10/10 folk album, it's incredibly intimate and thorough
my fav song is half return
(ty to that one talking stage for showing me her solo work)
Jan 20, 2025
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This has been one of the most formative and transformative albums to enter my little world, and it has seen me through many iterations of growth over the past 10 plus years. All of Angel’s work is stunning in its own right, and I admire her and the way she continues to experiment with her sound and new genres, but her debut album Half Way Home will forever live inside the most tender place in my heart. The control she has over her voice is mystifying; she yodels, croons, shrieks and hums. And the writing is as profound as the melodies are. I couldn’t possibly pick a favorite from the album, but some of my current favorites are Safe In the Womb, Free, and You Are Song. Bonus: This softly powerful performance Angel gave of Miranda at Grant Street Bakery in 2012.
May 4, 2025
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very yummy album 10/10 think about it a lot
Oct 2, 2024
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Beautiful less-known pop album with bits of jazz, I love every song on this one
I'll review a few of my favorite songs instead of the whole tracklist:
Phases - Not a big fan of the wordplay in the beginning but it's a nice intro, the rest of the song has beautiful syncopation and instrumentation and this sax solo that is just fantastic
I Am Close to The River - Amazing piano, lyrics and vibe, probably my favorite song on the album
Everything is Different (To Me) - Groovy song with painfully relatable lyrics
It's a great album and an easy listen, something I love to play in the car when I'm with other people
9/10
May 20, 2025
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okay, so this is a french animated movie that came out in the 70’s, based on this sci fi book written in the 50’s. it’s about a world where humans live on this planet dominated by giant aliens, and the story follows one human named Terr.
it’s awesome and if you’re into animation this movie is for you. i had to watch it two times for it to really click for me, the first watch i was too distracted by the music and the animation to really understand what was going on.
there is some nudity (female alien’s boobs out the entire time) but like it’s just to show that the world has no relation to human culture. the fashion outfits are so weird and i love them, and the movie is a very obvious allegory once you finish it. the soundtrack is fucking awesome, i beg y’all to give this movie a chance. i’m not sure if it’s popular or not in france but i certainly had never heard of it. it’s such a hidden gem!
Jan 22, 2025
Artisans‘ work being weaned out due to subdividing their work to less expensive and unskilled labourers is the biggest travesty we have made in the modern age. Where factories mass producing materials to meet the increasing demand for faster results pushed aside all beauty of the industrial world.
We will never get buildings like the Notre-Dame de Reims, or St. Vitus Cathedral, or even the Burgos Cathedral because we no longer pay people for their skills. We no longer the beauty of creativity, such as the art of staining-glass to then create beautiful window art that would hang high and filter through sunlight in the most colourful glorious way for further generations to come to also stand in awe and admire the intricate pictures made from glass. Or even stone masons, who have the ability to create life within an inanimate object with intricate designs, to forever line marbled walls.
We have lost the beauty and art of gothic structures to high rise buildings and basic 4-walled houses made of plaster and fibre-glass because we no longer value art as well as an individual‘s skills. I’m mad.
Jan 20, 2025
