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❤ Eevee's Best of 2015 ❤
Member Since: 8/6/2015
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Originally posted by Eeveelution
Family starts out really great, but there is just no reason for it to be 8 minutes long, imo. And Notget and Mouth Mantra are just not good in the first place so idk why they're so long. I don't hate the album at all though. I definitely prefer it to Medulla and Volta, so there's that.
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Hm, now that I think about it, Family might be a bit too long, but I love it so much that I don't really care. Notget is great but took forever to grow on me, and Mouth Mantra is definitely the worst on the album, I'll give you that.
Being better than Volta is hardly an achievement, nn. The Medulla shade is not cute tho.
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Oh, and I hope to see Divers or any other Joanna track in top 6
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@ no one caring about Bjork
twigs still has her foot firmly on the neck of any of the other ~alt-rnb~ girls, even with no album in 2015. This one really had to grow on me though. I remember when Melissa (I'm not typing out that ridiculous title) was released and every fomo and his mother was praising "In Time". I was so confused, I couldn't stand it, I thought that twigs' songs on the EP were weird for the sake of being weird and weren't actually, y'know, listenable? But over time I obvs realised how wrong I was. It's just such a bop really, isn't it? Could maybe smash in a parallel universe. I love how the production, while flawless, doesn't overshadow twigs her vocals, unlike many a track on LP1. I think this is definitely her most confident deliver yet, I get life every time I hear that Autotuned "I BEEN FEELING THE SAME IN THE CLUB AND THE RAVE" hook. Also love how the song gets better as it goes a long, the breakdown >
They say a picture paints a thousand words and I think the euphoric steel pans and clipped vocal samples of "Obvs" say more than the flat vocals of xx alumni ever could, but that's just me! Always a sucker for steel pans tbh, The way the song is elevated by those backing vocals (?) at like 80 seconds in, whew. I hate to use this word but it's a real eargasm, ugh I sound like a YouTube commenter. Love the way the song becomes more complex with the addition of more elements until a "chorus" of vocals, then for it to unwind back down again. Kind of gives the song a sort of verse-chorus structure, even if there are no lyrics, if that makes any sense? Anyway, I keep seeing lots of bandwagon Jamie xx hate lately but the cold hard truth of it is that he released this cute lil instrumental track and it happens to be better than anything y'alls faves have done this year. So am putting it in my top 5 and y'all can seethe!
I will do some more later if anyone bothers to show up.
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I said it before and I'll say it again! Figure 8 >>>> In Time!
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twigs still has her foot firmly on the neck of any of the other ~alt-rnb~ girls, even with no album in 2015.
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kelela disagrees!
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I totally slept on Jamie, his album but I listened to it, like, a week or two weeks ago and it was really good. I liked Obvs but my favourites were the tracks he did with his band mates.
In Time bops really love the autotune. As of now it's possibly my favourite song on the EP, even if the two previous tracks are really strong competition.
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Originally posted by bluth
kelela disagrees!
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Talent always wins.
Also Figure 8 is not good.
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BJork
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Black Lake slays, especially that part you speak of.
In Time & Obvs are great songs too.
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In Time is def the best song on her EP
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Black Lake is beautiful. I don't really think that Vulnicura is one of those albums that you really want to listen to all the time, for me, it's more that I have to be in a specific mood. But when I am, it punches hard, especially the infinite gloominess of Black Lake.
And Obvs the Jamie XX song is good. It has steel drums! Have those ever not elevated a song?
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Jamie xx.
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In Time & Obvs. whew awesome songs
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twigs still has her foot firmly on the neck of any of the other ~alt-rnb~ girls, even with no album in 2015.
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Where i the lie?
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every time she goes "and suddenly..." my wig is on the floor
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Girl, same, poor Boy Problems, poor whichever songs the lessors stan for
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Run Away With Me is just as eargasmic (hihi) though
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Carly!
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la hallucinations is great, and would be a highlight for any other album except it's kinda overshadowed for me by a few others on the holy scripture
you ain't slick with that when i prayed to jesus shade though, fix it
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