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Holy Fawn demonstrates a mastery of controlling the ebb and flow of emotions in all their work. They take you from restrained intros and verses setting up the atmosphere with ethereal, droning melodies and vocals into swelling and intense choruses and instrumentals with fuzzy, distorted guitar and screaming vocals. I've never been a fan of screaming vocals but they use it so effectively and so selectively to add energy at just the right moment in the song. Nothing is used excessively, everything is in good taste, all of it culminating in an engaging journey through a mystical fantasy world. Best enjoyed at the loudest tolerable volume.
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đ€This is one of my favorite albums in my library. Phantom Spire is a black metal artist from Albany, New York. His sound design and vocal style is very beautiful. The perfect amount of distortion and very melancholy, atmospheric beats.
Jul 28, 2023
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What if the entire Splice library was launched into the ether, prompting a Pokemon-esque scavenger hunt to catch âem all? This is what ear pulls off. And yet, the duoâs voices are the best instruments in the mix. Chopped notes and cheeky whispers and sharp breaths abound in their latest singles, âFetishâ and âValley Serpent.â A cut-and-sew craft project of a song, âFetishâ shows impressive restraint for as long as possible before mutating multiple times. Itâs not just a glazed ambient track, or bass-boosted electronic, or .5 speed breakcore. The disjointed lyrics are hypnotically aphasic, as if having a stroke could be a beautiful experience. âValley Serpentâ has the same structureless setup, shrouding a poignant piano ballad in blown-out artificial noise. For all they add, they know when to get minimal. The gentle recitation âfeels like a burdenâ is scripted to haunt. The most Lynchian release of the year!
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Jul 17, 2025
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Really cool spooky rap project with ex-catholic girl rage undertones that push you to find solace in nothing but yourself.
only i am holy, only i am hell
only i am holy, only i am hell
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âEmpathy helps you understand why someone feels the way they feel without forcing you to accept that they are correct to feel that way. You can walk a mile in someoneâs shoes and then turn around and tell them their shoes are shit and recommend new ones.
Tolerance makes you blind to the injustices of the world and forces you to accept even the most disgusting of viewpoints as âequalâ.
Example: You can empathize with a racist. You can understand the cultural brainwashing that led to it. But you shouldnât be tolerant of it. Plus, being empathetic to why they feel that way makes them more comfortable doing the same in return. Hostility breeds hostility. Empathy breeds empathy. Empathy brings us all together.
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đIt's one of the most wild and mind bending philosophy/psychology books I've ever read. It almost encourages you to give up and put the book down in frustration. It feels like it's aim is to so completely break down the way we conventionally approach mental illness and the larger human experience that it speaks in borderline gibberish at times, requiring you to fundamentally alter your mindset to even begin to understand what they are talking about.
"It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id. Everywhere it is machinesâreal ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven by other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections. An organ-machine is plugged into an energy-source-machine: the one produces a flow that the other interrupts. The breast is a machine that produces milk, and the mouth a machine coupled to it. The mouth of the anorexic wavers between several functions: its possessor is uncertain as to whether it is an eating-machine, an anal machine, a talking-machine, or a breathing machine (asthma attacks). Hence we are all handymen: each with his little machines."