this song got it all. a swedish artist singing in patois, a festival-era skrillex vocal chop bass drop, and singing about spooning. gotta be some of the most out of pocket lyrics out there. all around just a crazy song to exist.
SPOON ME 🙌😫😫
(hands on my boobie yeah)🙂↕️🙂↕️
SPOON ME😤😤
(dick on my booty now)😩😩
Jan 13, 2025
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Sep 15, 2024
This track is the most spin-able cut off of Boy imo. On "Say It Again" 2hollis follows up on the album's previous ambient track "Say It" with an unprecendented complextro type beat that borders on wub wub porn. He holds true on his signature style of bedroom talk lyricism that grants the listener a protagonist role and adds greatly to the weight of the supersaw stabs. I think of him as Dark Justin Bieber. P.S. im pretty sure this was the song that he devoted to skrillex on a rare ig story post.
Dec 30, 2024
ive had flop by bassvictim on repeat for the last two weeks.
i went to a dope party right at the end of the summer. real grown-up bohemian do that had a lot of the cooler members of staff from my art school there. feels juvenile and embarrassingly lame calling it ‘grown-up’, especially considering how hard i was playing it laissez faire, but we were the only graduates there so it felt really sweet to be permitted into the inner circle. good music, good people, a cauldron of shroom tea on the stove, all things that make for a good night if you ask me. i think this experience set the bar too high and jinxed me in a way because every nite out ive been on since has been awful. if its not lame people its lame music and if its not lame music its the very act of walking through the door triggering some cataclysmic imbalance of humours that makes one of us uncharacteristically ill but only for however long it takes for to uber back, after which a miraculous recovery ensues.
ive been mind numbingly bored for weeks. ive had not one lick of good entertainment. im fighting tooth and nail against the universe for my right to party. anyways ive been bumping flop like crazy for this reason. it embodies everything ive been feeling, taking a chance and staying for another song because ur not ready to write off your night just yet (and cos you’ve already copped yr ticket and cant find anyone else interested in buying it).
its burrowed its way thru my ear canal and has snuggly rooted itself deep within the folds of my brain tissue. the thing that makes it a total earworm for me is its kind of deranged interpolation of the pre chorus of wiley’s track wearing my rolex which is such a quintessentially british club classic and really contributes to the insane energy of flop. i cant listen to it without wanting to fling myself round the room. im a total victim of that fat bass <3
Oct 20, 2024
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I consume a lot of music regularly, and a huge part of keeping a fresh diet of new listens going is having enough sources of recommendations that aren’t an algorithm that either 1) reinforces your existing listening patterns, keeping you stagnant in your tastes, or 2) platforms whoever paid enough to push their product to the top, serving you something that may not inherently be of inferior quality, but may not align with your tastes, may not be exciting beyond just being a new release, and realigns your current listening habits to be more in line with what the average user on the platform is also listening to — which socially might have benefits but which creates a homogeneity of consumption that can become bland since you’re listening to something really just because it’s the next product on the assembly line to have its public moment and not because anything about the music actually captured your attention. the current landscape of streaming is designed to keep you at an all you can eat buffet where you take what’s served to you, and as a result a lot of us have forgotten how to look at a menu and order.
so what does taking a more active role in your own music curation look like? for me, it’s meant not using streaming as a primary listening platform. I mostly use my local Apple Music library on my phone that I curate with the vestigial iTunes Library framework that’s still a part of Apple Music on my laptop. probably going to find an alternative soon since apple seems to be cutting integration progressively. I like this method because it forces me to choose what to sync to the limited storage space I have, forcing me to take inventory of what I actually listen to and what I can offload. the files I get are mostly from Bandcamp or Soulseek depending on whether it’s available for purchase or entirely unavailable online (as is the case for a lot of electronic music that was on vinyl only, which is where soulseek comes in clutch). I also have freedom here to change the ID3 tags to better sort and organize, rate, change track info, and track my own listening data.
Bandcamp and other music purchasing platforms are great because 1) it reshapes my relationship to music away from consumerism and back towards curation. I have to pay actual money for this thing now if I want to use it, so i’m forced to consider its value (usually i’ll stream a release first to gauge my interest). 2) having to spend money helps me to course out my meals so to speak, as i’ll buy a few releases i’ve accumulated in my cart over the month and cash out on Bandcamp Friday when 100% of my money is actually getting to the artist (TOMORROW IS BANDCAMP FRIDAY BTW!!!), and between purchases I can actually chew and savor and digest my last orders, they don’t get swept up in the deluge of new releases. my plate is full until i’m done and then I order more. also for the times of the year like now when new music isn’t coming out as regularly I take time to find older music that I would normally overlook while keeping up with new drops. currently very into early 80s/late 70s music with early digital production, kinda stuff that would evolve into synthpop and dance music.
so how do you know what to order? for me, I’m getting recs through trusted curation platforms. whether it’s bandcamp daily, y’all lovely folks here on PI.FYI, friends, or most importantly musicians who I follow on socials that share their tastes through posts, stories, playlists on steaming, interviews, etc. I like this last one especially because it’s kind of like a musical game of telephone. if I like an artist and they share their interests and influences it’s like every layer in this process is stretching my palate further from the sound that I was originally interested in and into a new territory that has some shared DNA but would never have been recommended to me by an algo because there’s no shared category or label between them, only the musical influence and interpretation of it made by the artist. as an example, I was a huge Skrillex stan, he signed KOAN Sound to his label, they collab with Asa who collabs with Sorrow, Sorrow takes huge influence from Burial, Burial makes some ambient adjacent stuff and takes huge influence from 90s rave music and drum and bass and 2000s rnb, now i’m listening to Brandy - All in Me, William Basinski, Aphex Twin, none on whom would get recommended by Spotify to me from Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.
LAST thing i’ll say — because in yappin about this i’m realizing how actually passionate about this subject I am: MAKE LISTS! playlists are cool, but they can flatten your music into vague categories of “vibes” and “aesthetics” and encourage picking one-off songs from artists that you never form an active audience relationship with. I make a practice of making my own year end lists of top 25 albums (plus some honorable recs and top individual songs) and keeping them in a notes doc that I regularly update and rearrange over the course of the year. this forces me to consider the actual relationship i’m forming with what i’ve ordered for myself. did I like it in the moment but it didn’t have staying power? is it slowly growing on me? it also encourages taking albums as a whole. maybe I liked one or two tracks a lot but the rest wasn't resonating. that’s ok! maybe I rank it lower but now i’ve actually taken time to consider it, it’s in my library, and maybe (quite a few cases for me) something I ranked like bottom 5 albums becomes a retroactive favorite from that year as my tastes evolve. also 25 albums to take with me from each year is really more than you'd think, i struggle sometimes to even find 25 that I formed a true connection with. I think the biggest thing the itunes era ruined that led into now is the single-ification of music, the ability to separate the hits from the deep cuts. albums are meant to be taken as a whole, and then once you've really sat with the whole you can find what actually stuck. even then I like to keep the whole around because soooo often i’ll write off a track that yeeeears later I come to love. trust the artist, they made it like they did for a reason.
aaannyyyywayy TLDR: get recs organically, be more active in deciding your listening patterns, fr*cken pay artists yall, trust the artist embrace the album, really consider what you consume
Feb 29, 2024
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