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on the cusp of it’s 30th birthday, i feel the need to talk about post. bjork was always so ahead of her time, truly. post was so… perfect. it is truly one of my favorite albums of all time— army of me is one of my favorite album openers of all time, and i think it establishes a perfect direction for post. bjork has the “weird girl” voice and singing style with the backing tracks of a massive attack or portishead song, a sort of saccharine-sweet sexy trip-hop 90s goodness. (although, the orchestral backing of you’ve been flirting again and it’s oh so quiet are VERY kate.) in my brain, bjork and kate have always been two sides of the same coin— the proto lorde and charli
Jun 7, 2025
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i feel so mature. her lyric "i am a fountain of blood, in the shape of a girl" wont leave my mind, god, its stuck in my ears like wax. and while making dinner tonight, i started to cry as i listened to 'it's oh so quiet' because it felt like a love letter to music itself, but also to the experience of falling in love, which we so childishly continue to do, in spite of it all. it was just so beautiful. i felt overwhelmed with the outpouring of love from it. it feels very much like an homage to sinatra and the crescendos that are sewn into songs from that era, of croons and blue moons. i adore that. and don't get me started on big time sensuality...
Apr 22, 2024
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the way i could write a world-changing 33 1/3 about this album!!! oh my goodness. (this is the kind of album you write after achieving meteoric pop success if you are a serious person, in case any inescapably famous singer-songwriters are taking notes.)
but for real -- this album is at once a perfectly-preserved late 90s time capsule (neurotic, stylish, a hint of a sneer, but real hope underwriting it all) and also secretly about us, right now, in the year of our lord 2024. it's fierce and smart and darkly hilarious. it's about going to therapy and getting your dad to go to therapy, and then feeling weird imagining the kind of dark shit your dad must be working through in therapy. it’s about trying to search for the divine while watching a bunch of idiot rich people get influenced into paying $2000 for like past life regression readings or whatever and feeling weird about the idea that they’re searching for the same divine you are, because if they’re looking for it too then it can’t possibly be the real thing, can it? it’s about being the bright young thing who wrote jagged little pill and suddenly finding all of your interpersonal relationships totally unworkable because everybody is too blinded by the brightness of the young thing who wrote jagged little pill to let you also be a human being. it’s about feeling so old already at 24 and looking back on your teenage self at a tender distance as if those days were a lifetime ago, as if you’re actually any wiser now. it’s about wondering if anything you will ever do is ever, ever going to be good enough. alanis’s lyrics here are biting and precocious and the songs are just so chatty (witness “front row” in which she layers four entire extra verses behind the chorus, effectively writing a whole bonus song because the situation is just too complicated to explain in four minutes) and they’re talking about all the same things we talk about now, in the same way we talk about them now, except without all the self-serious posturing so many of our contemporary songwriters fall prey to. (“the couch” is somehow both the most earnest and the least corny song anybody has ever written about therapy.) i know this album must have hit properly when it came out because it was the only thing my mom played in our house for the entire calendar year of 1999, but it feels so preternaturally tailor-made for the moment we’re in now that i can’t believe it hasn’t had one of those improbable tiktok renaissances or whatever that seem to keep happening. highly recommend a revisit or a first acquaintance if you haven’t made one.
Feb 6, 2024
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I have been going back to Björk’s old music and she is such a visionary. Listening to mouths cradle right now and it’s so stereo and amazing.
Apr 16, 2024
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and liberation to all, of course
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all of mansour’s works are gorgeous and so beautifully representative of the palestinian condition (pre and post-intifada) but there’s something about 1985’s ”hope” that’s always stuck with me, much like 1993’s “the nazarene” (also attached). i cannot recommend looking further into mansour’s works enough. follow him on instagram @/sliman.mansour 🕊️
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