I was so grateful when that album came out and I really enjoyed it at the time. To my ears, the first disc has not aged well, but the songs on the second one never left me throughout the past 20 years.
Oh boy, I haven't listened to anything else in the past two days. If I have loved it on first listens, now it is easily one of my favourite record of recent years.
An album immediately comes to mind when I listen to it: Serge Gainsbourg's L'Homme À Tête de Chou. Give a try, you won't regret it.
I am really enjoying this one. Not as much as say, Jack White last album (which was also pretty badly reviewed), but I feel it will further grow on me. Looks like my personal tastes are drifting away from 2018's coolness.
This fella can do no wrong in my book. Also: pretty underwhelmed with Janelle's last album. Hope it will grow on me though coz I have loved everything she has done so far.
You are not alone. But, probably unlike you, I treasure albums judged by many people as masterpieces that I can not get into because I know that there is a big probablity that I will eventually fell under their spell. This happened to me, for instance, with Spoon’s Transference last year: how I hated that record and now I think it’s my favourite from them.
Nevertheless, today, Portishead debut is still my favourite of them: such an amazing combination of voice, sounds, vibes and moods that turned my head upside down when I was 19 years old. Probably the most important piece of music in my life.
"I actually don’t think that we’ve given him the benefit of the doubt. Giving him the benefit of the doubt is understanding that his mother’s death was never resolved in his head and he probably sees himself as accountable for that death. Giving him the benefit of the doubt is recognizing that his wife was at the hands of robbers and gunpoint at a moment that he could not actually do anything. Giving him the benefit of the doubt is realizing that he just got off of a rehabilitation stint and is spending time with his kids and trying to make sense of the world within that context rather than giving over to public popular visibility.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt is also recognizing that in context of black iconography in this country, it is always easier to deem black folks “crazy” than it is to understand the complex layering that is a person like Kanye West." - quote from a very interesting interview on Pitchfork.
You two guys have warmed my heart with this exchange. Johnny named the three albums that I like the most from them and Dollface expressed an argument that I have used many times in conversations with my friends about music and bands we love. But I still hope the Lips will someday deliver something that will reinforce my love with them. Massive Attack did it two years ago, so why can’t they?
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