I'm blaming this comment for why my sidebar has a recommendation for a video about butter on it. I'm actually looking right at it. It almost directly lines up with this comment.
Crude Drawing of an Angel might be my favorite track, it's just so powerful with its sparseness. Pretty In Possible sounds so fresh and also like it has existed for 25 years, it's so well done. Butterfly Net is just one giant flex. Bunny is a Rider and Billions are killer singles. This whole album rules.
she's actually making a complex comment about the nature of capitalism through her depiction of climbing and falling down again within the frame of a working class transport system (i'm talking shite)
Not surprised by the strong 8 at all: it's her moment. She's a rare state of eudaemonia, with lots of experience and enough groundbreaking ideas as to paint the picture she truly wants to deliver. She's fun, talented, unique, crazy and fresh, quite effervescent, I'm always listening to her lately since she brightens my day. That Island track, alone, was a fantastic sign of what was to come. Been loving her since Chairlift, though.
She is not that "In her early 20s" artist. She really is at that right age, with the right experience and reference points to create art that can be timeless cult-classic for the Genre. Im inspired by someone in her late 30s only now really coming into her own as an artist.
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts maybe, but I can't call it. You'd have to ask yourself why you felt the need to call someone pretentious for simply expressing their thoughts
I was like omg is he gonna give her a 9!? Towards the end and then You Let Me Down Again Anthony 😭 it’s a 10 actually!! Pretty sure this is the only music ever released!
You’re so right. Im sorry but kendrick lamar gets a ten for a rap album that sounds like so many other rap albums with songs full of lyrics like all the others. “ im so great and heres why.” YAWWNNN. And then this creative innovative masterpiece gets an 8. Whatever
@@nategaluza6700 dont know if you're joking, but there is no way that is all you took from kendrick's to pimp a butterfly... it's incredibly well written from front to back and addresses themes like African-American culture, racism, depression etc. it also features some of the best jazz, soul, and hip-hop production of all time.
Caroline on Crude Drawing of an Angel “‘Crude Drawing of an Angel’ was born, in some ways, out of me thinking about jokingly having invented the word ‘scorny’-which is scary and horny at the same time. I have a playlist of scorny music that I'm still working on and I realised that it was a tone that I'd never actually explored. I was also reading John Berger's book on drawing [2005’s Berger on Drawing] and thinking about trace-leaving as a form of drawing, and as an extremely beautiful way of looking at sensuality. This song is set in a hotel room in which the word ‘drawing’ takes on six different meanings. It imagines watching someone wake up, not realising they're being observed, whilst drawing them, knowing that's probably the last time you're going to see them.” The lyrics to this song turn the concept of "drawing" into a scene; to draw the bath, draw the curtains, draw the blood... All in preparation to actually draw someone who's asleep and slowly waking up, slowly becoming conscious that they are being observed. It was time to contribute my own to the genre. The fretless bass in this one is actually digital, it was meant just as a sketch, but Danny L Harle and I loved it so much we couldn't replace it. This album has a lot of blurred lines between acoustic and digital - we didn't think about it much, all that matters is the feeling. Between the verse and the chorus, I wanted the lead vocal to "leave the room", go next door to wail in the bathroom, then come back and sing the chorus while looking you dead in the eyes. Singing and drawing are really the same thing, it's a line in space instead of time.
Fun fact: the guy with the baby in the background of the album cover is Danny Harle, long-time producer of Polacheks. Amazing, transportative album, immersive in the way Titanic Rising and Have You In My Wilderness are, good company to keep.
i really liked crude drawing tbh. there’s something about the minimal structure that makes the production take center stage, which i think really does a good job of capturing that “synthetic but somehow worldly and mystical” quality. It kind of reminded me of both Goblin and their work for Suspiria (with those low booming bass sounds) and the White Lotus soundtrack with the bird calls.
'blood and butter' just blew my brain, i listened to it for days on repeat... I don't know how it works. I can hear a track and it won't hook me. but if I listen to it a few more times I become simply obsessed with it
I actually got to hear this album 4 days before its release on the start of her tour, as she was playing the album live for everyone and she wanted to get peoples reactions before it dropped on the fourth show of the tour, and her vocals are down right out of this world heard live, I don’t think the studio version does her voice, any justice to how truly amazing it is
Same, me and my partner were at the 2nd stop of her tour and even though I was disappointed about the album going in, I came out with a one in a life time memory of hearing those songs live. It was just like it was just for that crowd. The album is so special to me because of this!
