Memory keeper. Mostly music, some movies, series, video games. Obscure darkness meets pop culture glow.
The first EP I called ambient electronic, this one expands that with dubstep and moody melodies. Interestingly the track Taste of Metal was probably aimed to be a heavy hitting grime spitter, but listening to the vocal version I guess it’s lucky that the album features the instrumental one. No words are needed on this record, really. It’s much better as a music-only backdrop soundtrack for a dark room with dim light.
Quick make-notes of the letdowns.
The new Front Line Assembly album is boring. Actually there’s nothing else to say about it. Well, maybe that Jimmy Urine’s Rock Me Amadeus is just, whaaat the fuck. It’s a joke that I don’t dig.
And the new Ladytron record, I don’t even get that, it’s like a bad production. The tracks are half totally boring, half okayish. Strange choice of tracklisting so that it becomes more interesting in the second half. But the sound quality of the whole thing is just a mess, it sounds like some vintage vinyl listened through an earplug. I also have a feeling that probably I got tired of them in the absence since we last met and would not listen to it anymore if I came across it as new today. That’s a strange thought.
Current dose of punk rock. The album cover and the title track music video are just unfathomable bad, no excuse for that. But the music still rocks.
Note: I liked their 2015 album, too, a lot actually, I wonder why that didn’t end up here. Funny thing is it was among my ten most listened-to records that year, but didn’t make the final cut of the Top 10 at the time.
Most of this is too experimental for why I follow their work, but The Unclouded Day is a nice piece.
Coldwave and synth and drum loops. Love the moods, sometimes cheesy but that’s also spot on.
Something like an ageless bridge across nu jazz, ambient electronica, soft grooves and laidback head music. Soothing, relaxed, nice feelings, a light and gentle touch on the soul.
Most of this album is crap because I cannot stand auto-tune. But Ordinary Pleasure is a lovely pop track, I vouch for that one.
I was thinking how are some of these tracks so familiar? Then I realized No Roots is a single from 2017, and a soundtrack on The Blacklist, and I also heard her perform live last year. And then I remembered that her concert was raw, under-produced and kind of amateur, which is a striking contrast to what I hear on this record. Her quality as a pop music performer and the stage presence of her band were so much out of sync, and this new debut album underlines this again, at least the part about her potential. I wonder if she will drop her skin and move on with a professional band at some point, or will choose a non-mainstream route and stick with the “high school sweethearts”.
Talking about earbugs, Paténipat is another one recently.