a-10 warthog champion wrote:Juat feel like everything he does is better and better. Happy for tbe dude. Just listening but sounds killer so far. This one sounds lime a damn st etienne track
I really love this album but I'm not sure anything quite reaches the highs of songs like So Close to Paradise, Minneapolis Belongs to You, Andreja-4-Ever, Omamori, and the Sa Sa Samoa remix. The synth arrangements on those first two are some of the coolest I've ever heard
Zarathustra wrote:"I am a libertarian at the global level, conservative at country level, centrist at city level, socialist in my neighbourhood level, communist in my family"
Milquetoaster Strudels wrote:I really love this album but I'm not sure anything quite reaches the highs of songs like So Close to Paradise, Minneapolis Belongs to You, Andreja-4-Ever, Omamori, and the Sa Sa Samoa remix. The synth arrangements on those first two are some of the coolest I've ever heard
not totally sure i agree but one of the really nice things about this is that it has me remembering how much i loved the ruin-era elite gymnastics stuff. i used to listen to minneapolis belongs to you on loop while at my job freshman year in college
On Hipinion, posters taxed their bonds and brotherhood, pushing themselves to the brink as a board and as buds.
[re: checking in with the old gang] i haven’t seen a lot of mention of that track as a standout but it’s lyrically perfect, with complicated emotions spoken plainly. it has a driving momentum to it and it feels like every new section of the song comes in at exactly the right moment.
REAL BASED SLOB wrote:after the javy home run WGN came back with an extended fan cam sequence soundtracked by meat puppets - up on the sun and i've just been doing bong rips and jamming meat puppets since
Milquetoaster Strudels wrote:I really love this album but I'm not sure anything quite reaches the highs of songs like So Close to Paradise, Minneapolis Belongs to You, Andreja-4-Ever, Omamori, and the Sa Sa Samoa remix. The synth arrangements on those first two are some of the coolest I've ever heard
not totally sure i agree but one of the really nice things about this is that it has me remembering how much i loved the ruin-era elite gymnastics stuff. i used to listen to minneapolis belongs to you on loop while at my job freshman year in college
Totally feel that. To me, RUIN sounds like the perfect soundtrack to an incredible skateboarding video, and I guess I must like that sort of music more than anything, because I love when music causes me to imagine doing boardslides
i love that this is chill enough that you can have it on in the background doin other stuff but theres tons of interesting stuff there for active listening too its a hard balance i feel like
terminus wrote:do u like how grimes music is getting worse and jbrooks music is only getting better
i was actually thinking this same thing.
it's hard to say how much of the record is brooks coping with the breakup. i know the majority of these songs have been kicking around for years as demos on his soundcloud. it's pretty cool to see how far they've come, especially songs that had several demos like "checking in with the old gang." i also wanted to echo what other people have said about that song being a perfect song. i played the shit out of both versions of the demo and have gotten really attached to it in a weird way. it just nails this kinda indescribable bittersweet feeling that i can't totally put my finger on. it's like this kinda heartbreaking portrait of trying to find love like after your 20s are over and things are weird and hard and things haven't really panned out like you thought they would.
it's also really nice to see the board loving this record. i remember people really slamming magical pessimism around here back when i was lurking and i still love that record so much. i read on his tumblr like years ago that "words with friends" is written from the perspective of one of his exes and is basically about how crummy of a boyfriend he was to her. after learning that, that song really messed me up and still does!