Yeah I love this album, there’s something v thoughtful about making an album about turning into desire itself, at the beginning of the influencer flop era. Similarly I’m really enchanted by her pushing her vocals to emulate the texture of auto-tune. It’s like conceptually she has been presented with modernity - a world full to bursting of synthetic, over-polished beauty - and instead of feeling the exhaustion or repulsion the rest of us seem to experience in the face of modernity. DIWTTIY reflects and refracts all the yearning that’s driving modernity, saying the yearning itself is beautiful.
"Influencer Flop Era" lol, love it. A lot of her stuff has the energy of someone from ancient times doing something modern but with a visceral nature-closeness to it. Its not rejection, more embrace on her terms. Many of her songs have something forward-thinking to them but pulling from very old reference points. Whether its bag pipes or arena rock guitars to create more of a modern trance-feel. Its always "I heard this sound before, just not like this." Its fresh, yet still familar.
Smoke only got an off handed mention but personally it’s my favourite track, it’s fantastic. Soaring and transcendental, I just love where she went on it. The grimes and Dido feature was also really standout.
i really didn’t think this record could match the euphoria that pang delivered but she proved me wrong. she and danny are truly one of the best songwriting duos we have right now. i’m so grateful to have her music in my life 🐇❤️
I am so happy that *Sunset* going from "meh" to his FAVOURITE. It should be "Bunny is a rider" too. After a few listen, when you get used to the weird elements she infused it with. It became so addictive!!
She was supposed to open for Dua here in Portland and was really my main reason for going…didn’t realize she had a health issue and wouldn’t be performing until I arrived at the show. 😢
thought he would have more to say about smoke, kinda bummed he only mentioned it in passing. my fav track on the album, and I love how the last verse borrows the vocal melody from pretty in possible
Idk where else to put this but I also just noticed the first half of the bagpipe melody in Blood & butter, is the same melody as the first half of Grimes’s verse in Fly to You!
Caroline was one of my most listened artists last year solely with pang and all the singles dropped. Im relieved that this album was as good as expected
Didn’t think I would like this until I heard the BBC 6 Music session on Mary Anne Hobbs show. My god she’s got some talent. Have preordered the album on vinyl. Looking forward to it!
Yes! I honestly love it as a full-listen. The sound feels like a dreamy, sensual, heated greco-romanesque ancient world vs nowness sunburn through a Synthpop, almost 00's Trance haze-like feeling. "Art Teacher on vacation with a slight heatstroke in the south of spain, but still slay." Hard to pinpoint, your comparisons were spot on, tho. Tracks like "Welcome to my Island" and "Billions" are the heavy hitters, but "Smoke" is very alluring to me.
Her voice is just too angelic. I love the bagpipes and the grimes and dido features. Fly to you, Sunset and Welcome to my island are my faves. I wanna know what those little recording bits in Crude Drawing are from.
i really admire the way some parts of this album nods to her early days a little - that easy, innocent and comforting late 90s-2000s indie pop that chairlift debuted in, coexisting with frou frou that you can hear influences from and of course, getting dido onto a track. i’d be really happy if more artists catch up with a 2000s guy sigworth production revival the way disco pop music has recently. there’s no clash with her current avant-futuristic sound but a beautiful blend. she is a master of what she does
Bunny is a Rider have much the same sparcity to it as When Doves Cry, nothing unfinished about it. It was my most played song last year, one of the last 15 years' most played songs to me actually. Now, Pretty In Possible and I Believe are both amongst my most played songs in adult life, one week after album release. Album is genius, and it gets better with every listen. 10/10 here
Great record. Exciting, most songs sound different, some 2000s and 80s radio pop vibes, awesome vocals (though too much processing for my taste, since she's so god damned good she doesn't need it but I get the aesthetic), adventurous production. Kate Bush vibes vocally at points, Bjork in there too. I love this era of music, we are lucky to be getting such interesting fusion and great production these past few years.
about "crude drawing of an angel" caroline said: "between the verse and the chorus I wanted the lead vocal to ""leave the room"", go next door to wail in the bathroom, then come back to sing the chorus while looking you dead in the eyes." oh my.. It's one of my favorites on the album. but the whole thing is so good it really does feel like I love every track equally..
