bleeeep
blieep
bl00p
10. Aphex Twin - Cheetah
Can't claim to be the most devoted fan, but homie is good to have around for sure. It's true most of the songs here sound more than a littttle similar, at least at first listen, but it's hard to get uptight about that when more than anything their very purpose seems to be to get you to chill out and stop whining. So just don't do it.
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do you miss them
in your c'est la vie way
more than you'd miss me if you'd stayed
in the hemisphere i asked you to return from?
9. Wolf Parade - EP 4
Kang giving Wolf Parade the props over his beloved Strokesies, who woulda thot? Well the band less so removed from their 2000s indie scene peak (Apologies to the Queen Mary is one of the best albums of that decade
[still ain't ****ing with Is This It tho]
) won this time around. To be honest I haven't kept up with this band at all in the 10 years between then and now, so when I dove back in it was just all around nice to hear they were still rocking their classic sound with a few classy modern touches. Nothing more than a quality 4-track minute EP from a genre that probably doesn't get enough of those anymore
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more to gain from than leaving in
but on the low now we leave it in
washing away that dependency
who the wheres and the why for
a cause to live or to die for
8. Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit
Lol, yet another joint from an act most would say peaked long ago. No shade tho, everyone's gotta come down sooner or later and judging by these songs along with the A/B side they put out a bit later on in the year, it's safe to say our boyz are on the upswing again after a darkish decade. The return of Tricky is major ofc as are the guest appearances from Young Fathers etc., but at the end of the day what holds the whole thing together is a good old-fashioned creepy atmosphere, making it a joy to feel these songs build as they go.
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let's call him a doctor
not 'cause he's medically trained
let's call him a doctor
'cause he's ****ed out of his brains
7. GFOTY - Call Him a Doctor
Yeah she kinda ... took the PC music concept in a direction I didn't quite think it could go. Actually outside of some of the vocal treatment I hesitate to associate this with the rest of PC Music at all. Just crazy, manic energy all around, taking the form of whatever random genre happens to cross her mind in a given moment. Sometimes it comes out ugly and sometimes it really really doesn't.
Just when I think I know pop music well enough, there's always someone new to come up and **** with my expectations of it. Wells it's appreciated.