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CAMERON WINTER’S “HEAVY METAL”

Absolutely gorgeous music with lyrics that will rattle and puzzle you. Please for the love of god listen to this album PLEASE.

@wahb

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CAMERON WINTER - HEAVY METAL

December is such a tragically dead month for new releases that it’s a rare gift to get an album this fucking good this late in the year. My friend Marcos sent me a link to Heavy Metal out of the blue a few days after it was released – I don’t always listen to what he sends me, and he knows that, but I’m so glad I went into this with a clear mind and open heart. It’s been ages since a first listen of an album hit me this hard. Lyrically Heavy Metal feels like what I always wanted from Dan Bejar but never quite got, and musically it almost feels like John Cale tried to rerecord Paris 1919 from memory with a single microphone and a cracked Ableton rip. Or something like that? Mostly, it feels like a wholly original statement that can’t be contained, like someone finally letting go of any inhibition and confessing every private insecurity without fear. His lyrics teeter from darkly hilarious (“like Brian Jones I was born to swim”) to bizarrely visceral romanticism (“you were born to break my big hairy football arms/like clean windows kill birds”) while regularly returning to the ultimate questions life has to offer: love, desire, purpose, God, you name it. It’s self deprecating without being self indulgent and immensely wise without ever feeling like an intellectual exercise. It’s an album that feels like too rich of a body of work to even properly engage with on the first several listens. Winter’s emotionality is so deep, so personal and so bizarre that it becomes universal – so relatable yet so exaggerated and disjointed that it borders on psychological horror. I’m going to be picking up on new things within these songs for a long time to come, and I suspect this album will stand out to me as one of the absolute best when I look back at the year. 

@clarke

Dec 30, 2024

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cameron winter new year

Discovering an album that you cannot. stop. listening to at the end of an era (literally, the end of the year) always feel like it holds a deeper meaning or purpose in your life than those you happen upon in the midst of a season. This album found me as I am entering an entire year of being single, an entire year of being out of college, beginning therapy, and beginning a path towards completely changing my life by moving to a new country. Winter's amateur-ish yet incredibly passionate vocals bring life to humorous, hallucinatory, and anecdotal lyrics. On top of this, the instrumentation ranges from folksy to eclectic, reminiscent of post-punk bands like Black Country, New Road, while maintaining a more whimsical air on the project entirely. This album makes me laugh and cry and feel and yearn. Listen to this in 2025 "GOD IS REAL GOD IS REAL IM NOT KIDDING GOD IS ACTUALLY REAL IM NOT KIDDING THIS TIME I THINK GOD IS ACTUALLY FOR REAL GOD IS REAL GOD IS ACTUALLY REAL GOD IS REAL I WOULDNT JOKE ABOUT THIS IM NOT KIDDING THIS TIME" -$0

@emmmmuh

Dec 31, 2024

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Brooklyn pi.fyi meetup — success

florinegrassenhopper riotgrrrl brendanooooo slowdazzle buck_mcgraw and indianjones — we did it. Not only did we successfully meet for drinks, but we also schemed the hostile takeover of this app from tyler tonight. In all seriousness — weird that an app I downloaded in April would make genuinely want to drive back into Brooklyn during end of day traffic for a happy hour. Great app filled with great people.

@marianoleonczik

Jul 20, 2024

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very appreciative of all you on this app

I feel like there’s a special connectivity on this app that I haven’t felt in a long time, maybe since early 2010’s tumblr. The fact that you can’t promote yourself like IG is wonderful. The fact that there isn’t mass video content like Tik Tok is great. It’s not this monetized / paid sponsorship app. People are here because they want to be a part of something with nothing to gain besides friendship. Seeing the URL -> IRL meetups warms my heart so much (waiting for an NYC or Brooklyn meetup). Thanks for your participation on this niche little app. I smile reading all the recs and all the comments and all the asks. Hope we’ll all be here for a long time.

@marianoleonczik

Jun 15, 2024

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Just appreciating your pi.fyi feed

I think a life rule for me is to surround myself with people who know more / are smarter / are cooler than me and just absorb their aura by listening / observing them. It’s made me the incredibly smart / cool person you all know and love. I just never thought I’d feel the same way about URL friends. I’m constantly listening to the songs I see posted here, reading the articles, subbing to newsletters, and googling topics that get tossed onto the feed. It’s nice to know you can become a more rounded person by just absorbing what your mutuals post on here. I’m going to sit on my couch, have a cocktail and digest my lovely feed. Happy Sunday!

@marianoleonczik

Sep 15, 2024