No comment on sunset basically being the gerudo valley music from ocarina of time? Also nothing on Crude drawing of an Angel? Smh my head I saw her at the weekend and oh my god if you get the chance 100% go she's amazing
I think critiquing an album based off of your own expectations to how songs should be structured is kinda weird. Crude Drawing Of An Angel and other tracks such as Pretty In Possible subvert the pop form in each their own way. Pretty in possible has a very progressive structure, Crude drawing is more abstract in a sense. Different buttons are being pushed in order to create dynamics and structure. Layering, vocal effects, samples. I think the track accomplishes what it's going for, setting the mood perfectly for Polachek's abstract poetry. Not saying you can't let your expectations dictate your critique, just think it's makes more sense to judge the art by its own merit.
From the first time I listened to this album I got hooked, and now I'm plainly obsessed by everything she's done. I can't get enough of listening to her.
Totally agree with Anthony's high rating, but I feel he really glossed over the brilliance of the finale track "Billions." It's a mourning, haunting sojourn and provides closure to the fantasy world, dream-state created throughout the album using an allusion to rapacious resource extraction-induced climate change as our 'exit stage left.' Billions, to me, draws upon Dionysus (Greek god of fruitfulness), the cornucopia (allusion to plentifulness and nourishment), and overflowing wine as metaphors for how our planet is tragically being exploited and destroyed for the very attribute it affords: life and abundance. Just my $0.02 :)
He actually reacted to it live on his other channel, but it got deleted(still salty about it) After listening to it, he listed it as the frontrunner of one of the best singles of 2022. But I guess the Welcome To My Island single really overshadowed it by Billions > Blood & Butter Sunset > Welcome To My Island, at least imo.
Good review ! Man it's only February and it feels like Summer already ! I agree she's super underrated or taken too lightly as another wanna be pop singer. She's using popular codes only to better release her own unique artsy universe. I fell in love with her with Billions, released more than a year ago, still thinking that's her masterpiece. Powerful and surprising conclusion to that dreamy record :)
I only know Danny L Harley from this track in my dreams i love since 2016, when i saw in Spotify stories he was on the album it was such a good surprised to know more from him
This was a really good listen. I actually had to listen to this a few times to understand what was happening with the production. Hopefully they'll release in the future some sort of behind the scenes documentary explaining the process of the production in this album and how did she came up with such creative lyrics for the melodies on it. It is really nice to hear such creative production on a project of this calibre of songwriting.
Im very excited to get your genuine honest thoughts on the new Skrillex album. I feel like i already know what your criticism is going to be because i stand in a very similar place you were with skrill prior to this album.
I've been addicted to this album for months. Crude Drawing of An Angel is ethereal vocals. It sounds like a 90s Bond track but her vocals bring the song alive. Bunny is A Rider is my dance jam. Mystical Escapism is how I'd define the sound of this album. It's pure art at play. ❤
It's a great pop record. Mature yet playful, like a 32 teenager falling in love. Even 54 turns into 24 with this. But she can be better. If she masters her song crafting the next album should be solid above 9. Great review man , too.
I freaking loved this album, it feels so earthy and warm compared to Pang was such a 180 in structure too. But I’m so surprised Crude Drawing Of An Angle was a least favorite
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This woman's voice glides like butter
blood and butter
I'm blaming this comment for why my sidebar has a recommendation for a video about butter on it. I'm actually looking right at it. It almost directly lines up with this comment.
@@differentbutsimilar7893 the album has a song called blood and butter
@@thejoashgrahamshow ew, that sounds like a bloody-buttery mess!
