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compiled by eckhard ehlers, it is childish music 🍼( 2001). I have been waiting for this album and for anne laplantine to blow up for the past couple years
Discovered amidst lockdown as a childish teen adult (now im a childish adult adult.) Features some fantastic childish artists like Anne Laplantine and Nobukazu Takemura and F.s. Blumm whom i was delighted to see upon initial discovery
The devandra banhart song is not that great. unfortunately
Favorite tracks: Falling down a dam of mashed potatos by lawrence Lets pretend by la grande illusion Humidity of mountains by arrow tour Fa by f.s. Blumm Alles glühen by kammerflimmer kollektief December anne laplantine Noaro kazumasa hashimoto
Discovered amidst lockdown as a childish teen adult (now im a childish adult adult.) Features some fantastic childish artists like Anne Laplantine and Nobukazu Takemura and F.s. Blumm whom i was delighted to see upon initial discovery
The devandra banhart song is not that great. unfortunately
Favorite tracks: Falling down a dam of mashed potatos by lawrence Lets pretend by la grande illusion Humidity of mountains by arrow tour Fa by f.s. Blumm Alles glühen by kammerflimmer kollektief December anne laplantine Noaro kazumasa hashimoto
Jan 23, 2024
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Concept albums sometimes get a bad rap as the musical equivalent of "eating your spinach:" lengthy, dense, subject to being over-analyzed, with allegorical significance assigned to every word. Listening to one can sound a lot like "work" which often isn't consistent with "just enjoying the music."
But despite its consistent motif, it would be a mistake to treat Neutral Milk Hotel’s second studio album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea like a scavenger hunt. Jeff Mangum, the frontman and creative force behind the band, recognized the album as directly influenced by reading The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank. But for all the linear references to our young departed heroine, there's a lot of Mangum’s own autobiography, philosophy and observation in there. Plus some damn good tunes.
The Diary of a Young Girl is a coming of age story that is cut short, before revelation and maturation. On the album, Mangum grieves the loss of Frank, as well as a collective loss of innocence. The very first words sung on the album, “when you were young,” set the tone for all that follows, which is a combination of freakshow ephemera, slapstick violence, and the technicolor dreamcoat that would come to signify "psych-folk" as it was practiced at that point (late 1990s).
I saw Mangum and company play this album in its entirety in Seattle many years later and I'll be damned if its capacity to both amaze and confound wasn't still fully intact. I can't encourage you enough to listen to this full album and give in to its music box charms and bizarro-world imagery and storytelling.
But despite its consistent motif, it would be a mistake to treat Neutral Milk Hotel’s second studio album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea like a scavenger hunt. Jeff Mangum, the frontman and creative force behind the band, recognized the album as directly influenced by reading The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank. But for all the linear references to our young departed heroine, there's a lot of Mangum’s own autobiography, philosophy and observation in there. Plus some damn good tunes.
The Diary of a Young Girl is a coming of age story that is cut short, before revelation and maturation. On the album, Mangum grieves the loss of Frank, as well as a collective loss of innocence. The very first words sung on the album, “when you were young,” set the tone for all that follows, which is a combination of freakshow ephemera, slapstick violence, and the technicolor dreamcoat that would come to signify "psych-folk" as it was practiced at that point (late 1990s).
I saw Mangum and company play this album in its entirety in Seattle many years later and I'll be damned if its capacity to both amaze and confound wasn't still fully intact. I can't encourage you enough to listen to this full album and give in to its music box charms and bizarro-world imagery and storytelling.
Jul 25, 2024
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Here are my fav records that I have been listening to lately, this lineup strikes me as very "pi.fyi-core". Hope you enjoy :)
(in order of appearance)
-Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Lovelyville <discovered this reading some Robert Schneider interviews after seeing the Apples in Stereo play for the W.C. Hart memorial show in Athens>
-DJO: The Crux <That guy from Stranger Things has a set of pipes, great happy album>
Panda Bear: Sinister Gift <sounds like The Beach Boys! the parts that don't are kinda atmospheric and very very pretty>
Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE <he strikes again. very stripped back but absolutely gorgeous. Justin literally can not make a song that isnt somehow lush and cold at the same, like being covered in a sheet of ice that keeps you warm. He has this interview where he talks about the work and thought process behind it. Very cool!>
Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong <this album features almost entirely female vocals, a nice change since Issac Wood left the band, and the vocals, piano, and woodwind instumetaion are just absolutely gorgeous, sounds like rain smells.
Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal <since half of this app is from Brooklyn, I'm sure you know this guy! He sings for the band Geese, but this record doesn't sound much like Geese at all. It has some of the craziest lyrics.I have heard in a hot minute, and is adorned by ~usually~ sparse and skeletal instruments, as well as Camerons odd yet alluring voice.
Hope you enjoy! lmk what you think of these records :)
-Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Lovelyville <discovered this reading some Robert Schneider interviews after seeing the Apples in Stereo play for the W.C. Hart memorial show in Athens>
-DJO: The Crux <That guy from Stranger Things has a set of pipes, great happy album>
Panda Bear: Sinister Gift <sounds like The Beach Boys! the parts that don't are kinda atmospheric and very very pretty>
Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE <he strikes again. very stripped back but absolutely gorgeous. Justin literally can not make a song that isnt somehow lush and cold at the same, like being covered in a sheet of ice that keeps you warm. He has this interview where he talks about the work and thought process behind it. Very cool!>
Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong <this album features almost entirely female vocals, a nice change since Issac Wood left the band, and the vocals, piano, and woodwind instumetaion are just absolutely gorgeous, sounds like rain smells.
Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal <since half of this app is from Brooklyn, I'm sure you know this guy! He sings for the band Geese, but this record doesn't sound much like Geese at all. It has some of the craziest lyrics.I have heard in a hot minute, and is adorned by ~usually~ sparse and skeletal instruments, as well as Camerons odd yet alluring voice.
Hope you enjoy! lmk what you think of these records :)
Apr 26, 2025
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Listening to this album recently has made me feel slightly less insane about the state of *my* life and the world in general (ironically I am allergic to peanuts)
Rec’ing the whole album, but my most played songs are: Top Level Joy, I Was There, That’s Life, S.U.R.V.I.V.E, Big Machine, Nitrogen
*I’m tender and buttons* *and cursed with nostalgia* *I read a book once that said it’s a disorder*
I wish I was there, I wish I was there, I wish I was there—
*No one wants to talk about the downturn* *or the self decaying nature of everything we know*
Get me out of here, get me out of here, get me out of here—
Rec’ing the whole album, but my most played songs are: Top Level Joy, I Was There, That’s Life, S.U.R.V.I.V.E, Big Machine, Nitrogen
*I’m tender and buttons* *and cursed with nostalgia* *I read a book once that said it’s a disorder*
I wish I was there, I wish I was there, I wish I was there—
*No one wants to talk about the downturn* *or the self decaying nature of everything we know*
Get me out of here, get me out of here, get me out of here—
Mar 4, 2025
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🤳That rlly good fitting room selfie you posted a week ago on ur story.. post it again for tumblr. And ur public spam account. and in ur tiktok compilations. Make it the profile pic for an app u half care about. Gotta stretch that selfie capital as much as u possibly can amirite
Ur real friends r the ones u have on every platform to c u posting the same things over and over again for ur various audiences
Ur real friends r the ones u have on every platform to c u posting the same things over and over again for ur various audiences
Feb 25, 2024
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Korean films from the 2000s are the best best best. Incredibly funny and epic in terms of storytelling while shot gorgeously w korean fashion styles of 2001. The ending is set up so perfectly 🌳 Jun ji hyun ultimate female lead see Il Mare (2000) another masterpiece though that ones much more ambient <3
Another 🇰🇷 romcom watch: The beast and the beauty (2005)
Another 🇰🇷 romcom watch: The beast and the beauty (2005)
Jan 24, 2024
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🦷Breaking out into 2024 this is my new biggest obsesione 🫦 xylitol! You can go into any hippie store or apothecary or local korean grocer and find some form of xylitol toothpaste or gum to help remineralize ur teeth after a meal when ur mouth is all full of digestive acid ✨ the way ive been telling people is that in the US we use fluoride - keeps us prone to fluoride staring and our brains smooth for the government obvs - bad. while in other, more socialist countries they use xylitol - Good😃!
Im just kidding obviously. i have no idea whats happening in the rest of the world.
Im just kidding obviously. i have no idea whats happening in the rest of the world.
Jan 20, 2024