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Jul. 6th, 2022 05:58 pmMeanwhile, Sweet Trip went on an extended hiatus, somehow got a cult following, and then tragically [snicker] broke up due to Roby Burgos' assholery and megalomania, much like Crystal Castles. And in case you have doubts, something as nonsensical as "Eave Foolery, Mill Five" can only be an anagram.
I never really got into them (I have no idea how anyone could call Velocity:Design:Comfort the seventh best shoegaze album of all time, because it really just sounds like someone took the actual seventh best shoegaze of all time and then rubbed rusty nails over it) and I’m kinda glad there are only about two Sweet Trip songs I like (And I’m kind of ambiguous about Orange Freeze but it follows three good songs on Orange) but it’s still a sad end for the last of the Dreams by Degrees bands.
Crystal Castles is a band I dismissed back before and it's probably because they had a following on Gamingforce but I have no idea because vbulletin's search feature is atrocious when it comes to multiple words. Especially multiple common words.
I've had those thoughts simmering around since May.
The Landmarks Orchestra quietly put up a few of their commissioned works on their website. I’m still waiting for the full performance of Views instead of just fragmemnts, and I’m waiting for Pegasus Promenade, but hey, we get Elements. And we get Anke Dje, Anke Be, even if you actually have to look for it now.
Because it's July 6, here are some other things I’ve been discovering and listening to a lot this year:
Remember: these are new things. I’ve also been listening to a lot of John Adams and Deftones but those aren’t new to me so I’m not going to list them here.
Talking Heads - Heaven
Clairo - Just For Today
Nico Muhly - How Little You Are
King Crimson - Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Part One
Berlin - Heartstrings - Used in Spaceballs
Coral Moons - For You
Feathermerchants - Syracuse
Slow Dress - Butterfly
Tamikrest - Adounia Mahegagh
The Friel Sisters - McCahill’s/The Pigeon on the Gate
Night Fruit - Sea Blood
Violet Nox - Nebula
Gabriella Smith - Carrot Revolution
Empress Of - Water Water
Gems - w/o u
Grimes - Artangels
Halsey - You Asked For This
Steve Reich - Variations for Winds, Strings, and Keyboards
Carl Nielsen - Symphony no. 2
Arnold Bax - Symphony no. 5
Lastlings - Held Under
Divine Sweater - Out For July
Bohuslav Martinu - Symphony no. 4
Lou Harrison - Symphony no. 3
Radiohead - Follow Me Around
Bent Shapes - Samantha West - hey, Ben was in my homeroom class throughout high school. Three years of loyal servitude, he says, and they repaid him by giving him the worst locker.
Tideline - Seasons - I’m not sure if it’s the Christian Gilbert. I mean, the band is Belgian and Christian Gilbert plays drums here, not guitar, so probably not.
Star Ghost Dog - Holiday
Epic45 - Here Lies Summer - Fuck you, Japanese record companies and your Japan-only bonus tracks for bands that nobody in Japan actually listens to. Epic45 put it on their bandcamp.
So I did a thing that satisfies my curiosity: In King's Quest V, I was wondering what would happen if I offered the old boot you find in the desert to the cobbler in the town to see if the cobbler or narrator says anything and the answer is, you get the same generic response you'd get if you were to offer him the marionette or the old wand or the locket (I assume that in the NES version, there's a way to generate a password that would give you an item you can't have in that area). I don't know why I expected anything like "even if he won the Cobbler of the Year award, he would not be able to mend this boot." After all, King's Quest V is not Noctropolis.
I met a woman with a tattoo of a snake wrapped around her thigh and devouring its own tail and a woman with butterflies and masks tattooed on her leg and a fairy and butterfly on her back.
I had a fish taco. I don't know what the fish was seasoned with but it was haddock (still haven't been able to make those sumac-seasoned sole tacos), with crema, cabbage, pickled red onions, chipotle salsa, and microgreens.
burning question: Seriously, how is New Romantics such a good song?
I never really got into them (I have no idea how anyone could call Velocity:Design:Comfort the seventh best shoegaze album of all time, because it really just sounds like someone took the actual seventh best shoegaze of all time and then rubbed rusty nails over it) and I’m kinda glad there are only about two Sweet Trip songs I like (And I’m kind of ambiguous about Orange Freeze but it follows three good songs on Orange) but it’s still a sad end for the last of the Dreams by Degrees bands.
Crystal Castles is a band I dismissed back before and it's probably because they had a following on Gamingforce but I have no idea because vbulletin's search feature is atrocious when it comes to multiple words. Especially multiple common words.
I've had those thoughts simmering around since May.
The Landmarks Orchestra quietly put up a few of their commissioned works on their website. I’m still waiting for the full performance of Views instead of just fragmemnts, and I’m waiting for Pegasus Promenade, but hey, we get Elements. And we get Anke Dje, Anke Be, even if you actually have to look for it now.
Because it's July 6, here are some other things I’ve been discovering and listening to a lot this year:
Remember: these are new things. I’ve also been listening to a lot of John Adams and Deftones but those aren’t new to me so I’m not going to list them here.
Talking Heads - Heaven
Clairo - Just For Today
Nico Muhly - How Little You Are
King Crimson - Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Part One
Berlin - Heartstrings - Used in Spaceballs
Coral Moons - For You
Feathermerchants - Syracuse
Slow Dress - Butterfly
Tamikrest - Adounia Mahegagh
The Friel Sisters - McCahill’s/The Pigeon on the Gate
Night Fruit - Sea Blood
Violet Nox - Nebula
Gabriella Smith - Carrot Revolution
Empress Of - Water Water
Gems - w/o u
Grimes - Artangels
Halsey - You Asked For This
Steve Reich - Variations for Winds, Strings, and Keyboards
Carl Nielsen - Symphony no. 2
Arnold Bax - Symphony no. 5
Lastlings - Held Under
Divine Sweater - Out For July
Bohuslav Martinu - Symphony no. 4
Lou Harrison - Symphony no. 3
Radiohead - Follow Me Around
Bent Shapes - Samantha West - hey, Ben was in my homeroom class throughout high school. Three years of loyal servitude, he says, and they repaid him by giving him the worst locker.
Tideline - Seasons - I’m not sure if it’s the Christian Gilbert. I mean, the band is Belgian and Christian Gilbert plays drums here, not guitar, so probably not.
Star Ghost Dog - Holiday
Epic45 - Here Lies Summer - Fuck you, Japanese record companies and your Japan-only bonus tracks for bands that nobody in Japan actually listens to. Epic45 put it on their bandcamp.
So I did a thing that satisfies my curiosity: In King's Quest V, I was wondering what would happen if I offered the old boot you find in the desert to the cobbler in the town to see if the cobbler or narrator says anything and the answer is, you get the same generic response you'd get if you were to offer him the marionette or the old wand or the locket (I assume that in the NES version, there's a way to generate a password that would give you an item you can't have in that area). I don't know why I expected anything like "even if he won the Cobbler of the Year award, he would not be able to mend this boot." After all, King's Quest V is not Noctropolis.
I met a woman with a tattoo of a snake wrapped around her thigh and devouring its own tail and a woman with butterflies and masks tattooed on her leg and a fairy and butterfly on her back.
I had a fish taco. I don't know what the fish was seasoned with but it was haddock (still haven't been able to make those sumac-seasoned sole tacos), with crema, cabbage, pickled red onions, chipotle salsa, and microgreens.
burning question: Seriously, how is New Romantics such a good song?