It's like butter baby , it's like butter
Great album, very brave of her to admit she wants to turn into Desiigner
desiigner, (GRRRRAH, GRRRRAH, GRRRRAH, GRRRRAH) i want to turn into you
FLOOOOAT ON THE OLD SHAMPOO
Kkkkkkk
Remember the Panda guy…he’s still around doing something
W H Y
modern pop has no business sounding this good, especially in the current sea of vomit. easily, and definitely, a 9/10.
she makes art pop. not all pop music is bad 🤷🏻♂️
Crude Drawing of an Angel might be my favorite track, it's just so powerful with its sparseness. Pretty In Possible sounds so fresh and also like it has existed for 25 years, it's so well done. Butterfly Net is just one giant flex. Bunny is a Rider and Billions are killer singles. This whole album rules.
r u me??? Love this take
Oh you've got taste
totally agree. when "camera 1, camera 2" piped up while I was listening I knew this was gonna be on repeat for a while.
Crude Drawing is insane I love it sm it's scary and horny as Caroline describes it
Mine is I believe , those digital synths are just incredible
First Paramore gets a 8/10 and now Caroline. The world is truly healing
Did we expect anything else? It’s not like anyone expected them to get low scores.
@@RB-.- cope
@@RB-.- must suck to be different. Since most people love this album. You missing out.
But he also gave Raven a 6/10, so it's still not healing at all
Last year tho... Charli, Bjork, Mitski
2022 never happened
Bunny is a Rider is actually a mini-masterpiece of word play & rhythmic games...it's so good & addictive!
bunny is a rider is one of my favorites!!!! it’s so fun
My favorite one. I agree, so addictive.
so true, there's actually a lot of moments of wordplay throughout the whole album
which word play?
Bunny is a bunny is a
Felt like a 9 to me. First time I've heard her and it was spectacular
Pang is amazing
same, i knew of her before this was released but now that i’ve listened to the album fully, i’m OBSESSED. her first album Pang is great too.
Don't forget to listen to *Chairlift.*
Check out Pang, Chairlift, and Ramona Lisa!
Caroline finally got up that ladder on Pang and now's on a subway.
or maybe she was climbing it down
True, but she always goes up in my book.
She's in the bullet train
she's actually making a complex comment about the nature of capitalism through her depiction of climbing and falling down again within the frame of a working class transport system (i'm talking shite)
It is interesting how she's in transit, in motion on both of her album covers
JUST WITH THAT ALBUM COVER, WE ALL KNOW SHE WILL SLAY
Please never say that again
@@Nomad7222 oh best believe they'll say it again
@@Nomad7222 she slayed.
@@Nomad7222 She slayed and you are a virgin Austin
Why are y'all so cringe 🤢🤮
I can't be the only one craving a classic Imogen Heap record but Caroline is the only one making it.
Me!!🤚
it made me go back to frou frou's details and dido's no angel
Yup
Also check out Hana! Particularly her self-titled EP has this vibe. I wish she’d make more music like that
OH! I am with you!!!! It's so crazy how some people are ahead of their time. ❤
also, Caroline said that ‘I believe’ was a track dedicated to SOPHIE Xeon 💜
no way. i’m crying now
Now knowing this...the opening line hits so much harder 😔
I've already played this one 50 times!
I knew it! It sounds so much like Stop The Music, 1995 Sophie's album
@@fernandoc3814 theyre talking about sophie xeon, the hyperpop artist
I’d give this a 9. Best pop album in years.
Strong 8 is damned close to a 9 lol
Strong 6
I agree this deserved at least a 9 and I was certain that’s the score he was going to give with how much he’s enjoyed the singles
I still think pang is better, something about the production on that album just rises me up from the dead
@@cowgirltheworld same I think that someone could connect with Pang way more than this one. And the way she uses her voice on Pang is just perfection.
Not surprised by the strong 8 at all: it's her moment. She's a rare state of eudaemonia, with lots of experience and enough groundbreaking ideas as to paint the picture she truly wants to deliver. She's fun, talented, unique, crazy and fresh, quite effervescent, I'm always listening to her lately since she brightens my day. That Island track, alone, was a fantastic sign of what was to come. Been loving her since Chairlift, though.
She is not that "In her early 20s" artist. She really is at that right age, with the right experience and reference points to create art that can be timeless cult-classic for the Genre. Im inspired by someone in her late 30s only now really coming into her own as an artist.
Next time just write: "I'm pretentious" and move on. Saves everyone time.
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts next time just write: "your comment made me feel stupid" and move on
@@jamesw.9256 projecting much?
