WEEKLY ALBUM RECAP #19 -- betta late than neva🔥

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No esperan por nadie - Cóclea / Canut de Bon | 1977

post-hardcore | noise rock | screamo

★★★★

No esperan por nadie is split in half, with tracks 2-5 from cóclea and 6-9 from canut de bon. while i preferred the cóclea half i think both are pretty equal in quality - cóclea sort of meanders along with no real set pace, while canut de bon keep their songs under 3 minutes and are more punk influenced (sonically. i don't speak spanish). the screamo tag is what pushed me from listening to this for a while but it's not overly screamo which is nice. both halves manage to be distinct from each other while also creating a surprisingly cohesive album experience. reminds me of how i felt when i first listened to chat pile

for people who thought the soviet union anthem was really funny

      tracklist

1. Que los eunucos bufen
2. Serafín + Nífares
3. Pol Pot
4. Cairo ★
5. Zugzwang
6. Tango
7. Epigramas ×
8. Rosa la Rouge
9. De Apolo para Joaquín

hyperpop

★★★½

this album is much more abrasive than i expected - i've heard one or two gfoty songs before and i guess they were more from the bubblegum bass days. i'm surprised how much i enjoyed this considering this is absolutely something that would've had a death grip on me when i was like 12. GRWM (Eww) was an especially fun moment imo both lyrically and with its industrial influences. some may write this album off as vapid and meaningless and sure but you can't listen to something like Gap Year (Sexy Body Ooh) and not have fun

for people whose #1 dream in middle school was to go to the gecs tree

      tracklist

1. Hello Dear
2. Love Me ★
3. Congrats..
4. Hidden Gem
5. You Care
6. GRWM (Eww)
7. Gap Year (Sexy Body Ooh)
8. Spin Song
9. Sitcom ×
10. Kind Regards

math rock

★★★★

i struggle with instrumental albums sometimes but i bit the bullet cause this is only 28 minutes. More Skin With Milk Mouth turns the wackiness dial up to 11 and while a math rock connoisseur may not find anything new, this album is incredibly well executed. not to "guy whose only heard black midi: Getting a lot of black midi vibes from this" but this really does remind me of Schlagenheim at parts, particularly I Am S/H(im)e[r] and Emilie Sagée’s Secret, which are the most black midi not-black-midi songs i've ever heard. my one thing is that i think the 9 minute songs could've been just a liiiittle shorter

for when you've spent all your cash by the time you get to schlagenheim

      tracklist

1. When Catholic Girls Go Camping, the Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme
2. I Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Are Me and We Am I and I Are All Together: Our Collective Consciousness’ Psychogenic Fugue
3. The Ghost of EPPEEPEE's Ghost ×
4. Emilie Sagée’s Secret ★
5. A Quick One, While She's Away

twee pop | noise pop | indie pop

★★★

a collection of oddly nostalgic, painfully millennial twee pop songs. this album leans hard on a few core songs, those being the first four, while the rest is just kind of lukewarm

for deadstock stores

      tracklist

1. Contender
2. Come Saturday
3. Young Adult Friction ★
4. This Love Is Fucking Right!
   
5. The Tenure Itch ×
6. Stay Alive
7. Everything With You
8. A Teenager in Love
9. Hey Paul
10. Gentle Sons

glitch pop | idm

★★★★

an interesting, sugary sweet blend of glitch pop and shoegaze, this is maybe one of the most fitting album covers in history because it does sound like that. this is an album i appreciate more than i love - songs like Dsco and Chocolate Matter are pure ear candy (a sweet trip, some might say), but there are other moments, particualrly those that lean more into the ambient pop side, that left me wanting more. or less, i guess, since my main thing is that some songs feel like they drag on for much longer than they need to.

for a sugar crash

      tracklist

1. Tekka
2. Dsco
3. Velocity
4. Fruitcake and Cookies
5. Sept
6. Pro : Lov : Ad
7. Design : 1 ×
8. International
9. Dedicated
10. Chocolate Matter ★
11. To All the Dancers of the World, a Round Form of Fantasy
12. Design : 2 : 3

indie rock

★★★½

my only jane remover exposure thus far has been Revengeseekerz, and venturing is certainly a much softer, more relaxed side of her. Ghostholding leans heavily into shoegaze with dense, fuzzy production, so some of the less memorable songs are kind of hard to distinguish. i think her voice works really well in this setting, especially on Dead Forever and Recoil, on the latter of which she leans into a more emo inflection that suits her really well. these two manage to stand out in this tracklist as the brighter moments, and thus they're my favorites and also the only two i think i'd be able to recognize if you played this album for me on shuffle. this album is, however, an outstanding vibe and this will be fantastic in like, august.

for white girl dancing 

      tracklist

1. Play My Guitar
2. No Sleep
3. Believe
4. Guesthouse
5. Spider
6. Recoil ★
7. Something Has to Change ×
8. Dead Forever
9. We Don't Exist
10. Sick / Relapse
11. Famous Girl
12. Halloween
13. Sister

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singer-songwriter | blues rock

★★★½

blues is an element you can find in pretty much every tom waits album,  probably the closest thing to pre-Swordfishtrombones (at this point, anyway) waits blues, but in my opinion this blows the early albums out of the water. Mule Variations has a good combination of tom waits' wittiness and drunken somberness. this album, i suppose, is a culmination of waits' entire career up to this point and while there certainly are some weaker tracks, it manages to never be boring despite its length.

for campfire scary stories

      tracklist

1. Big in Japan
2. Lowside of the Road
3. Hold On
4. Get Behind the Mule
5. House Where Nobody Lives ×
6. Cold Water ★
7. Pony
8. What's He Building?
9. Black Market Baby
10. Eyeball Kid
11. Picture in a Frame
12. Chocolate Jesus
13. Georgia Lee
14. Filipino Box Spring Hog
15. Take It With Me
16. Come On Up to the House

singer-songwriter | dark cabaret | vocal jazz

★★★★

i'm running out of things to say about this guy that i haven't already said, but Alice is basically the best parts of some of his more meh albums all at once

for dying alone

      tracklist

1. Alice ★
2. Everything You Can Think
3. Flower's Grave
4. No One Knows I'm Gone
5. Kommienezuspadt
6. Poor Edward
7. Table Top Joe
8. Lost in the Harbor
9. We're All Mad Here
10. Watch Her Disappear
11. Reeperbahn
12. I'm Still Here
13. Fish & Bird
14. Barcarolle
15. Fawn ×

singer-songwriter | dark cabaret | experimental rock

★★★½

Alice's companion album, Blood Money is its slightly more average sibling. Everything Goes to Hell and God's Away on Business are great, but everything else ranges from meh to pretty good.

for a glimpse into my dark twisted mind

      tracklist

1. Misery Is the River of the World
2. Everything Goes to Hell
   
3. Coney Island Baby ×
4. All the World Is Green
5. God's Away on Business ★
6. Another Man's Vine
7. Knife Chase
8. Lullaby
9. Starving in the Belly of a Whale
10. The Part You Throw Away
11. Woe
12. Calliope
13. A Good Man Is Hard to Find

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