Purpulan

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DeAge™ : 6836 days • Here since 21 september 2007

Slowdive Slowdive

23 oct 23

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And, today, 2023, I am the ultimate expression of historic "Shoegaze"... For the series "My Bloody Valentine" who?! Yes, time can be a gentleman/lady sometimes...

tedua Orange County California

22 sep 23

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With this, I'm as smooth as oil: "Discone," even though, being a boomer, I struggle to keep up with its evolution (I mean Tedua)... Then, Year of Our Lord 2023, I get a "friend" who tells me: "You should listen to the new Jethro Tull, it's a masterpiece!!!" Thank you very much. The only thing I'm sure of is that Tedua devours them alive nowadays.

Slowdive Live @ Ypsigrock - Castelbuono (PA) 11 Agosto 2023

15 sep 23

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Young Fathers yes, cool... Slowdive have done the live tracklist they've been offering for a year now... But I don't give a damn, as a boomer, "Everything is alive" as an album is an absolute spectacle!

Aphex Twin Drukqs

8 dec 18

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"Drukqs" is a masterpiece, period, the entirety of RDJ's knowledge summed up in 2 hours of pure productive "Weltanschauung," almost unrepeatable; the real jokes, if we want to put it that way, are the much-lauded "Selected Ambient Works," which in over 3 hours revolve around a "onfalomaniac" vision devoid of any novelty...

Hüsker Dü New Day Rising

16 sep 17

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And Mr. Grant Hart is no longer replicable, in every sense... Let’s leave: Hüsker Dü - The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill as Mr. Drummer's Testament...

Mogwai Rave Tapes

10 may 14

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Listening to it through headphones, a rather singular novelty seems to stand out in this album; despite the classic minimal yet still "fat" sound layering, they have included a lot of basic guitar "takes" that almost sound acoustic (in short, the "fingerpicking" or the rubbing on the strings is more perceptible than usual)... Anyway, as a non-fan of "Pre Gremlins Glesacni," "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will" had made me rethink them more than necessary... : P

Daughter If You Leave

5 sep 13

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In my humble opinion, a contender for one of the best listens of 2013.

Editors The Weight Of Your Love

5 sep 13

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Actually, on a "semi-coherent" approach level, I quite like them. They've done the "pseudo post-punk" album, the more "arena rock" one, the "synth-retro" reinterpretation, and now the "American style" one (from Neil Young to Springsteen, especially "The National"), and yet they're quite distinguishable... Some saw them as a bad copy of "Interpol," but they've never made 2 identical albums, let alone 5... :D

Depeche Mode Delta Machine

22 mar 13

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Great in intentions, not so convincing in results, but... they are Depeche Mode, 50-somethings who have realized they possess the most incredible "white soul" voice around and have tried to tailor the appropriate sound to it, like a good gang of millionaire comrades from the good old times... HERESY: Production of Justin Timberlake's latest album + Dave Gahan's voice = "Possible Milestone"?!

Six Organs Of Admittance Ascent

4 feb 13

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Ahahah, indeed (for JVD), the closest thing to "SOoA" for me is "Mount Eerie", which is the post-"Microphones" project of Phil Elverum (who, however, uses distorted electric guitar more often), while Psycho, if you've never heard anything about it, goes yes always fishing like "Microphones" on the folk/drone side but accumulating everything in a slightly different way, like a bunch of lo-fi sketches of a few minutes placed together in an almost "Cut-up" style.