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts maybe, but I can't call it. You'd have to ask yourself why you felt the need to call someone pretentious for simply expressing their thoughts
I was like omg is he gonna give her a 9!? Towards the end and then You Let Me Down Again Anthony 😭 it’s a 10 actually!! Pretty sure this is the only music ever released!
For me is a 7 lol he didn't let down anyone
You’re so right. Im sorry but kendrick lamar gets a ten for a rap album that sounds like so many other rap albums with songs full of lyrics like all the others. “ im so great and heres why.” YAWWNNN.
And then this creative innovative masterpiece gets an 8. Whatever
@@nategaluza6700 why do people always feel the need to put down other records to say how much they like an album
@@nategaluza6700 "creative innovative masterpiece" the singles are great but the rest of the songs are just okay.
@@nategaluza6700 dont know if you're joking, but there is no way that is all you took from kendrick's to pimp a butterfly... it's incredibly well written from front to back and addresses themes like African-American culture, racism, depression etc. it also features some of the best jazz, soul, and hip-hop production of all time.
Caroline on Crude Drawing of an Angel
“‘Crude Drawing of an Angel’ was born, in some ways, out of me thinking about jokingly having invented the word ‘scorny’-which is scary and horny at the same time. I have a playlist of scorny music that I'm still working on and I realised that it was a tone that I'd never actually explored. I was also reading John Berger's book on drawing [2005’s Berger on Drawing] and thinking about trace-leaving as a form of drawing, and as an extremely beautiful way of looking at sensuality. This song is set in a hotel room in which the word ‘drawing’ takes on six different meanings. It imagines watching someone wake up, not realising they're being observed, whilst drawing them, knowing that's probably the last time you're going to see them.”
The lyrics to this song turn the concept of "drawing" into a scene; to draw the bath, draw the curtains, draw the blood... All in preparation to actually draw someone who's asleep and slowly waking up, slowly becoming conscious that they are being observed. It was time to contribute my own to the genre. The fretless bass in this one is actually digital, it was meant just as a sketch, but Danny L Harle and I loved it so much we couldn't replace it. This album has a lot of blurred lines between acoustic and digital - we didn't think about it much, all that matters is the feeling. Between the verse and the chorus, I wanted the lead vocal to "leave the room", go next door to wail in the bathroom, then come back and sing the chorus while looking you dead in the eyes. Singing and drawing are really the same thing, it's a line in space instead of time.
Beautiful! Thank you.
Thanks for sharing! Her ideas behind songs are always fascinating to hear.
Definitely some peak Manhattan head up your ass explaining
she needs to drop the scorny playlist
@@coscorrodriftperfume genius’ Die 4 U better be on her list. It’s a perfect companion to the song.
Fun fact: the guy with the baby in the background of the album cover is Danny Harle, long-time producer of Polacheks. Amazing, transportative album, immersive in the way Titanic Rising and Have You In My Wilderness are, good company to keep.
Shout out to have you in my wilderness
HUGE DANNY
huge danny
danny sampled his baby on bunny is a rider too. and the baby is holding a bunny on the cover. so many connections
very cool
i really liked crude drawing tbh. there’s something about the minimal structure that makes the production take center stage, which i think really does a good job of capturing that “synthetic but somehow worldly and mystical” quality. It kind of reminded me of both Goblin and their work for Suspiria (with those low booming bass sounds) and the White Lotus soundtrack with the bird calls.
'blood and butter' just blew my brain, i listened to it for days on repeat...
I don't know how it works. I can hear a track and it won't hook me. but if I listen to it a few more times I become simply obsessed with it
I actually got to hear this album 4 days before its release on the start of her tour, as she was playing the album live for everyone and she wanted to get peoples reactions before it dropped on the fourth show of the tour, and her vocals are down right out of this world heard live, I don’t think the studio version does her voice, any justice to how truly amazing it is
omg this makes me so excited to see her in may 😭😭😭
Same, me and my partner were at the 2nd stop of her tour and even though I was disappointed about the album going in, I came out with a one in a life time memory of hearing those songs live. It was just like it was just for that crowd. The album is so special to me because of this!
I envy y'all 😭😭😭
Yeah I love this album, there’s something v thoughtful about making an album about turning into desire itself, at the beginning of the influencer flop era. Similarly I’m really enchanted by her pushing her vocals to emulate the texture of auto-tune.
