ALBUM OF ALBUMS
FREE FINGA - PLASTIKA
First I was very very sceptical. Why would I like something that a guy with a stage name like that produced? :D
But after the first listen, the fun bass and cheeky lyrics got me. I am also a sucker for nice harmonies and breathing sounds in the background, which this album delivered plenty of.
It nourished something in me I can’t explain so sorry to all that don’t speak Lithuanian.
But after the first listen, the fun bass and cheeky lyrics got me. I am also a sucker for nice harmonies and breathing sounds in the background, which this album delivered plenty of.
Upon a closer listen (or rather reading), the words turned out to not be so cheeky but rather drenched in self-doubt and the feeling of being stuck. Which made me fall in love with it even more! Every single song, whether I loved it from first listen or not, took its turn to be my favourite and change in its meaning. I didn’t realise it for the first month with this album, but it really echoed my hunger for breaking down inner walls that inevitably keep reappearing (how lovely when the media you consume matches your inner state :D).
It nourished something in me I can’t explain so sorry to all that don’t speak Lithuanian.
ZABA by GLASS ANIMALS
THIS HIT ME OUT OF NOWHERE (this nowhere happens to go by the name Aistė, who just casually dropped this into my life and now I have no way to repay her). I am constantly plagued by this album... what a trip!
Warm, almost tribal and at times otherworldly. It may help to not be sober or at the very least do absolutely nothing when listening to it for the first time - I prescribe a meditative experience.
This album I feel fully bloomed for me upon listening to it in a forest with fire gently toasting my cheeks.
From a musical point of view, I did not expect this from Glass Animals at all but the piecing of backyard sounds (like spoons, water, birds...) scratches my brain.
And from the emotional side, even though it’s always a different experience, it feels like the safest adventure into whatever jungle you journey into. Nothing is too weird or scary.
THIS HIT ME OUT OF NOWHERE (this nowhere happens to go by the name Aistė, who just casually dropped this into my life and now I have no way to repay her). I am constantly plagued by this album... what a trip!
Warm, almost tribal and at times otherworldly. It may help to not be sober or at the very least do absolutely nothing when listening to it for the first time - I prescribe a meditative experience.
This album I feel fully bloomed for me upon listening to it in a forest with fire gently toasting my cheeks.
From a musical point of view, I did not expect this from Glass Animals at all but the piecing of backyard sounds (like spoons, water, birds...) scratches my brain.
And from the emotional side, even though it’s always a different experience, it feels like the safest adventure into whatever jungle you journey into. Nothing is too weird or scary.
Hayley Williams “Petals For Armor”
Gotta simmer simmer simmer simmer simmer down after this album for sure. As I’ve said about “Plastika”, using breath as an instrument makes me weak at the knees, which I was so happy to feel in this album, especially in beginning tracks like Simmer and Creepin’.
The lyrics ride the music so beautifully, creating the feeling that no other words could be accompanied by these sounds. The subject of the album was also mesmerizing to me - so intimate and raw, reminding me of past places, current states, and perhaps future happenings.
The journey from anger, frustration, and depression in the first half to kathartic and relieving experiences in the second, with glimpses of light throughout (like Cinnamon, which is the 3rd song), was soooooo satisfying to me.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful play on words in Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris and Sugar On The Rim, I always love to see metaphors fitting together like legos.
The journey from anger, frustration, and depression in the first half to kathartic and relieving experiences in the second, with glimpses of light throughout (like Cinnamon, which is the 3rd song), was soooooo satisfying to me.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful play on words in Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris and Sugar On The Rim, I always love to see metaphors fitting together like legos.
However, I do skip some songs on this one.
Dipped in excitement and glazed with movement, this is THE adventure album.
I can never listen to it while staying still or at least wishing I was seated in a spaceship, off to some distant disco-worshipping planet.
I was already familiar with some of the songs for quite a while on their own but never in full album form. OH BOY did things change when I was introduced to Interstella 5555, the accompanying movie. It took the sound and meaning of the songs to a completely different dimension.
I cannot help but fangirl about the pacing of this record and the purely genius way a movie plot was integrated into it.
I am not joking when I say that this healed about half of my broken heart, colouring my mind in a different light with all of its energy and vibrancy.
Discovery is no doubt the best discovery I have made, and I wish to never leave this trance-like world.
I can never listen to it while staying still or at least wishing I was seated in a spaceship, off to some distant disco-worshipping planet.
I was already familiar with some of the songs for quite a while on their own but never in full album form. OH BOY did things change when I was introduced to Interstella 5555, the accompanying movie. It took the sound and meaning of the songs to a completely different dimension.
I cannot help but fangirl about the pacing of this record and the purely genius way a movie plot was integrated into it.
I am not joking when I say that this healed about half of my broken heart, colouring my mind in a different light with all of its energy and vibrancy.
Discovery is no doubt the best discovery I have made, and I wish to never leave this trance-like world.
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