Not a hard sell AT ALL for me, dan. I love listening to it in the car and I started to do something with it that I haven't done in a long time: when I park my vehicle, I only get out of it when the song I'm listening is finished.
"How much you’d appreciate Plant’s first two solo albums likely depends on how much you appreciate the more synth-oriented moments on In Through The Out Door."
It pains me that ITTOD gets still gets no respect nowadays. It is the album with the most stellar Bonham drumming and where John Paul Jones really showed a new direction for the band that was really ahead of its time. No Robert Plant solo album got even close to the quality of that amazing record.
I love Bon Iver and Blogotheque, but this is not One to One but rather One To One For Everybody Else To Watch Afterwards. Hello Internet, Goodbye Intimacy and Privacy. Strange times.
My country has been on fire in the last four months. More than one hundred of my fellow citizens died in the flames, hectares of forests and innumerable houses burnt down. My grandfather built with his own hands back in 1950 a well fifteen meters deep. It never went dry, ever, until two weeks ago. This has been the driest summer I have lived in my life: all the grass is grey, ashes keep falling on our heads, the smell of smoke has been permanent for weeks in everything I breathe. My two year old son has sores in his nostrils caused by the incandescent air we breathe. Believe me: it only takes one Portuguese to tell you how climate change is horribly real.
I totally agree with you. To apply statistics in order to chose who to side with is just stupid and wrong. Kinda frIghtning how many people upvoted Bloc's comment.
This guy has never ever let me down. Everything he touches is gold to me. This has the energy of a debut album, it's like discovering him all over again.
To defend monoculture is really to have a very narrow view of both culture and the world, an inability to understand that people will keep listening, reading, viewing and enjoying things in ways that are strange to ourselves.
Case in point. I listen to a lot a music, spend tons of money in it and I am a regular reader of Stereogum. I have, honestly, never ever heard of Party in USA. Does that make me an alien?
Present Tense is just perfect. But Smother and Two Dancers were also great. I also liked thir debut and Boy King is an album that is still growing in me. One of the best bands of the new millenium. Period.
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