It’s like conceptually she has been presented with modernity - a world full to bursting of synthetic, over-polished beauty - and instead of feeling the exhaustion or repulsion the rest of us seem to experience in the face of modernity. DIWTTIY reflects and refracts all the yearning that’s driving modernity, saying the yearning itself is beautiful.
"Influencer Flop Era" lol, love it.
A lot of her stuff has the energy of someone from ancient times doing something modern but with a visceral nature-closeness to it. Its not rejection, more embrace on her terms. Many of her songs have something forward-thinking to them but pulling from very old reference points. Whether its bag pipes or arena rock guitars to create more of a modern trance-feel. Its always "I heard this sound before, just not like this." Its fresh, yet still familar.
What do you mean by influencer flop era?
so well said!
Smoke only got an off handed mention but personally it’s my favourite track, it’s fantastic. Soaring and transcendental, I just love where she went on it. The grimes and Dido feature was also really standout.
Glad you came around on 'Sunset'. It's legit the best song on the album.
spill
i didn’t care for it either when was released but it makes so much sense in the album… now it’s one of my faves
@@energyismygame The hook is so fucking catchy. Been stuck in my head ever since it first came out a few months ago.
I agree, loved it since the day it released
It's flawless
I honestly feel like this is Caroline Polachek's best album so far.
It’s amazing. Caroline’s voice is insanely good and the production somehow matches it. Strong 9
Her vocals are unmatched, and even better live ❤
As much as I miss her in Chairlift, her solo work has been phenomenal.
i really didn’t think this record could match the euphoria that pang delivered but she proved me wrong. she and danny are truly one of the best songwriting duos we have right now. i’m so grateful to have her music in my life 🐇❤️
I am so happy that *Sunset* going from "meh" to his FAVOURITE. It should be "Bunny is a rider" too. After a few listen, when you get used to the weird elements she infused it with. It became so addictive!!
This album is 100% the best of the 2020s.
She is incredibly good live. Highly recommend seeing her if you get the chance.
YES! I saw her in Chile and she was just AMAZING and so sweet too!
I saw her in Brazil and it was simply sublime... Can't wait to see her performing the new songs
saw her on tuesday here in london…. unbelievable experience she blew my wig off
She was supposed to open for Dua here in Portland and was really my main reason for going…didn’t realize she had a health issue and wouldn’t be performing until I arrived at the show. 😢
I saw her on Tuesday in London as well, amazing stuff!!
a potential album of the year for me and it's just february 🥲
thought he would have more to say about smoke, kinda bummed he only mentioned it in passing. my fav track on the album, and I love how the last verse borrows the vocal melody from pretty in possible
Omg I thought this whole time it was the da-da-da part from Smoke itself, they blend so well together
Idk where else to put this but I also just noticed the first half of the bagpipe melody in Blood & butter, is the same melody as the first half of Grimes’s verse in Fly to You!
Caroline was one of my most listened artists last year solely with pang and all the singles
dropped. Im relieved that this album was as good as expected
love how the bagpipes in blood in butter is just grimes’ verse in fly to you, just pitched differently. we love a self-referential queen
WOAHHHHH
Didn’t think I would like this until I heard the BBC 6 Music session on Mary Anne Hobbs show. My god she’s got some talent. Have preordered the album on vinyl. Looking forward to it!
Yes! I honestly love it as a full-listen. The sound feels like a dreamy, sensual, heated greco-romanesque ancient world vs nowness sunburn through a Synthpop, almost 00's Trance haze-like feeling. "Art Teacher on vacation with a slight heatstroke in the south of spain, but still slay." Hard to pinpoint, your comparisons were spot on, tho. Tracks like "Welcome to my Island" and "Billions" are the heavy hitters, but "Smoke" is very alluring to me.
Such an amazing, fun album. I’ll never get tired of her voice
I do be wanting to turn into desire at times
No cause she was so real for this! Like Bunny IS a rider! 💅😌✨🐇
Much better than MGK's "Weed, I Want To Turn Into You"
I already know Sunset will be playing on repeat this summer. Such an addictively beautiful track.
