#2017 april

[albumlog]

Ryuichi Sakamoto - async

Sakamoto contemplates mortality, finiteness and the existential strangement as he makes the soundtrack for an imaginary Tarkovsky film. That’s something special.

[sakurafavjd]

hahahhhhh!!

[whispersoftheworld]

Man to Man

Episode 1

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[albumlog]

 Pond - The Weather

Pond was always shadow of other bands (Tame Impala, MGMT) and aesthetics (60′s psychedelia and 70′s glam rock). Despite they’re being good, Pond is essentially artificial. So, in The Weather, in addition to sound like the usual glam psychedelic immitation, Pond adds Tame Impala’s Currents-class pop on Sweep Me Off My Feet and Paint me Silver - the album’s hit, a hello to fellow aussie King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard on A/B, and the Jay Watson’s Gum-like cut Colder than Ice. At this point we know Pond is not about authenticity, it seems they’re about sounding good. And they’re ok at that.

[albumlog]

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

Musically irreproachable, Lamar reflects on isolation and human relations.

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 . Broken Things

[albumlog]

Mew - Visuals

Mew has never been a full-on emotional band. Their sound has been defined by precise formulas, clinical calculations of technical musicianship and pop sensibilities. This approach has produced a handful of hits and one great loose-concept album. It’s been a while since Mew impressed for the last time. Not that Visuals doesn’t please, it does, in a very unsurprising way: syncopated beats, delicate interludes, big synths, obscure personal lyrics, progressive rock routines packed into pop-sized songs.Mew’s formule is wearing out and it’s starting to feel not calculated but artificial.