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this album came out very recently and i checked it out on a whim and i dig it!
the artist has been compared to Kate Bush, but i don’t think that’s particularly accurate. feels more kind of 00’s indie-ish to me - brings up a lot of particular artists from that era without sounding exactly like one in particular (and having more contemporary production techniques). a lot of whispery ASMR-Y vocals tho kind of has the maximalism of stuff like Sufjan.
dunno why i’m having a holdsworth moment or two these days but i definitely am
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he’s looking upset because the script says he gets flattened by masonry in the next scene
somehow i’ve never known that yuko miyamura, known for her role as asuka evangelion’s voice actress, did a honest-to-god YAPOOS album. with jun togawa and susumu hirasawa writing credits and all
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i was thinking “i should upload my older brother’s old band’s stuff to youtube because you can’t find it anywhere online anymore” only to find out someone literally did upload one of their releases only 5 months ago just because they found the CD in a random thrift store
edit: tho it seems like the first song is fucked up on this rip. i have the mp3s of this tho if anyone wants them. i think my brother might be putting the stuff on bandcamp at some point in the future too.
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i really love this record, somehow my imagination (always musically important, but in particular a huge part of flegel’s work imo) and the recordings are perfectly aligned and it’s just a blissful listen
it’s almost all one song despite the constant genre switch-ups; somehow it feels like a record of variations on a theme, sometimes. the vocal melodies provide glue to all the style-hopping. and the emotional core of the record is incredibly potent
one other thing about this record that strikes me as interesting - the referential, nostalgic, nigh-hypnagogic quality of the general vibe is extremely functional in that it derails the typical “sounds like” judgment in one’s head, which i think ultimately opens up pathways to freer songwriting expression. it hardly feels like one needs to worry about how “similar” one’s song sounds to some other existing work in this context. not to say the record isn’t quite original in many ways - i didn’t hear any direct rips or anything - but the vaguely historical implications of reimplementation somehow stub those concerns for me and proximity to existing works is robbed of critical power
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minimal dnb… owns…
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premiering currently
I mentioned going to one of my friend’s concerts and being totally swept up by how great it was. These were the songs that she reworked:
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my favorite 60’s acid casualty album
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that is some good shiiii—
(stealth edit for content)
love how these two
mini albums
lean into two totally different vibes, but manage to sound distinctively like the artist (because she sings, obvvvv i know!), the concept (black <=> white) and album cover leaning into it as well.
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whole album been stuck in my head all week
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