How Fucking Wizardry isn’t a single yet is quite amazing. Probably the title if we’re honest.
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Yes. Some lovely Harmonies. Powerful lyrics. Strings. Melodies. G funk. (I’m lying about the G funk)!
It’s a masterpiece.
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Honestly people if there was a download card inside I would’ve shared it with one of you but there wasn’t!
fuck the doubters
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I have tickets to see her at Elsewhere in Margate next month which is tiny, around 200 capacity (and ace - it is also a record shop). Half expecting that to get cancelled/moved given the coverage of the album and the size of the venue in her 2022 tour. Although I think she lives in Margate which might explain why she is playing there.
Going in.
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So good. So, so good
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Enjoying this.
Also made me want to dig out the first two Slow Club albums again
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On first listen this is fantastic. All the singles fall into place nicely. Not eclipsed the debut on a single listen but I can only see it growing on me more.
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Justice for Complete Surrender.
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Only at Fucking Wizardry and this is already brilliant!
I am patiently sitting at home waiting for Mr Postman to deliver my vinyl copy of this before I can give it a full listen.
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I am not a sassy person. In fact, I am very much the antithesis of sass – barely a month ago I fell off a small rock trying to glide down it and sliced the palm of my hand clean open. This morning I somehow cut my knuckle taking trousers out of a cupboard. I curse the very existence of curbs.
As such, I am predisposed to be cynical towards Self Esteem. Her whole image is pure sass, pure self-empowerment in a knowingly hedonistic way. Much of her social media content feels like an elaborate joke that I just can’t parse, like an inverse Ann Widdecombe.
So this album should not resonate with me at all. And without the constant toot-toot of the DiS hype train, I doubt I would have stuck it on this morning. But I’m very glad I did, as it’s brilliant – the songs somehow transcend all the swank and glitz, and just fucking slap.
For someone who’s far from her target audience, I think it probably helps, too, that her hyper-self-awareness is much more endearing and engaging in song-form.
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Not the critique I was expecting to read today
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baffling comments on the guardian review
why do people always have to broadcast their ignorance, “dunno who she is”
well now you do you dick
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Can’t find the tweet where he actually made this, but basically
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Yeah, this is really good actually - not quite all of it lands, but most of it does and assume it’ll get better with repeat listens. Singles work much better in the context of the album too.
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Always quite enjoy the disconnect between the average age/musical taste of the commenters and the stuff the Guardian cover. Also quite like how often Snapes just wades into the comments and calls out the bullshit - there’s never any nuance to any of their moaning, just “this is rubbish haha”
Thought this as a nice comment though:
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Oh. I’m a forty-something white male and I really like it. I’ve never quite understood how appreciation of art is dependent to some extent on your age.
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