Favourite Albums

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

Two new album overviews coming your way. ^-^
(blue = favourites, green = favourite of the album)



1. Intro
2. When a Fire Starts to Burn
3. Latch (ft. Sam Smith)
4. F For You
5. White Noise (ft. AlunaGeorge)
6. Defeated No More (ft. Ed Macfarlane)
7. Stimulation
8. Voices (ft. Sasha Keable)
9. Second Choice
10. Grab Her!
11. You & Me (ft. Eliza Doolittle)
12. January (ft. Jamie Woon)
13. Confess To Me (ft. Jessie Ware)
14. Help Me Lose My Mind (ft. London Grammar)

My fave of this album was extremely torn between either Latch or January, as I love both of them almost equally.
But I just had to choose Latch. If you've heard the song before or heard Disclosure's other stuff, you'd know why. It's just so ♥♥♥♥ well written, oh my god, THIS IS WHAT MAKES ME PROUD TO BE BRITISH, PEOPLE. And Sam Smith is an a.m.a.z.i.n.g vocalist.

Next album:


(DELUXE EDITION)

1. Outlines
2. You Know You Like It
3. Attracting Flies
4. Your Drums, Your Love
5. Kaleidoscope Love
6. Bad Idea
7. Diver
8. Lost and Found
9. Best Be Believing
10. Superstar
11. Just a Touch
12. Body Music
13. Friends to Lovers
14. This Is How We Do It
15. We Are Chosen
16. Indestructible
17. Watching Over You
18. Put Up Your Hands
19. B Ur Boo

As you can tell from the genres, I'm getting into more techno stuff now. Partly thanks to my college course, but also just because the techno music in this country is really developing and I'm seriously impressed.
With this one, I was once again torn between 2 favourites. Best Be Believing or Kaleidoscope Love? Both are really catchy, I love Kaleidoscope Love because it's a beautiful, beautiful song with beautiful lyrics and the harmonies are friggin AMAZING. Gonna have to convince my friend to sing it with me. But at the end of it, I chose Best Be Believing because it's one of those songs that, even if I listened to it every day for 50 years, it would still feel fresh and exciting. It's such a feel good song, and whoamagod the chords are awesome. ^_^

So yay.

[Kimonio]

Unrelated but related, Heavenly's album, set to come out in September. Don't even have to hear it to know it's going to be another favorite.

[Chaukai]

What is your favourite album and why is it Tourist History

[Oranjui]

This post by Oranjui was thumbed up by:

PositronWildhawk (October 17th, 2015, 10:23 pm)

[MessengerOfDreams]

My favorite album in the center <3

[Panik!]

Yesss. I love them so much.

Anyways, I think I've found my all-time favorite artist. I've been listening to their two albums for months on end and neither has grown stale. Absolute favorite tracks are starred. I dislike nothing this group has created.



Purity Ring - Shrines

1. Crawlersout
2. Fineshrine*
3. Ungirthed*
4. Amenamy*
5. Grandloves
6. Cartographist*
7. Belispeak*
8. Saltkin*
9. Obedear*
10. Lofticries
11. Shuck

It's hard to describe Shrines without just listening to it. Each song seems more like a variation on an incredibly innovative idea. Purity Ring combines hard trap and hip-hop-inspired beats with swelling bass which all underlie Megan James' saccharine delivery of highly personal and grotesque lyrics. On "Fineshrine," she sings "Cut open my sternum and pull my little ribs around you." It's these visceral lyrics that make even the more light-sounding songs on the album tinged with darkness and mystery and it's ridiculously addictive. This is experimental pop at its best.



Purity Ring - another eternity

1. heartsigh
2. bodyache*
3. push pull*
4. repetition*
5. stranger than earth*
6. begin again
7. dust hymn
8. flood on the floor*
9. sea castle*
10. stillness in woe*

For all those who screamed "sophomore slump" at another eternity, I beg to differ. Yes, the warbled bass and pitch-shifted sampling has been replaced by smoother bass and lush synths, but Purity Ring couldn't continue to experiment with their sound from Shrines over and over again. This album finds itself neatly between modern pop music and what Purity Ring established in their first album. Lyrics are less cryptic (although James still love throwing in shocking imagery i.e. in "repetition," "watching me is like watching the fire take your eyes from you"), hooks are incredibly sticky, and each song sounds more like an actual song than a variation on an idea. Though not as ground-breaking as Shrines, their second album is a perfectly listenable pop album.

[Oranjui]

i developed a small amount of not ♥♥♥♥ taste

[MessengerOfDreams]

Broooooooooooooo

[l.m]

Wow OJ did you steal my taste

[Oranjui]

Oh No Not Again



In no particular order -- Neat Beats - Cosmic Surgery; Tycho - Dive; M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts; Emancipator - Soon It Will Be Cold Enough; Darren Korb/Ashley Barrett - Transistor OST (probably my #1); Eluvium - Copia; M83 - Junk; Porter Robinson - Worlds; The xx - Coexist

I would probably just make a 3x3 consisting entirely of M83 and Eluvium albums but that felt cheap. Also oh no I don't have a single Explosions In The Sky album on there