Kujira

These reviews have my excitement level through the roof. Some statements that are doing it for me: "she transports the listener into a nightmare-daydream...with this album, she’s doing something more akin to what great photographers do, which is capturing, sharing, and allowing us to decide for ourselves...another sonically cohesive record, the thread that ties this package together is the exploration of American melancholia." "the album is a Russian doll, and the first track is only the first layer. For the first 20 minutes, we’re indulged with a string of poignant orchestral tracks...then along comes ‘Judah Smith Interlude’, and everything changes. Suddenly we’re being sucker-punched by ‘Candy Necklace...diverse, nuanced and interrogative, it reminds us that mainstream pop doesn’t have to be apathetic and easily digestible. It can also be conceptual, exploratory and multifaceted."

For me it definitely has the potential: my current top three are NFR, Honeymoon, and Ultraviolence, but I feel this will bump Ultraviolence.

((by way of explanation: I was a casual listener of BTD, Paradise, and UV, skipped Honeymoon and LFL, then became a huge fan when NFR came out and have recently went back to listen to what I missed)) 1 NFR 2 Honeymoon 3 Ultraviolence 4 Chemtrails Over The Country Club 5 Lust For Life 6 Paradise 7 Blue Banisters 8 Born To Die ((I anticipate that Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (based on the two singles and other samples) will, for me, end up placing in the #5-#3 zone))

1 Honeymoon 2 NFR 3 White Dress 4 Ride 5 Cruel World 6 Born To Die 7 Love 8 Text Book

I'm so excited for the narrative journey this album is going to take us on! I know she's downplayed the world-building aspects of this latest work, but I just take that to mean she's established the world already in her body of work and now she can focus on the ideas and messaging! I'm already seeing the threads like how in DYK... she talks about "love me until I love myself" and it's kind of this idea (I feel anyway) about the lengths people go to to try to be remembered (and does it pay off? I like how it doesn't resolve that idea!), and then in A&W the "character" has, instead of looking for validation from without, become inward with "it's not about having someone to love me anymore", and yet it's still a destructive path! Sorry I'm just too excited, sorry for the rambling! (I haven't felt a potential A-to-B-to-C journey album from her since NFR and I'm here for it!) EDIT: and I need to know how it all comes together at the Taco Truck *haha*

Wow, this song has really upped my anticipation for the album. I absolutely loved the title track, this song however was very unexpected. These two songs together really makes me feel like we're going to get the progression from NFR that I've been wanting (An NFR-like-album but filtered through a sense of magical realism/surrealism if that makes sense *haha*). (The trajectory of these two tracks feels very much like Chemtrails -> White Dress to me.) It was hard to wait before, but now I can't wait to hear the entire project because I feel like it will be such a journey with vision. EDIT: I've really come to appreciate "Chemtrails" the album for what it ended up being, but the title track and "White Dress" made me think we were going in a different direction which I'm feeling this album is going to deliver on *haha*

Is there usually a timeline for when lyrics are uploaded to a site in the lead-up to a song being released? Or is it pretty much at the same time?

Well thanks all for clearing that up for me *haha* (yeah the 'Cherry' influence is strong now that I look).

I'm afraid to refresh the page in case they go away, it's likely not, but I'm not sure. Someone had updated them in clearly a joke, but now it's updated in a way that could be legit??

Do we think the lyrics on musixmatch now are real?