Lorde

[mrborntolose 9,967]

ok wait hear me out. smoke and then listen to this this album with headphones. this shit hits so differently when you’re stoned 

[littleredpartydress 49,871]

6 hours ago, mrborntolose said:

 thoughts?

Why has this site rebranded as an insider wtf  

[mrborntolose 9,967]

33 minutes ago, littleredpartydress said:

Why has this site rebranded as an insider wtf  

it threw me off too lmao

[Inferno Euphoria 6,493]

I already have to skip half of this album, so no thanks to the leftovers of this filler filled project  

[house of balloons 12,792]

1 hour ago, mrborntolose said:

ok wait hear me out. smoke and then listen to this this album with headphones. this shit hits so differently when you’re stoned 

yes yes yes yes yes

[Nightmare 9,850]

i relistened to the first half of the album yesterday and it was a lot better than my first listen. this album id a grower i guess

[13beachess 7,614]

About a week later and the album has really grown on me. Enjoying it almost daily. Didn't really like Ocean Feeling at first, but now I think it's... yeah boppy 

[expandableclitoris 9,091]

i dont care what the critics say, this is the AOTY for me 

[alexspears 512]

fallen fruit is a nice song but there's this faint microwave beeping noise at the end of the track that made me anxious

also dominoes is nice too but the police siren EVER so faintly in the beginning is......... anxiety inducing as well lmfao

 

i don't appreciate these real world noises when i'm blasting them in my car. i keep forgetting dominoes has the police siren and i be driving,, looking in my rearview wondering where the fucking lights are gonna be coming from and if i have to get over!!!! dislike it emphatically when artists put sirens in songs lmfao. it just is ugly. don't do it.

 

other than that i'm really having a great time with this album!

[Rorman Nockwell 56,706]

One week on and I think my favourite song is definitely The Path. The lyrics are a serve and I love how it builds towards the end

[Rorman Nockwell 56,706]

13 hours ago, alexspears said:

fallen fruit is a nice song but there's this faint microwave beeping noise at the end of the track that made me anxious

Yeah there's always weird fucking noises when Jack Antonoff is involved and you just have to try to ignore them tbh. I can hear weird and imo unnecessary shit in almost every song and I'm blaming Jack because NFR was like that, too

Like 2:21 in The Path. The fuck is that? A coyote?

[lil aerosol 2,297]

13 hours ago, alexspears said:

fallen fruit is a nice song but there's this faint microwave beeping noise at the end of the track that made me anxious

 

10 minutes ago, Rorman Nockwell said:

Yeah there's always weird fucking noises when Jack Antonoff is involved and you just have to try to ignore them tbh. I can hear weird and imo unnecessary shit in almost every song and I'm blaming Jack because NFR was like that, too

 

Might be reading too much into it but my theory is the electronic presence on Fallen Fruit is symbolic of industrialisation's stain on the planet. It would be in line with the lyrics; the beeping being an intentionally strange and unsettling (all Jack criticism considered, I still don't think him and Ella could sit in the studio and think 'wow this is such a lovely sound!') technological noise that unsettles listeners in the same way the 'ones who came before us' unsettled the Earth. Also I can't remember where but she made a point of the fact that the synth right before 'From the Nissan to the Phantom to the plane' was one of two synths on the record, which makes sense as well because she goes on to mention these machines which have contributed to polluting the planet. And I don't think it's a mistake that the strange synths appear on the most acoustic-y folksy song on the album!

 

But yeah even if that is what the sounds represent, they still don't necessarily sound good lol, kind of like those comedy films that are intentionally/ironically bad but that doesn't make them enjoyable and they are... still bad. I personally don't mind/like the sounds but I can understand why you wouldn't

[tt1pdvinyl 251]

synths >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> acoustic guitars

[Ariel 58]

1 hour ago, tt1pdvinyl said:

synths >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> acoustic guitars

 

I like the record but this is so true!

[Veinsineon 76,791]

Not feeling it. Even the bonus tracks are forgettable to me. This is really sad

[expandableclitoris 9,091]

 

 

0:15 lorde on the best song out of the deluxe tracks

[Furor Poeticus 16,352]

All the Robyn hype I felt only to be disappointed with a pointless spoken outro

[5Rick 2,925]

I tried to listen to the album multiple times, but… it never worked for me. I really don’t like it. The worst thing is this odd feeling of subtle presumption all over the place… and boredom too. I’m sorry, and I hope that the next project will take a different path!

[Furor Poeticus 16,352]

The more I listen to Oceanic Feeling, the more I feel blown away by it.

Truly a career highlight which will sadly get often overlooked, but I won't ever forget it, I'll post about in on LB once a week, post a fragment on my IG story nobody watches, even sing it to my cats in the future 

[expandableclitoris 9,091]

 

 

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The way shes looking a lot like Bjork nowadays...