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Deerhunter “halcyon digest”

By 2010, indie music was looking like it was turning away from a series of regrettable choices; dead bands walking, basically. Then Halcyon Digest came along and reclaimed the joyous nostalgic highlights of the decade that had gone before in a captivating sonic capsule of subdued celebration. This album still reaches out to me from the slumber of an era in tentative transition - a beacon from a pea soup fog. The youthfulness of old was suddenly paired with the magnetism of experimentation and the result was a scintillating salute that tore the banality surrounding it to shreds. It also contains some of frontman Bradford Cox’s best compositions: the molasses memory stick “Earthquake,” the deceptively jaunty “Revival,” the almost-Vampire Weekend old/timeyness of “Helicopter,” Cox’s tribute to the late Jay Reatard “He Would Have Laughed” and the band’s best song and bid for pop greatness, “Desire Lines.” Cox described the LP’s title as “a reference to a collection of fond memories and even invented ones, like my friendship with Ricky Wilson or the fact that I live in an abandoned victorian autoharp factory. The way that we write and rewrite and edit our memories to be a digest version of what we want to remember, and how that's kind of sad." The past is still with us, just in re-remembered and sometimes wholly invented form. A masterpiece that I wish more people immediately tagged as such. 10/10, no notes.

@coreydubrowa

Dec 11, 2024

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dude holy i have not updated this erm sorry

i have ordered a lot of new CDs. to keep this one short, i'm hopefully going to start my own neocities page and link it. ill still write here but I like the idea of my own webpage. could work for a j*b as well. as for music to keep this SHORT before a big blog post soon. All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem this one speaks for itself. i hyped this one up for about a month before I actually listened to it, which was on my birthday for the right time. it's bittersweet. its a dream you don't want to ever leave. it's a party you never want to see go away. and unfortunately we will never Really live that. only want it. one quotable line: "And if the sun comes up, and I still don't wanna stagger home then it's the memory of our betters that are keeping us on our feet" anyways there's a lot more words to go with this song that I just cant write into this one. maybe another time. shoutout sentriescord for hyping this one up. Drinking Age & Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed) - Cameron Winter love takes miles. is already a whole other song that can't be covered here but, WOW. this album has been in my rotation since it's release but it still hasn't failed me. geese too. today / I met who I'm gonna be / From now on / And he's a piece of shit / U R UR ONLY ACHING this is a masterpiece. its beautiful. the subtle tempo changes, the abrupt pause into a synchronized guitar/vox part. how loud it gets. the easing in and out like a wave. the eventual explosion with violins, to a half-time. i changed my life you can too with this song. Front door keys in London, am I alright? Think I'm gonna fake it, one, two, revive Lost some years to talking, now I'm alright Last train out from under, out of my sight two riders down is a whole other song that just. can't be discussed yet. i really love this band. you should too. they need more support, finishing their foreseeable tour only 2 weeks after album release???? guys GO GO GO GO its time to listen to uplifting music this is it. anyways that's it bYE

@sebbspirit

1d ago

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night rally - twin shadow

so technically it’s a mixtape but the way it’s constructed as a mixtape definitely furthers the image & vision of the whole (& what’s the difference between a mixtape & an album these days anyways 🤷‍♀️) . a collection of (previously) unreleased songs & snippets & recordings from 2010-2014 , unearthed & reexamined in a period of rest after the band was involved in a pretty serious bus accident . it was released as a single 43 min track & i love the way it all flows together , with songs & half finished ideas cutting in and out , studio conversations & spoken word segments give it a lived in feel with how they’re processed & edited to fit in the mixtape framework . musically it spans the more dreamy indie pop of his earlier forget work to the early versions of the arena rock grandeur he was striving for on eclipse . highlights for me are the more subdued demo version of the littlest things [(which wouldn’t see a studio release till 2018’s caer) the stripped back arrangement really give his voice centre stage & it’s a beautiful & emotive performance that closes out the project perfectly , crazy [4:58] & the preceding spoken work segment that leads directly into it [4:02] which is a big dramatic hit !, to buffalo [10:31] that features a stunning marriage of acoustic & overdriven electric guitars , & discover me [18:03] a little synthy snippet that’s gone too soon . it’s as perfect for a night drive as the name suggests , almost giving the impression of flipping through the radio dial as you’re speeding down the highway . as a final aside the accompanying tour also had great merch featuring this poster & mesh motocross long sleeves

@seiji

Aug 20, 2024

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fly well, brian wilson

The man responsible for dozens of Teenage Symphonies to God "Sad songs about happy things" (the first time, as a kid, I can recall the sweet/sour combo of melodies that could make you cry attached to songs about endless, bottomless love) I've long since lost track of how many weddings and funerals I've attended that have featured this song; suffice it to say, "a lot." God only knows what we'd been without him 🙏🏻

@coreydubrowa

1d ago

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A PI.FYI MUSIC SHARING MANTRA

Word. 🙏🏻 (and that word is “thanks”)

@coreydubrowa

May 22, 2025

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When your new book is finally available for preorder ❤️

Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here: https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/ The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s. Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha). For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️

@coreydubrowa

Mar 27, 2024