music

new music roundup #2

gold by 2hollis i discovered 2hollis off the praise he recieved for his excellent third album boy, and he’s rapidly become one of my favorite artists working right now. he went on tour recently supporting ken carson, and i see why – he’s operating in a similar lane of highly distorted trap-adjacent music – but he easily blows ken and all the other carti clones out of the water. his vocal performances have a huge amount of emotional expressive range relative to his peers, and his production is way more innovative, blending trap with hardstyle and electroclash to make something totally unique.

album of the decade

let’s try some dumber simpler posts on here pitchfork did some half-decade lists and of course fetch the bolt cutters, the only album they’ve given a 10 since my beautiful dark twisted fantasy, is #1. fetch the bolt cutters is such a funny album because nobody ever talks about it except in conversations like this. it’s a record that exists exclusively to fit the mold of what is supposed to top an “album of the decade” list, but nobody listens to it or talks about it or is influenced by it.

new music roundup #1

gonna try and do posts like this regularly, maybe once a week or so? since this is the inaugural one i’ll include some music not from this week but from earlier this month that i’ve been enjoying. just.dansen by xaev just.dansen by xaev somehow i totally missed that almost a month ago xaev put out a new album. it’s got some uk garage, some jungle, and some electro house/complextro type stuff.

album review: ants from up there by black country, new road

“maximalist indie rock is back baby. it’s good again. awoouu (wolf howl)” black country, new road are a british post-punk/post-rock band from london. they are, or were, fronted by isaac wood, whose expressive vocals and neurotic lyrics were what drew me to the band through singles like athens, france and sunglasses. their first album, 2021’s for the first time took a while to grow on me, but it eventually became one of my favorite albums of the year.