hull - POCOMANIA
- James McMurtry - The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
- Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Different Rooms
- Jess Kerber - From Way Down Here
- Life in Mono - If I Could Sleep
- Little Mazarn - Mustang Island
- Loyle Carner - hopefully!
- Lukah - A Lost Language Found
- M John Henry
- Matmos - Metallic Life Review
- Matthias Puech - Cabanes
- Mattilyn Mattroe
- Milc & Spinitch - Run For The Arts
- Naemi
- Nathan Salsburg - Ipsa Corpora
- Neggy Gemmy - She Comes From Nowhere
- Nídia & Valentina - Estradas (Versions)
- OSMIUM – OSMIUM
- Robert Dallas Gray
- S.G. Goodman - Planting By The Signs
- SOPHIE - Product
- Sally Anne Morgan - Second Circle The Horizon
- Shiran & Bakal - Electro Baghdad
- Siobhan Wilson - Summer EP
- Skjolden - Insouciant Metaphysical Grandeur
- Tan Cologne - Unknown Beyond
- The Black Dog - My Brutal Life 2
- The Feelies
- The None - At Hope/In Civic Pride
- The Sick Man of Europe - The Sick Man of Europe
- Tropical Fuck Storm - Fairyland Codex
- U.S. girls
- UNIVERSITY - McCartney, It’ll Be OK
- Various Artists - fabric presents Pretty Girl
- Water Machine – God Park
- Yaya Bey - do it afraid
- Young fathers 28 years later ost
- ZÖJ – Give Water To Birds
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Don’t think I was that fussed with anything last week unfortunately. Here’s hoping for a nice busy end of the month Friday tomorrow!