What an amazing song and last album by these legends. Heavy sad vibes with vocoder and unexpected, overblown distortion that sounds like your speakers are completely blown out. The fact that Mimi passed shortly after this record was released makes it more meaningful and heavy, but hard to deny the sorrow, joy and release that this song delivers
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My own record and I’m recommending it because I rly like it and just put it out. For fans of heavy sad rock music, emo, shoegaze :)
Jun 12, 2024
Oct 1, 2024
It’s such an uncompromising song, it tackles grief and the processing of it in a vulnerable but ultimately human way. The production (credit to Benjamin Booker & Kenny Segal) is unsettling but warm, like you know that it can only get better but you have to just sit and deal with the discomfort of your current situation in order to get there.
There’s a delicate piano melody that fades in and out of the mix alongside the faint hum of a guitar making what is in concept a experimental rap song into something different, the ‘rapping’ is more like spoken word poetry. Benjamin Bookers intro despite being repetitive due to his relaying of ‘I was only a dove, only in love’ is made so powerful due to how worn out and whispery his voice is, like it’s a memory of a loved one haunting you.
Which in turn fades into billy woods’ verse which reads more like poetry than a rap verse. Some of my favourite lines being: ‘They called like "Come now, he doesn't have long to live", I dress slowly, Came back that night and took my baby out the crib so I could hold him’ or ‘Locked doors never had a key but you test the handle occasionally, God forbid it swing open” “Attic stairs broken, don't go up there, From the windows i watch the diggers disappear in soft wet earth, Dinner served, i waited for my guests, long table set.’ It’s so bleak but perfectly describes the little moments of discomfort you feel when losing someone and I think it works perfectly combined with how minimalistic the production is.
The closing segment from ELUCID is a lot grander in scale and thematically darker, the production starts to get corrupted with static crackles slowly consuming each layer of the instrumental whilst ELUCID foretells the impending end. It’s a sucker punch that catches you out but it works due to how the song is structured all the emotions caused by loss are only told about up until this point and ELUCIDs part represents the listener tackling them head-on. It’s uncomfortable and you’ll probably skip it on relisten (hell I often do) but I think it’s purpose is so powerful and as a whole the song is incredibly thought provoking.
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I would add bananas too, as a magical trio. Toast some bread and slap these together and feel the love.
Aug 24, 2024
Brand new single from Mk.gee. Same vibes as the album from earlier this year. It sounds like driving alone at night and feeling your feelings. He’s on tour and I’m seeing him next Friday. Link to song here.
Aug 30, 2024