Pretty exciting that, instead of becoming the one hit wonder he was seemingly destined to be, Lil Nas X has become our first true pop star shitposter. It's fantastic. Also that song has been in my head for days so he's pretty good at the music thing too.
First an album about spiritual struggle and now an album set in the appalachian foothills? I seem to be so specifically the audience for this guy's work that it's kind of unnerving.
I'm excited for this shift. The gap between the styles of S/T and "Masseducation" never felt very wide to me as the last record suffered for it (not that it was bad just not as good). Excited to hear her switch it up again.
That is exactly what modernity is! There is no center, so we spin around a handful of referents hoping that we'll fill up the void. But, like you said, entropy - maybe when it fizzles out, we'll be on to something new.
Ah the irony is too much. "Printer's Devil" was a big part of my early lockdown soundtrack, especially on aimless drives to get out of the house.
..............I am so tired of this endless year.
"Cave's depiction of divine intervention is beautiful and terrible in a manner that reminds me of "Seven Swans" by Cave's fellow Flannery O'Connor reader Sufjan Stevens — or maybe Spiritualized if Jason Pierce dropped the drug metaphors and mainlined the book of Revelation instead."
This is a hell of a description and exactly spot on.
Still not over the irony of writing an album ruminating about whether or not a life of music is worth it and then the pandemic happens. Shit sucks.
Anyway def looking forward to this. Real Estate rules.
You know, they could just go ahead and break up. Or transition to releasing music under +44, or whatever. It's so easy not to keep doing this to their legacy.
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