Third One of my all time favorite albums

OK then you're the right person to speak on this album such a wonderful piece of work and going back to it after FTBC just makes the beauty of it stand out more

classic

American gangster would won

Been listening to Burial a lot lately, Tunes 2011-2019 especially; it's nice to have most of his singles and EPs compiled in to a single body of work. The first three tracks are an ambient snoozefest (State Forest, Beachfires, Subtemple), but the album finds a breakbeat pulse in Young Death and delivers Burial's trademark dark atmosphere married with haunting vocals from then on.

@EuroNymous

Listened at midnight high as hell what an eerie ass album. S*** gave me the creeps tbh. songs like we carry on and plastic have such a demonic vibe to em. The whole damn album feels cursed, honestly. Adding more experimental, electronic and krautrock to their already strange blend of genres really made this album so forward thinking and strange. I get reminded of a steampunk dystopia every time i play this, It’d be perfect for s*** like the dishonored video game series. in fact i think i used to play that game blasting this.

riptide and machine gun are 2 of my favorite songs of all time. Machine gun literally couldve dropped right now by fka twigs or sophie and it would still be a modern classic. That beat man and the way beth just floats on it is so weird but lowkey beautiful too. rip tide the most beautiful song on the album to me, and It still had me paranoid. beth’s voice sounds so wispy and brittle, it sounds like a spirit from the dead is singing these depressing lyrics. She gives me the creeps on this album, when on dummy she was more sensual, and on ST she was more bleak. The way she can adapt to each style so well is a big part of why shes one of the best vocalist oat imo.

Portishead was so good at sequencing too. This was their most unconventional but i feel like it has the most interesting sequencing of all their albums. ill never get over that abrupt ending to silence. Rather than take me out the album experience it pulls me in even further, and of course all the tracks hit. Portishead has a d’angelo style discog in the sense that its scant but pretty much perfect due to their godly sequencing and quality control.

9.5/10. Masterpiece and perfect album for these fall/winter months coming, Especially halloween. Never realized how spooky this album is until this relisten. Dont know why i didnt realize it sooner but im BLASTING this s*** when October hits.

@daquan98

TEOM by Mariah Carey

Lowkey Mariah fan here and I love this album. It’s definitely a quintessential comeback albums and it has aged very well as most good r&b albums do.
Jermaine Dupri’s production here was infallible and Mariah was singing like she had something to prove, which I guess was kinda the case. The vocals on We Belong Together are spectacular. Either way, it is the perfect combo to hit a home run at the peak of the R&B/Pop craze when there were so many dominant forces (Usher, Bey, Nelly, Alicia etc...)
Lyrically the album is very campy but Mariah sings every line with so much conviction and seduction that she gets a pass. “Them chicken is ash and Im lotion” is one of the most awful yet funniest lyrics ever. But it’s so Mariah! 😂
The album tracks like Mine Again, I Wish You Knew etc... are also impressive. Very moody and vocally challenging.
Pharrell might be trash now but his production, via The Neptunes, on Say Something is amazing. Say Something is probably my favorite song from the album.
10/10

Who recommended this?

which one

👑 Crimson

rvi

Should’ve known
@RVI

:epic:

currently listening to:

These the nighttime vibes

Was blasting the complete sessions yesterday at like 3 am. Was hitting

^-underrated frfr

Aiight that was the playlist yesterday

Gene Clark one of my heroes, totally underrated outside of music circles

@Elric is the biggest stan

no other

Feel like noir might know this about me

I'm studying him rn, this is the first album I've listened to. Liked it a lot

Should I listen to Jaden’s new album? I love the songs I’ve heard so far.

Hope you started with his masterful Byrds stuff

kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=3827521.0

Yea I've heard some of The Byrds albums. Fifth Dimension is my s***

will use this thread as a ref too, thanks

Where you at with Neil and Bob though?

I'm slacking :(