Best of the year so far by a huge margin - not heard a better solo release - male or female - since 2015 Julia Holter
Her voice is just too angelic. I love the bagpipes and the grimes and dido features. Fly to you, Sunset and Welcome to my island are my faves. I wanna know what those little recording bits in Crude Drawing are from.
i really admire the way some parts of this album nods to her early days a little - that easy, innocent and comforting late 90s-2000s indie pop that chairlift debuted in, coexisting with frou frou that you can hear influences from and of course, getting dido onto a track. i’d be really happy if more artists catch up with a 2000s guy sigworth production revival the way disco pop music has recently. there’s no clash with her current avant-futuristic sound but a beautiful blend. she is a master of what she does
Bunny is a Rider have much the same sparcity to it as When Doves Cry, nothing unfinished about it. It was my most played song last year, one of the last 15 years' most played songs to me actually. Now, Pretty In Possible and I Believe are both amongst my most played songs in adult life, one week after album release. Album is genius, and it gets better with every listen. 10/10 here
Crude Drawing of an Angel is for sure my favorite song. Blood and Butter, and Billions are my favorite singles for sure.
Why is it surprising that she collaborated with her fellow sirens (Grimes x Dido) THO?! It totally made sense for me and it's my favorite!
The pinkpanthress demo just leaked. Dido really understood the assignment for her to get the final mix.
This album is fireeeeeee, I think I'm equally in love or even more then Pang
Great record. Exciting, most songs sound different, some 2000s and 80s radio pop vibes, awesome vocals (though too much processing for my taste, since she's so god damned good she doesn't need it but I get the aesthetic), adventurous production. Kate Bush vibes vocally at points, Bjork in there too. I love this era of music, we are lucky to be getting such interesting fusion and great production these past few years.
Wym processing?
Without fail, your least fav track is always my favorite track 😭 love your reviews and hearing your thoughts!
personally still feel like billions is the best track on here. i dont know what she put in that track but i love it dearly
Ikr that song is insanely addicting, the beats are so hypnotic and the way she sings and the choir is so godly and shiny
I listened to the song for 5 hours straight the day it was released last year. I'm addicted to it a year later.
I hope we get an extended version of that chorus outro... it's so outstanding. It was my most listened track during 2022.
@@arian_motta same, i streamed it 272 times last year before spotify stopped counting wrapped. nothing will ever come close to it.
about "crude drawing of an angel" caroline said: "between the verse and the chorus I wanted the lead vocal to ""leave the room"", go next door to wail in the bathroom, then come back to sing the chorus while looking you dead in the eyes."
oh my.. It's one of my favorites on the album. but the whole thing is so good it really does feel like I love every track equally..
Really fun album, I would give it a Mother/10
mum/10
Mother Cain/10
maternal figure/10
Incredible voice. She played a set on Radio 6 recently and I could not believe it was live. Just amazing. Great record.
Great album, 8.9/10.
I Believe, Smoke and Butterfly Net are my favourites.
A win for musical world building, for sure.
ngl I was expecting a 9 but I agree. absolutely fantastic album.
Sunset is the La Isla Bonita of the 2020s
so true
Instant classic territory imo
Crude Drawing of an Angel best song of all time
No comment on sunset basically being the gerudo valley music from ocarina of time?
Also nothing on Crude drawing of an Angel? Smh my head
I saw her at the weekend and oh my god if you get the chance 100% go she's amazing
I want a Caroline and Anthony fantano interview ASAP
I know it's early days but one of my favourite albums of the year so far.
Would love to hear your thoughts on the new Raye album too!
do skrillex’s new album “guest for fire” ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
FLY TO YOU is personally my favorite pop song of 2023 so far, Grimes' vocals mesh so well together with Caroline's towards the end of the track
And Dido's verses, she sounds like a discovered record playing after all humankind has vanished
but there’s pretty in possible…
I’m so glad you rated this well, I’m obsessed with this album.
