Dennis: Kurt Metzger. Talks To Young People About Sex. "Is that if I'm good or I'm bad? Why would I want that? I want to go home." Her vagina as his first bike is brilliant. I could go on and on, explaining why this is a 9/10. Kurt is just wonderful. Black Army Jacket. 222. LOL Did they just start this with a Super Troopers "meow"? This girl is screaming a lot. Very upset. JAPAN. Sometimes groove-core, sometimes pop-slam, sometimes straight up grind, these folks really love playing with polyrhythms, time signatures, and quarter-notes... Ambidextrous John Hancocks with fancy watches and little scribbles, let's say. What a fun, wild ride. 6.5/10 (Also, the vinyl is a mere $10. It's prices like those that prove just how grossly some labels price gouge. Talking to you, Triple Crown, Fluttery, Closed Casket, Debemur Morti, Pelagic, too many others...) Tommy: Bastard Radio. Ep.2. Nick Mullen and his Osama beard era? All right. My dad flew with the Blue Angels. By flew, I mean they put on a show and my dad won a raffle to ride in one of the jets. He didn't FLY with them... the Blue Angels took my father. Did squirrelly dings and loopty bops, y'know the whole thing. Ups and downs and such, but fast and stuff. I dunno, I wasn't there, I was probably asleep. As per yooj, Luis isn't funny, Tim is quiet until he's got a gem, and Nick is brilliantly twisted. Anyway, almost halfway through, and this is WAY too dated for me to care about. I mean... COVID Times, amiright? It was years ago at this point, and like Trumpolitics, I'm done. Even as much as I love Tim and Nick, I'm still too exhausted to want to listen to stuff that doesn't matter. Maybe someday this sort of content will be fun to revisit at "remember when" parties. I played the whole thing but Zoom sucks. 3/10--I immediately relistened to Metzger's Fucktalk for Kids special. Innumerable Forms. Philosophical Collapse. Profound Lore? This is gonna be legit. That first track is under three minutes and it's a whole journey. They know how keep shit dynamic, proven by the bigger feat of managing to pull off four-minute doom songs. Excellent stuff, solos and all. 9/10 Angel Olsen. My Woman. Voice is a little much when she really belts out those upper registers, I'd much prefer her she just whimpers, whines, or whispers. W-H word me, Ang. I appreciate the minimalism to the instrumentation, the distortion and tone, the marching band timbre of the drums. Halfway through the first longer song, "Not Gonna Kill You", some stride and some mood are both reached, harkening to Emma Ruth Rundle when she was still in Marriages. The twangy percussion and breathy vocals of follow-ups, "Heart Shaped Face" and "Sister", follow that wonderfully and are a spectacular ten-minute halfway point. "Woman" was a mournful yet playful dirge that I immediately put on repeat. This whole album is playfully mournful. 9.5/10
Dennis:
Kurt Metzger. Talks To Young People About Sex. "Is that if I'm good or I'm bad? Why would I want that? I want to go home." Her vagina as his first bike is brilliant. I could go on and on, explaining why this is a 9/10. Kurt is just wonderful.
Black Army Jacket. 222. LOL Did they just start this with a Super Troopers "meow"? This girl is screaming a lot. Very upset. JAPAN. Sometimes groove-core, sometimes pop-slam, sometimes straight up grind, these folks really love playing with polyrhythms, time signatures, and quarter-notes... Ambidextrous John Hancocks with fancy watches and little scribbles, let's say. What a fun, wild ride. 6.5/10 (Also, the vinyl is a mere $10. It's prices like those that prove just how grossly some labels price gouge. Talking to you, Triple Crown, Fluttery, Closed Casket, Debemur Morti, Pelagic, too many others...)
Tommy:
Bastard Radio. Ep.2. Nick Mullen and his Osama beard era? All right. My dad flew with the Blue Angels. By flew, I mean they put on a show and my dad won a raffle to ride in one of the jets. He didn't FLY with them... the Blue Angels took my father. Did squirrelly dings and loopty bops, y'know the whole thing. Ups and downs and such, but fast and stuff. I dunno, I wasn't there, I was probably asleep. As per yooj, Luis isn't funny, Tim is quiet until he's got a gem, and Nick is brilliantly twisted. Anyway, almost halfway through, and this is WAY too dated for me to care about. I mean... COVID Times, amiright? It was years ago at this point, and like Trumpolitics, I'm done. Even as much as I love Tim and Nick, I'm still too exhausted to want to listen to stuff that doesn't matter. Maybe someday this sort of content will be fun to revisit at "remember when" parties. I played the whole thing but Zoom sucks. 3/10--I immediately relistened to Metzger's Fucktalk for Kids special.
Innumerable Forms. Philosophical Collapse. Profound Lore? This is gonna be legit. That first track is under three minutes and it's a whole journey. They know how keep shit dynamic, proven by the bigger feat of managing to pull off four-minute doom songs. Excellent stuff, solos and all. 9/10
Angel Olsen. My Woman. Voice is a little much when she really belts out those upper registers, I'd much prefer her she just whimpers, whines, or whispers. W-H word me, Ang. I appreciate the minimalism to the instrumentation, the distortion and tone, the marching band timbre of the drums. Halfway through the first longer song, "Not Gonna Kill You", some stride and some mood are both reached, harkening to Emma Ruth Rundle when she was still in Marriages. The twangy percussion and breathy vocals of follow-ups, "Heart Shaped Face" and "Sister", follow that wonderfully and are a spectacular ten-minute halfway point. "Woman" was a mournful yet playful dirge that I immediately put on repeat. This whole album is playfully mournful. 9.5/10