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Grouplove - Big Mess Brock C – 2016

fun indie pop for when you’re running around on a sunny day, though dude’s endearing west coast vocal inflections can get a little tiring after a sustained listen. the first two tracks are the best of the album (i think, i might’ve just tuned out after 4-5 songs), and in that order. if you don’t like “welcome to your life” or “do you love someone” i doubt you’ll like the record. the former has been on rotation for me, and i feel like the latter will creep in once i’m tired of “welcome to your life”, but it’s essentially just a good pick-and-choose-one-or-two-songs-when-you’re-in-the-mood kind of record.

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added at October 19th, 2016 17:34
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Daughter - Not To Disappear Brock C – 2016

as a fan of reverb (see: ben howard’s i forget where we were) i’m sort of drawn to the dark-sounding indie folk of daughter, and keep “youth” in steady rotation. but the blending of the atmospheric sounds from song to song make it difficult to remain gripped by it for the entire record.

“how” was an early favorite that i’ve listened to quite a bit, and “don’t care” was a surprisingly nice upbeat change nearing the back end of the album. but to want to return to the full album means a full 47 minutes of reverb melancholia. in the right wintery/nighttime mood, perhaps, but i can’t see myself pushing through the entire record more than once or twice despite most individual songs holding up fine on their own.

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added at October 19th, 2016 17:19
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Arca - Entrañas Brock C – 2016

neither pleasing nor cathartic, which would seem to preclude quality, yet entrañas (translates to “entrails”) provokes, prods, and challenges in a way that engaged like little else defined #music can. skin-crawling moments like the “cement garden” interlude highlight a trying listen, and though i’m not sure it’s #rewarding, it causes emotion. i may never listen to entrañas again, but its dark, eerie, sludge captures arca’s singular dread that he’s lent to the likes of fka twigs, yeezus, and björk. it’s burial if burial were perpetually held to boil without evaporating.

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added at October 18th, 2016 06:27
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this is what happens when you listen to a @nietzsche recommendation

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The Cubs took a PR hit when they acquired the fireballing but controversial Chapman. On the field, he turned the back of the bullpen into one of the best in baseball, (provided he, Strop and Rondon are healthy for the postseason). Chapman will be a free agent after the season, and if... MLB: How Theo Epstein transformed the Cubs roster

the fact that his domestic violence case wasn’t even brought up here – instead minimized with “controversial” – is a small part of the large problem that surrounds the sporting industry

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...in's uncanny ability to part with a solid contributor who still held trade value but nevertheless was on the cusp of a major drop-off. Dempster put up an 89 ERA+ for Texas and Boston before retiring. He returned to Chicago and drops by Wrigley Field from time to time to do his famed Harry Caray impression. Hendricks, meanwhile, was the only qualified MLB starter with a sub-2.20 ERA and a hard-hit rate below 10 percent ... MLB: How Theo Epstein transformed the Cubs roster

i.e. he is an assistant in the front office for the Cubs

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...as a hard-throwing, underperforming starting pitcher; Rizzo is now an MVP candidate and is probably at least the co-face of the franchise. Cashner has gone 29-47 with a 94 ERA+ since leaving Chicago. (The MLB average ERA+ in 2016 was 101.) MLB: How Theo Epstein transformed the Cubs roster

the fundamental idea of ERA+ and other adjusted stats of its ilk is that league average is set at 100…

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Joyce Manor - Cody Brock C – 2016

wow. something about this feels like high school, despite the fact that i listened to almost exclusively rap back then, and that the quality is awesome (retrospection is a bitch re: teenage music taste)

typical punk/emo theme of struggling young adulthood, but incredibly melodic and and yet somehow reminiscent. like a more upbeat american football. quick 24 minute listen, but very rewarding after my first two spins.

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Dawes - We're All Gonna Die Brock C – 2016

what i like to call gateway indie

some okay moments if you dig, but mostly just meh paint-by-numbers indie rock

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In my seventeen years of music consumption, I have discovered two types of people: those who delve into Genius.com and learn the meaning behind every lyric of every song and those who hum along blindly to the songs they listen to. Whether you learn for yourself or someone tells you the meanings you may have missed, you’re bound to find songs that defy your expectations. Sometimes sad songs sound happy, or sometimes angry soundi... Voyager | Lyrical Dissonance

my lil sister is dope

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Paramind Bon Iver – 29 #Strafford APTS
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A Justin Vernon neologism, “paramind” draws upon Ancient Greek etymology of the prefix “para-”, typically meant to indicate beside, beyond, outside of, or against. It poetically marks Vernon’s transcendence beyond “positionality”, from being “In the stair up off the hot car lot” to being in a “living dream” hauled away, and becoming a word “off the page.”

“Paramind”, then, seem to connote auxiliary thoughts, perhaps recalling the idioms “in the back of (one’s) mind” or “out of sight, out of mind”, or perhaps fragments of thoughts and memories beyond words.

It may also convey a kind of transcendence that takes place. As opposed to having something “on your mind,” something is taking place beyond comprehension. Even with the ambiguity of the double negative that follows (“There ain’t no meaning anymore”), there appears to be both meaning and nothingness at once. As much as there exists an inner quality that makes up who we are, there exists only us in relation to the ones we are with.

The line “Paramind” operates as the chorus equivalent and contrast to the line “Canonize”. Where “paramind” takes us past where we were before, “canonize” calls on us to treat what was as something to remember and adore. The words describe the tensions, passions, and experiences of romance, even as the song as a whole subtly acknowledges that nothing adequately describes this.

“Paramind” is phonetically similar to the word “paramour,” which means a secret or an illicit lover. “Paramind” takes on its own meaning, but evoking “paramour” seems intentional, given the use of “alimony butterflies” in the third chorus.

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In his Reddit AMA on October 22, 2019, he stated that the word means to him “multiple minds existing as One mind!”

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The word differs from “paranoid,” which commonly characterizes one’s irrational fears and distrust, usually without hallucinations; here, “marijuana paranoid” is also inapt to describe the surfacing of repressed emotions and the “thinking outside yourself” effect on the mind that tends to be associated with marijuana.

The word also differs from “paracosm”, which is an imaginary world inside one’s mind. As opposed using a word to describe dreaming up an alternative universe, here “paramind” is used to better describe the cosmic shift happening in the mind itself.

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