"desire, I want to turn into you"? Anthony, you took the words straight out of my mouth. I was just about to say the same
this album is what the term "pop bible" was created for
i really really love this album, its already so meaningful to me and i cant wait to watch it grow
first time hearing about her thanks to Melon, bro this album is just amazing! easy 9/10
I think critiquing an album based off of your own expectations to how songs should be structured is kinda weird. Crude Drawing Of An Angel and other tracks such as Pretty In Possible subvert the pop form in each their own way. Pretty in possible has a very progressive structure, Crude drawing is more abstract in a sense. Different buttons are being pushed in order to create dynamics and structure. Layering, vocal effects, samples. I think the track accomplishes what it's going for, setting the mood perfectly for Polachek's abstract poetry. Not saying you can't let your expectations dictate your critique, just think it's makes more sense to judge the art by its own merit.
how tf crude drawing of an angel his least favorite 💀💀😭😭
How can you say that about Bunny Is A Rider? It's disgusting how much I have listened to it, it's addictive 😂
such a cool album cover
From the first time I listened to this album I got hooked, and now I'm plainly obsessed by everything she's done. I can't get enough of listening to her.
Totally agree with Anthony's high rating, but I feel he really glossed over the brilliance of the finale track "Billions." It's a mourning, haunting sojourn and provides closure to the fantasy world, dream-state created throughout the album using an allusion to rapacious resource extraction-induced climate change as our 'exit stage left.' Billions, to me, draws upon Dionysus (Greek god of fruitfulness), the cornucopia (allusion to plentifulness and nourishment), and overflowing wine as metaphors for how our planet is tragically being exploited and destroyed for the very attribute it affords: life and abundance.
Just my $0.02 :)
He actually reacted to it live on his other channel, but it got deleted(still salty about it) After listening to it, he listed it as the frontrunner of one of the best singles of 2022. But I guess the Welcome To My Island single really overshadowed it by Billions > Blood & Butter Sunset > Welcome To My Island, at least imo.
This is a strong 9 for me
Good review ! Man it's only February and it feels like Summer already ! I agree she's super underrated or taken too lightly as another wanna be pop singer. She's using popular codes only to better release her own unique artsy universe. I fell in love with her with Billions, released more than a year ago, still thinking that's her masterpiece. Powerful and surprising conclusion to that dreamy record :)
She's the most interesting artist of the moment
can we talk about the pipes in blood and butter because 🗣🗣🗣 i love when folk meets avant-garde
Pang: the plane album
Desire: the train album
i'm convinced anthony does not know about the number 9
I also loved this one. Pang in 2019 was great but this album is even better.
Did anyone pick up that Anthony's note in the beginning is the same note she sings on desire in welcome to my island.
i was at the first show of her tour last week, was lucky enough to be one of the first to hear most of these songs
Fly To You is the one track I was worried about and it turned out to be my favorite song of the year so far. Unbelievably good album.
I just saw her live and my god, I will never be the same.
it’s a 9 for me. just so good.
SHE SLAYED
Billions makes me cry it’s so beautiful
Bunny is a Rider is one of the best songs of the decade. Like no joke, may be this decade's Run Away With Me. 9/10 awesome artpop project.
Did anyone else spot Danny L Harle and his little kid on the album cover! So cute
I only know Danny L Harley from this track in my dreams i love since 2016, when i saw in Spotify stories he was on the album it was such a good surprised to know more from him
This was a really good listen. I actually had to listen to this a few times to understand what was happening with the production. Hopefully they'll release in the future some sort of behind the scenes documentary explaining the process of the production in this album and how did she came up with such creative lyrics for the melodies on it. It is really nice to hear such creative production on a project of this calibre of songwriting.
Im very excited to get your genuine honest thoughts on the new Skrillex album. I feel like i already know what your criticism is going to be because i stand in a very similar place you were with skrill prior to this album.
Lowkey 9 to 10 imo respect the praise though
This is the best album I've heard in awhile. I love love love it. ❤️🔥
YES I fucking love this album so much. Caroline is my favorite pop artist and my favorite vocalist of all time
I've been addicted to this album for months. Crude Drawing of An Angel is ethereal vocals. It sounds like a 90s Bond track but her vocals bring the song alive. Bunny is A Rider is my dance jam. Mystical Escapism is how I'd define the sound of this album. It's pure art at play. ❤
It's a great pop record. Mature yet playful, like a 32 teenager falling in love. Even 54 turns into 24 with this. But she can be better. If she masters her song crafting the next album should be solid above 9. Great review man , too.
I freaking loved this album, it feels so earthy and warm compared to Pang was such a 180 in structure too. But I’m so surprised Crude Drawing Of An Angle was a least favorite